By Fei Huang, Co-Founder and CEO, NeuVector As if it wasn’t already bad enough, the ransomware attacks on MongoDB users continue to spread and have now targeted exposed Elasticsearch clusters. Like MongoDB, Elasticsearch is one of the most popular containerized applications and is widely used all over the world in datacenters. In these Elasticsearch ransomware attacks, the attackers wipe out user …
If there’s any lesson to be taken away from the recent DDoS attack on Dyn it’s that we are all under the constant threat of attack no matter how small or how big we are. Even the largest, most heavily defended service providers can be hacked. We probably hear about less than 1% of all the successful and unsuccessful attempts because …
By Fei Huang There’s been a lot of recent discussions online about container security, but most have focused on image scanning or the host and OS security. The lack of enterprise security tools for containers has caused people to focus too narrowly. It’s like the old saying “when all I have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Security …