With a sprawling cloud native ecosystem, security needs to be as scalable as everything else. Hence, the rise of the software bill of materials (SBOM), a systematic accounting for all the software being used in an environment. An SBOM is important because it reveals where all the newly found security holes would be found, and gives the admin a stage for streamlining, if not automating, the remediation process.
Hardened images are the industry’s way of getting ahead of the never-ending river of freshly unrooted security holes by preapplying…
