42Crunch API Security Platform: Protection in Kubernetes

Organizations are constantly striving to find faster ways to innovate and scale. Such efforts have naturally led to the rapid adoption of microservice architectures and Kubernetes as the cloud platform to run them at scale. This modular approach allows developers to decompose complex applications into atomic services owned by smaller teams, integrate them, and scale on the fly – bringing applications to production faster than ever before. The decentralized nature of microservices has led to a proliferation of APIs, which are used by microservices to communicate. Instead of tens, there are hundreds or even thousands of API endpoints that need to be protected. With each individual API becoming a potential target for hackers, attack surfaces are growing exponentially. Enterprises need to build a zero-trust architecture: microservices must not trust any request, even if coming from the service mesh. API security has traditionally been enforced at the edge through a gateway pattern with a set of manually configured static rules and policies, but modern applications have redefined the rules of the game. The vast numbers of microservices and the frequency with which developers are rolling out changes require security to be handled in an automated way and protection to be deployed as a sidecar proxy, together with the microservice through a DevSecOps process that begins at design and extends throughout the entire lifecycle. Traditional processes and solutions no longer work...