Running applications in containers is increasingly popular, but whilst it offers benefits in terms of the flexibility to run apps anywhere, it raises fresh challenges for keeping them secure. A new set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments is being launched by security solutions company Twistlock. Twistlock Runtime is fully automated and designed to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks -- including APTs and zero-day exploits. It uses a 'declarative' security model to build runtime protection. It performs static and dynamic analysis of container images and derives a set of declarative 'DNA' profiles for the containers.… [Continue Reading]