Alert Logic takes aim at container security problems with latest offering

If your organisation has been considering containers, then security concerns will almost certainly be paramount. Alert Logic, an information security provider, thinks it may have the answer. The company has launched what is claimed to be the industry’s first intrusion detection system for containers which aims to ‘bring organisations powerful new capabilities to inspect network traffic for malicious activity targeting containers’, in the company’s words. As Alert Logic is an AWS partner, this release, as part of the company’s Cloud Defender and Threat Manager solutions, focuses on containers deployed on AWS. This does of course include Docker, Kubernetes and CoreOS, as well as Amazon’s Elastic Container Service. The product aims to snaffle malicious activity at the network layer providing greater visibility into container attacks. According to 451 Research, organisations are delaying container adoption because of security concerns, despite a global market which could top $4 billion by 2022.