Author Archives: Preeti Rathi

Much has been written about how containers are porous – that they are not as secure as virtual machines. Infact, a while ago, I penned a blog about how security is the weakest area of containers. What a difference a few months have made – Docker, CoreOS and quite a few other groups have been […]

Container security is not a well-solved problem today. While containers can isolate several areas of the underlying host from the containerized application, it is well known that the isolation is not as robust as that offered by virtual machines. Today it is still quite unclear as to how secure containers really are. An example that underlines […]