Ask most DevOps engineers about the benefits of containers and microservices, and their responses will center on the agility, modularity and scalability that microservices-based architectures provide. But there is another crucial and oft-overlooked advantage of migrating to containers and microservices: Security. Containers offer a number of opportunities for building and deploying more secure applications and ...

Our new guide, Twistlock’s Guide to HIPAA Compliance for Containers, will help you to achieve compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule for containerized workloads. In health care, there is a class of sensitive data known as electronic personal health information, or ePHI. Any covered entity, business associate, or subcontractor that creates, receives, maintains, or transmits ...

With the prevalence of electronic payments nearly every organization is impacted by Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements. However, there’s very little guidance on how to run containers in a manner that’s compliant with these requirements. The Twistlock Guide to PCI Compliance for Containers breaks down the PCI DSS requirements section by ...

This guide, as part of the Twistlock Container Security How-To Guides series, describes the concrete steps that you can follow to configure a Linux host to run Docker containers securely. Key steps highlighted in this guide include: How to start with a minimal installation of the OS and how to selectively add the services needed ...