http://www.csoonline.com/article/2984543/vulnerabilities/as-containers-take-off-so-do-security-concerns.html
By Maria Korolov
CSO
Sep 17, 2015
Containers offer a quick and easy way to package up applications and all
their dependencies, and are popular with testing and development.
According to a recent survey sponsored by container data management
company Cluster HQ, 73 percent of enterprises are currently using
containers for development and testing, but only 39 percent are using them
in a production environment.
But this is changing, with 65 percent saying that they plan to use
containers in production in the next 12 months, and cited security as
their biggest worry. According to the survey, just over 60 percent said
that security was either a major or a moderate barrier to adoption.
Containers can be run within virtual machines or on traditional servers.
The idea is somewhat similar to that of a virtual machine itself, except
that while a virtual machine includes a full copy of the operating system,
a container does not, making them faster and easier to load up.
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