When it comes to software container security, there are benefits as well as drawbacks. Here’s what enterprises need to know.

Enterprises and application teams turn to containers to improve agility and increase the scalability of their environments and portability of their applications. But with these benefits come a number of serious security challenges and considerations. While some of the changes containerization brings to security are beneficial, others are a bit thornier. To avoid serious mistakes and data breaches, enterprises must understand how containers affect security and build a strategy to secure them.