DevOps and Kubernetes enable organizations to “go with security,” adding security to the code instead of on top of it. In other words, security is built-in rather than bolted on.

This is one of the aspects of security in the DevOps world with a Kubernetes system that Ali Golshan, co-founder and CTO of StackRox, explained during this exclusive interview with Alan Shimel, Media Ops CEO and editor in chief. The other aspect is security has become continuous instead of snapshots, which provides “a lot more visibility into various stages, various deployments, as well as running environments,” he said.

During the interview, he explored containers, orchestrations, Kubernetes and service mesh.

“Leveraging this cloud-native infrastructure, Kube and service mesh the right way reduces your dependency on third-party tools, allows you to hand off things you typically handed off to vendors and does that inside your infrastructure, which makes it actually more secure and highly scalable,” said Golshan. “You can automate that and reduce your lock-in and your sort of dependency.”

Check out the interview below to learn more about the best and emerging practices in Kubernetes, service mesh and the security feedback loop.

— Veronica Haggar