Securing Docker: The Attack and Defense Way

Containerization is increasing widely with the adoption of Docker for container workloads. It’s always easy to spin a container and start working on it. But wait! Have you ever thought of the security of your container workloads? Did your Docker Container ecosystems can defend themselves against latest sophisticated attacks? Or, you might be relying on legacy security systems to make them do the security work for you. If you are still thinking the same, you need to cope up with the existing solutions since container security concerns impose huge risks to the IT infrastructure. Malwares like Doki and Kinsing have already targeted and exploited vulnerable Docker containers and host systems and there are more attacks to come in future too. In such times, this little book can help you in your quest to understand the Docker Container Attack patterns and to devise the strategy for securing and hardening your container environments with a couple of research articles and a lot of tools and hands-on exercises.