Docker Gets Serious About Security
Two months after Docker brings in new faces to lead security efforts, a new benchmark for securing Docker container deployments debuts.
In March of this year, Nathan McCauley and Diogo Monica joined Docker Inc. to lead security efforts for the container virtualization vendor. Now, just over two months later, the first fruits of McCauley and Monica's efforts are becoming apparent with a new Center for Internet Security benchmark report for the Docker Engine 1.6.
McCauley together with VMware, Rakuten, Cognitive Scale and International Securities Exchange worked with the nonprofit Center for Internet Security to build the benchmark, which defines best practices for the safe and secure deployment of the Docker Engine as of the 1.6 release. Docker Engine is the core open-source container virtualization component for Docker, and the 1.6 release debuted on April 16, providing new labeling capabilities for virtualization container applications.
