The security world prioritizes observability and posture management
2022 TRENDS PREDICTION
Although SASE platforms are taking over, rapid adoption of service mesh, observability, and CSPM technology will finally begin.
While SASE establishes itself as a key component of modern workplace security, numerous other technologies will play key roles in enterprise security.
With centralized and secure access to all the components of a computing ecosystem, companies still need to discover assets and standardize their configurations consistently. There are a few emerging technologies that complement SASE, whether your business uses it to secure microservices, multicloud, or distributed cloud systems.
New solutions emerge to provide uniform security and continuous monitoring cloud services
SASE appears to be the primary focus of most major cybersecurity vendors with existing tools that fit into the SASE framework. However, there’s still innovation emerging in other areas from cloud-native startups and industry leaders alike.
Service mesh is the most apparent technology I see scaling in stride with SASE adoption. These tools help provide blanket security controls and monitoring features for containerized applications and other cloud services.
An AWS App Mesh reviewer says:
“AWS App Mesh helps me to feel the smooth experience of application-level networking. AWS App Mesh provides every kind of service like consistent visibility, traffic controls, high-availability of your applications. It allows us to quickly pinpoint the exact location of errors.”
Numerous service mesh vendor investments in 2021 indicate major interest in the emerging technology. This is likely due to service mesh’s inherent ability to unify security controls over disparate cloud assets.
Bonus trend: Adaptive containerization is still in its infancy but an intriguing prospect for future application security tools. Research suggests container resources can be programmed to adapt resource allocation to reduce costs while ensuring service availability.
Observability solutions provide key monitoring capabilities that will prove entirely necessary for distributed cloud ecosystems. These platforms monitor dozens of applications, services, hardware components, and most importantly, containers.
Observability solutions will often play a more significant part when hardware or IoT devices are integrated. Whether done through a service mesh or observability solution, these two tools will power most of a distributed cloud ecosystem's asset observability.
Bonus trend: Time series databases are essential for securely monitoring and managing distributed cloud environments. Time series data help tie monitoring technologies to the various incident response tools required to update changes as they arise.
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) software is the next evolution of vulnerability management technology for the cloud-native world. They combine cloud compliance management and vulnerability risk analysis functions and operate across highly complex computing systems.
These solutions continuously monitor networks, workloads, APIs, and other assets for misconfigurations. The technology has emerged as companies have largely only themselves to blame since virtually all cloud infrastructure breaches result from customer configurations.
Bonus trend: Digital supply-chain security will complement CSPM tools, constantly tracking tools and their vulnerabilities across the application’s integrations and lifecycle. These tools will provide additional risk assessment features to prevent the next Solar Winds security incident.
Security solutions are evolving on many fronts
These are just three major emerging markets in the security industry. DevSecOps and privacy enhancing technologies are also making great strides in securing applications and ensuring user information is protected.
As these technologies continue to evolve, check back for the latest g2 analyst opinions on the future of B2B software.
