There is no shortage of options when it comes to what firewall and VPN appliances are available for data centers or cloud environments. The important factor when it comes to choosing them isn't necessarily the security product, but the given deployment and the features available (including access controls, authentication, and authorization ability). Ensuring these are built into the application layer rather than relying solely on network security is critical. An application-level security implementation makes access control scalable, portable, and immutable. Access can then be governed based on the real identity of an application or (micro)service rather than on human provisioning.
By our definition, a cloud native application is a secured application. A secured system by logical extension must be a reliable system. Application code is packaged and...
