Shifting Security Left with F5 NGINX App Protect on Amazon EKS According to The State of Application Strategy in 2022 report from F5, digital transformation in the enterprise continues to accelerate globally. Most enterprises deploy between 200 and 1,000 apps spanning across multiple cloud zones, with today’s apps moving from monolithic to modern distributed architectures. Kubernetes first hit the tech scene for mainstream use in 2016, a mere six years ago. Yet today more than 75% of organizations world‑wide run containerized applications in production, up 30% from 2019. One critical issue in Kubernetes environments, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), is security. All too often security is “bolted on” at the end of the app development process, and sometimes not even until after a containerized application is already up and running. The current wave of digital transformation, accelerated by the COVID‑19 pandemic, has forced many businesses to [ more… ]