August 1, 2022
This is a guest blog by Ashu Deep Saxena (Senior Practice Lead, Cloud Modernization, Coforge) with inputs from Sandeep Kumar (Lead Solution Architect, Sysdig) and Durgesh Shukla (Sr PMM, Sysdig).
The desire to take advantage of the modern cloud-native paradigm has forced many enterprises to rush to production with Kubernetes and containerized applications. Often, the incorrect expectation with cloud-native adoption is that Ops teams would be able to easily transition their existing security and operational practices, workflows and tooling to these new software development platforms and everything would still work as before. However, containers and microservices add new abstractions that make it very hard to have visibility of what is going on in your applications. The ephemeral nature of containers combined with the black-box nature of the available tools means that deep data for analyzing security incidents, compliance violations, or performance issues become incredibly hard to obtain.
There has been great progress made in the information technology world over the last few years. But with all the technological advancements, threats with regard to cybersecurity and information security have also grown exponentially. They have rightfully become key discussion items for CIOs and IT leaders, and here are some examples of why:
Hence, there is an acute need for better tools that are able to cope with the complexities and risks associated with the changed security, compliance and monitoring requirements of consumers.
Coforge (formerly NIIT Technologies) has strong roots in technology education and was in fact founded as an IT Training company in 1981. NIIT Limited expanded its services within a few years to include consulting, software solutions and business process outsourcing. Coforge is uniquely positioned to assist customers adopting cloud and containers:
To ensure that customers get the best-of-breed solutions, Coforge evaluates multiple tools and then helps customers with services to adopt and operate these tools. As an example, for cloud security and visibility, it based its tool evaluation on subjective and weighted criteria such as:
Eventually, after multiple proofs-of-concept studies, Coforge decided to adopt Sysdig to power its container solutions and services, with some of the important reasons highlighted below:
Coforge and Sysdig have a strategic partnership rooted in a common value set of enabling customer success in the new cloud-native paradigm. This partnership is designed to help customers easily migrate workflows and transition to applications built on top of container and cloud services.Coforge’s container services help customers across all the stages of their container adoption journey. This includes adoption strategy & assessment, design & implementation of different container platforms, deployment/migration & management of applications in containers. With Coforge’s deep domain expertise and capabilities in cloud, infrastructure & application modernization backed by Sysdig’s security and monitoring prowess, customers can rest assured that a best-in-class solution is being tailored to their unique observability, security, and compliance needs. Coforge has further invested to build a team of cloud security experts with a deep understanding of the cloud-native ecosystem and Sysdig platform to help customers.
Some of the best features of the Sysdig platform to reiterate include the ability to:
Together, Sysdig and Coforge enable customers to take advantage of the things the cloud is optimized to do– develop and deliver rapidly, innovate continuously, scale business and technology operations, trade capital expenses for operational ones and do it all with the necessary security and visibility needed to protect users, data, and resources.