Securing Your Future in 2024: Grabbing a Piece of the K8s Security Pie

Now is the time for security practitioners to work on their future.

Last year was rough, with 50% more tech layoffs in 2023 than in 2022. The security function was anything but immune from the trend — recent studies show that, by the middle of 2023, 22% of security professionals had been in organizations where security talent was cut.

And, if they had been in companies where reductions in force took place, studies show that the talented security practitioners left were less satisfied in their jobs and roles. Now is the time for cyber professionals to secure their future, and Kubernetes security is the secret weapon that can make you invaluable.
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Kubernetes Security Makes Your Team Invaluable

Making yourself invaluable means associating your skillset with the technology that will make or break the company’s revenue stream. Companies like Netflix, Domino’s Pizza, Slack, Shopify and the New York Times all run their digital apps in a Kubernetes environment.

The fastest-growing part of IBM is OpenShift, Red Hat’s managed Kubernetes platform. Kubernetes migration has been a top priority for the engineering organization for years, and all of this is due to the fact that Kubernetes allows companies to innovate faster, developing applications and new features at a rate that was impossible with monolithic approaches to
application development.

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Build Credibility with Your Most Influential Peers

Many of your most influential peers are those who are actively building out your Kubernetes stack in engineering. If you can successfully, and credibly, work with them as a partner on Kubernetes security, to them you will be nothing short of the “next gen” security team.