The Rise of Serverless Security: Protecting Function-as-a-Service Architectures
Serverless computing has revolutionized application development by abstracting infrastructure management and enabling event-driven architectures. However, this abstraction introduces novel security challenges that traditional security models don’t address. As organizations increasingly adopt function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms, understanding and implementing serverless-specific security practices becomes critical for maintaining application protection. The Serverless Security Paradigm Shift Traditional application security assumes persistent, long-running servers with defined network perimeters. Serverless architectures shatter these assumptions, creating ephemeral compute environments that scale dynamically based on event triggers. ...