The rise of cloud-native applications is forcing many organizations to prioritize new features and functionalities over security. Modern applications are mostly microservices-based. Each individual microservice can scale independently of the others. But each microservice instance or in the worst case, group of similar instances on a single host or pod needs to be treated like an application to ensure security. The bad guys and even paying customers are well known for doing things to applications that developers simply didn’t anticipate.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/why-cloud-native-applications-need-cloud-native-security