Serverless apps are deployed over a cloud platform and are designed to use only the amount of computing resources needed to carry out a task. Because they are small, fast and have short lifespans, serverless apps pose challenges to security teams. The cybersecurity industry is still trying to come to grips with containers, those small, easy-to-deployed, pre-built little bundles of applications. McAfee: Serverless Apps are among the top five new threats of 2018. Since the apps naturally scale and billing is based on traffic, a DDoS attack can hit the bottom line.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3277965/cloud-functions-present-new-security-challenges.html