The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the initial public draft of an internal report on creating comprehensive data protection strategies for cloud-native applications.
The NIST Internal Report 8505, titled “A Data Protection Approach for Cloud-Native Applications,” outlines a framework for creating effective data protection strategies to ensure the security of information stored in cloud-native applications by using WebAssembly’s capabilities, the agency said Friday.
WebAssembly is a platform-agnostic binary instruction format with compute and traffic processing capabilities that can execute codes at native speed in a fault-tolerant manner.
According to the IR, a cloud-native environment requires a comprehensive strategy to analyze and categorize data access and leakage as data moves across various network protocols.
NIST said it is essential to develop a data categorization strategy that performs real-time analysis of data in transit.
