Source: thenewstack.io
How WebAssembly Offers Secure Development through Sandboxing
WebAssembly is surging in popularity — a recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2022/ found that 37% of organizations have already deployed applications leveraging the technology. Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall told The New Stack that it makes sense to see WebAssembly as the world’s smallest virtual machine.
“Your WebAssembly process can’t access any files or folders or devices without being explicitly granted permission to do so…
it just means that with WebAssembly, you have a good foundation and more ways to leverage it,” Chang said.
Over time, Butcher suggested, the range of WebAssembly runtimes will likely narrow and the ones most closely focused on security will survive.
“Your WebAssembly process can’t access any files or folders or devices without being explicitly granted permission to do so…
it just means that with WebAssembly, you have a good foundation and more ways to leverage it,” Chang said.
Over time, Butcher suggested, the range of WebAssembly runtimes will likely narrow and the ones most closely focused on security will survive.
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