24th MEB Conference - Budapest, 24.04.2026

Serverless computing is revolutionizing cybersecurity risk management with the introduction of new features—ephemeral functions, event-driven execution, and shared responsibility—that upend traditional security practices. In serverless environments, individual functions execute for a brief time to complete targeted tasks before they become non-existent, meaning security controls must quickly react to protect these fleeting processes rather than watch over static, long-lived systems. Additionally, since serverless applications react dynamically to events like user behavior or data triggers, they bring new vulnerabilities that require innovative threat detection and mitigation techniques. The shared responsibility model further complicates the matter by dividing security roles between cloud providers who secure the underlying infrastructure, and organizations who must protect and manage their own code and configurations. This work explores these singular attributes to illustrate how conventional security methodologies need to be reassessed and how more dynamic, recent models can protect against the novel types of attacks native to this adaptive computing paradigm.