A company requests a collaboration between the infrastructure and security teams to determine the most...

Containerization is the best answer because it allows applications to run in isolated, lightweight environments without requiring a full operating system instance for each application. Containers reduce dependency conflicts, improve portability, and use fewer compute resources than traditional virtual machines. This helps lower hardware costs while still supporting secure deployment through image hardening, runtime isolation, vulnerability scanning, and controlled registries. Virtualization also reduces physical hardware use, but it is heavier because each VM includes a full guest OS. Infrastructure as code automates deployment but is not itself the application isolation method. Hybrid cloud describes an environment model, not the most direct secure deployment mechanism. Security+ maps containerization to scalable and secure application architecture.