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NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and Pod Security

I previously asked (and answered) the question, What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care? I suggested that the first step to compliance is to understand your Kubernetes environment ...
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What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care?

The NSA released its Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines almost a year ago and made updates to it this March. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of what Kubernetes users ...
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NSA Security Best Practices for Kubernetes

In this series, I’ve outlined why every organization should care about the NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and examined different areas of the guidelines. What you may suspect is that most of the ...
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NSA Wants Strong Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization 

When I want to get into my phone, I use a passcode or face ID to authenticate. When I want to get into my home, I use a key because no person ...
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The NSA Wants the Network Locked Down

The NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guide offers a lot of advice on implementing the best defense-in-depth approach to your workloads. Part of that guide outlines how Kubernetes users can secure and harden the ...
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Hardening Kubernetes Beyond NSA, CISA Guidance

Information security and data privacy in the cloud has an abysmal track record. Hardly a week goes by without some major cloud-powered security-related incident making the news. We, as a community, need ...
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Kubernetes: The Silent Hero of Our Daily Digital Dependence

What most people don't realize is that Kubernetes is the backbone of the digital services and apps we rely on every day ...
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How to Successfully Migrate to Kubernetes

When you’re undertaking a Kubernetes migration, there are several ways for platform engineers to minimize potential risks and enable development teams from the beginning ...
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Best of 2022: Hardening Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Environments

As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Kubernetes ...
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Best of 2022: 4 Best Practices for Kubernetes Reliability

As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. One ...