Kubernetes security
Preparing Your Incident Response Team for Container Incidents
The use of containers—and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes—is increasing rapidly around the globe. Analysts predict that by 2023, more than 70% of global organizations will be running more than two containerized applications ...
Best of 2021 – 7 Principles of DevSecOps With Kubernetes
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. In ...
Best of 2021 – How Not To Use Kubernetes: 5 Failure Stories
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. I ...
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 ...
Misconfigured Argo Workflows Expose K8s to Attack
With the use of Kubernetes growing rapidly among enterprises comes increased opportunities for attackers to exploit the popular container orchestration platform’s weaknesses in security. This week, security specialist Intezer has detected a ...
Insecure Defaults Remain a Threat for Kubernetes
Secure-by-default settings make it easier (and safer) to onboard cloud-native technologies. And, thankfully, most default security profiles and configurations are, often, quite solid. Take Istio, which is secure by default and built ...
K8s and Cloud Security: Compliance Just Ain’t Enough
Over just two years, breaches caused by cloud misconfigurations exposed 33.5 billion records and generated an estimated $5 trillion in damages. Amid rising cyberattacks and novel vulnerabilities, overlooking cloud and K8s security ...
Tigera Cloudifies Calico to Secure, Monitor Kubernetes
Tigera today launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of a platform for monitoring and securing Kubernetes environments based on its open source Project Calico network virtualization software. Previously, the company made available an ...
Portshift Secures Kubernetes APIs
Portshift today unveiled an extension to its lineup of container security offerings to secure Kubernetes application programming interfaces (APIs). Zohar Kaufman, vice president of research and development for Portshift, says Extended Kubernetes ...
VMware Acquires Octarine to Advance Kubernetes Security
VMware this week announced its intent to acquire Octarine, a provider of a namesake cybersecurity framework based on a service mesh for Kubernetes clusters. The Octarine service mesh not only segments network ...