Securing Hybrid Cloud Workloads on Google Anthos

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Securing Hybrid Cloud Workloads on Google Anthos

There are major shifts happening around container technology. We have seen ongoing improvements in automation tooling and changes as fully containerized workloads move into production. Companies are often running more than one production Kubernetes cluster at a time. DevOps and operations teams, subsequently, have an additional burden because they must control and manage these clusters, …

SECURITY RESEARCH

CVE-2019-11246: Another kubectl Path Traversal Vulnerability Disclosed

A new vulnerability (CVE-2019-11246) was disclosed that enables path traversal in kubectl, the popular command line interface for running commands on Kubernetes clusters. What’s interesting about this CVE is that we’ve already seen two previous variations of the same vulnerability disclosed and patched. Read on to learn how that happened.

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes RBAC: Asking for Forgiveness or Getting Permission

This blog is dedicated to my Mum. She was a leading psychiatrist who loved learning and traveling. She was a huge inspiration to me. I think she would be proud that I’m pursuing my passion of traveling around the world teaching what I love. I want to start with a quote attributed to another inspiring …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Aqua Operator: Automating Security for Kubernetes

Aqua recently developed a Kubernetes Operator that was successfully tested and validated by Red Hat standards for integration and supportability. Before we tell you about our new OpenShift-certified Operator, let’s get some context about what an Operator is.

SERVERLESS SECURITY

Knative: The Serverless Environment for Kubernetes Fans

Knative is the newest member of serverless environments that is gaining significant interest and generating a great deal of hype in the Kubernetes/Cloud Native community. It’s an open source framework that was designed to enable the development and deployment of container-based serverless applications that are easy to transport between cloud providers.

Security Configuration Benchmarks for Kubernetes

When you’re running Kubernetes, how do you know whether it’s configured securely? Kubernetes is a complex system, with several control plane components, each of which has numerous configuration parameters. In some cases, it’s clear that a parameter will have an impact on Kubernetes security – for example, providing keys and certificates for setting up secure …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Istio: Canary Deployments, Dynamic Routing & Tracing

In this series of blog posts we had an introduction to Istio, and an overview of its security features. This post completes the series with a look at how we can leverage Istio’s traffic control features to provide increased observability and control over the operation and deployment of our applications.

Kubernetes Secrets: How to Create, Use, and Secure Them

Kubernetes applications frequently need access to confidential information like API keys or database credentials. Storing this data directly in container images or environment variables is not advisable and can create severe security risks.

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Istio Security: Zero-Trust Networking

This is the second in our series of blog posts on Istio, and will focus on Istio’s security features: what they are, how they work and how they help protect your workloads and your data. Building, deploying and maintaining secure, cloud native software requires multiple overlapping solutions at different stages of the software development lifecycle. …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Severe Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105)

Earlier this week, a severe vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105) was disclosed that allows an unauthenticated user to perform privilege escalation and gain full admin privileges on a cluster. The CVE was given the high severity score of 9.8 (out of 10) and it affects all Kubernetes versions from 1.0 onwards, but fixes are available for recent versions.

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Security for Pivotal PAS and PKS

After we made the Aqua Security Scanner for PCF announcement last spring, we started the process of supporting Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Many Pivotal Cloud Foundry PAS customers have tested PKS and many are in production. Having been on the security infrastructure side of life for a couple decades, this doesn’t surprise me at all because …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Kube-hunter – an open source tool for Kubernetes penetration testing

Aqua released a free tool called kube-hunter to help with Kubernetes Security. You give it the IP or DNS name of your Kubernetes cluster, and kube-hunter probes for security issues – it’s like automated penetration testing.

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