Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

September 2020

Kubernetes Q3-2020: Threats, Exploits and TTPs

Kubernetes has become the world’s most popular container orchestration system and is taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm. At this disruptive moment it’s useful to look back and review the security threats that have evolved in this dynamic landscape. Identifying these threats and exploits and being a proactive learner may save you a lot of time and effort…as well as help you retain your reputation in the long run.

Network Policy with GKE

By default, pods are non-isolated; they accept traffic from any source. The Google GKE solution to this security concern is Network Security Policy that lets developers control network access to their services. Google GKE comes configured with Network Security Policy using Project Calico which can be used to secure your clusters. This class will describe a few use cases for network security policy and a live demo implementing each use case.

How to Secure Mixed Linux/Windows Clusters with Calico Policy

Calico is the only cross-platform CNI and Network Policy engine available today and is currently powers more than 150,000 known clusters across millions of nodes worldwide. Many organizations have .NET and windows workloads that they are or will eventually modernize and deploy to Kubernetes. We have been collaborating with Microsoft and joint customers over the past few years to bring Calico to the Windows platform.

Kubernetes Security - Intrusion Detection and Mitigation

By default, pods are not isolated. This means that malicious actors once inside may wander freely throughout your kubernetes cluster. During this session we’ll discuss the different attack vectors and how to mitigate. Intro to attacking kubernetes and applications Network policies, isolation and quarantining IDS and honeypots concepts

Achieving CI Velocity at Tigera using Semaphore

Tigera serves the networking and policy enforcement needs of more than 150,000 Kubernetes clusters across the globe and supports two product lines: open source Calico, and Calico Enterprise. Our development team is constantly running smoke, system, unit, and functional verification tests, as well as all our E2Es for these products. Our CI pipelines form an extremely important aspect of the overall IT infrastructure and enable us to test our products and catch bugs before release.

Self-Service Network Security for Kubernetes

Learn how to empower your team with safe self-service network security for Kubernetes with Calico Enterprise. What are Calico Enterprise Network Policy Tiers How to use tiers to enable safe self service policy management What are Calico Enterprise Policy impact preview and staged network policies How to enable operations and developers to safely manage Kubernetes network policy How to build a workflow using these tools to safely deliver approved changes to your clusters

The New Model for Network Security: Zero Trust

The old security model, which followed the “trust but verify” method, is broken. That model granted excessive implicit trust that attackers abused, putting the organization at risk from malicious internal actors and allowing unauthorized outsiders wide-reaching access once inside. The new model, Zero Trust networking, presents an approach where the default posture is to deny access.

Mitigating the Risks of Instance Metadata in AWS EKS

Compromising a pod in a Kubernetes cluster can have disastrous consequences on resources in an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) account if access to the Instance Metadata service is not explicitly blocked. The Instance Metadata service is an AWS API listening on a link-local IP address. Only accessible from EC2 instances, it enables the retrieval of metadata that is used to configure or manage an instance.