Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In December 2022, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) identified exploits against vulnerable public-facing applications as the most common initial attack vector for cybercriminals, followed by attacks on external remote services such as VPNs. According to a study by CrowdStrike, exploit activity targeting cloud apps and assets grew 95% from 2021 to 2022, and instances of threat actors directly targeting cloud apps exploded by 288% during that period.

As you are using OpenShift or are planning to use it for your containerized applications, ensuring robust security is crucial. As you dive deeper and your workloads become more complex, the need for advanced security measures becomes apparent. This is where Calico’s microsegmentation capability helps to achieve tenant and workload isolation. Let’s explore how Calico can be a game-changer in strengthening the security posture of your OpenShift environment.

According to the CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, there was a 95% increase in cloud exploits in 2022, with a three-fold increase in cases involving cloud-conscious threat actors. The cloud is rapidly becoming a major battleground for cyberattacks — and the cost of a breach has never been higher.

Based on the well-known cybersecurity method, “honeypots”, Calico Cloud runtime security approach of Honeypods as decoy pods are designed to attract traffic to them from malicious sources and to detect suspicious activity within a Kubernetes cluster.