The cybersecurity landscape is sadly brimming with tools that address narrow, specific problems, leading to a phenomenon known as “Point Solutions.” While these tools can offer precise capabilities, they have significant drawbacks in the modern, cloud-native world. A glut of isolated tools contributes to operational complexity, wasted resources, and missed opportunities for cohesive, unified defense strategies.

To address Sysdig’s 5/5/5 Benchmark, rapid troubleshooting and deep forensic investigation are crucial when a security breach or performance issue arises. While Falco excels at real-time threat detection based on system call activity, Sysdig serves as the go-to tool for post-incident analysis.

In the late 1990s, the rapid expansion of computer networks highlighted the need for affordable network visibility tools. The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) emerged as a significant advancement, enabling packet capture and filtering within the BSD operating system. BPF is the precursor of today’s widely used eBPF, and was originally released together with an accompanying library, libpcap.

One of the big advantages of running your workloads on a managed Kubernetes service like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is that Google ensures your clusters are being deployed and managed following industry best practices. While GKE clusters are incredibly secure and reliable, there is always room for improvement. In this blog, we’re going to describe how you can enhance GKE’s already great security by adding runtime threat detection with Falco.

As digital operations expand, the financial industry is facing heightened regulatory and security demands. With the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) set to take effect in January 2025, financial organizations must now comply with additional rigorous standards for operational resilience and cybersecurity.

The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) recently discovered a global operation, EMERALDWHALE, targeting exposed Git configurations resulting in more than 15,000 cloud service credentials stolen. This campaign used multiple private tools that abused multiple misconfigured web services, allowing attackers to steal credentials, clone private repositories, and extract cloud credentials from their source code. Credentials for over 10,000 private repositories were collected during the operation.

93% of last year’s data breaches began with compromised credentials. Before the cloud, security perimeters were defined by physical walls and network boundaries, but in the cloud, that perimeter has all but dissolved. Consider what happened in November 2023, when a cloud observability vendor found evidence of unauthorized access to its staging environment — an environment that housed customer data and PII.

This is the second episode of the CSI Container series, published and presented at CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024. In this episode, we focus on Kubernetes CSI, how to conduct DFIR activities on K8s and containers, and how to perform static and dynamic analysis. As we covered in the first episode, DFIR refers to the union of Digital Forensics (DF) and Incident Response (IR). We also highlighted how conducting DFIR activities in a container environment differs from the usual DFIR in a host environment.

We know that cloud attacks happen very quickly. Our 2024 global threat year-in-review, the third annual threat report from the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT), revisits the team’s hottest findings from the last 12 months and explores how they relate to the broader cyber threat landscape. This year’s report also includes informed predictions about 2025’s security outlook and potential trends.

In the context of cloud security posture management (CSPM), custom controls are policies or rules that give security teams the flexibility to create and enforce policies. These are needed to manage posture, tailor compliance measures, and detect misconfigurations across infrastructures like Kubernetes, containers, and the cloud.