Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Kubernetes networking offers incredible power, but scaling that power often transforms a clean architecture into a tangled web of complexity. Managing traffic flow between hundreds of microservices across dozens of namespaces presents a challenge that touches every layer of the organization, from engineers debugging connections to the architects designing for compliance. The solution to these diverging challenges lies in bringing structure and validation to standard Kubernetes networking.

Data Privacy Day, observed each year on January 28, should serve as an important reminder that safeguarding sensitive information is no longer optional. Unfortunately, some consumers and organizations could use the reminder. Data privacy isn’t just a practice for fending off cyberattacks, although that element is important. It is also a critical part of building trust, meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining business continuity.

With organizations collecting and storing massive amounts of personal data these days, much of which people share freely, we need to become better at protecting data on both the storing and sharing side of things. Organizations must have strong data protection measures in place and everyone should start being more digitally mindful when sharing their own personal data. Ultimately, being careful of what we put out there is the best way to reduce cyberattacks and data breaches.

As organizations develop modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies to defend against advanced cyber threats, it’s essential to implement both Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) as part of a defense-in-depth approach. PAM provides granular control and monitoring of privileged accounts at runtime, while IGA ensures appropriate access is approved, governed and reviewed throughout the identity lifecycle.