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Are you looking to validate if your cloud services are resilient and adequately secured? Consider the following five cloud security benchmarks to assess your organization’s cloud deployments. CISOs know that their security programs should be data-driven and that metrics are integral to communicating the status of security capabilities to organizational stakeholders, including the executive leadership team and the board of directors.

DevOps engineers must handle secrets with care. In this series, we summarize best practices for leveraging secrets with your everyday tools.

Container security has experienced significant transformation over the past decade. From the emergence of foundational tools like Docker to the maturation of orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, the container security landscape looks different than it did even a few years ago. With Gartner predicting 95% of organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2028, it’s clear that container security is going to be a key priority for most organizations moving forward.

On April 3, 2025, the National Security Agency and other partner agencies released a critical advisory about DNS and Fast Flux. They even called it a national security threat due to the potential dangers involved. In this article, we’ll go over what Fast Flux is and how Sysdig Secure detects this attack technique. We’ll also cover gathering potential Fast Flux domain names from VirusTotal.

The cloud has become the hub of modern data traffic. It offers organizations of all sizes unprecedented speed, flexibility, and countless collaboration options. However, cybercriminals also know how to exploit the power of the cloud for their own purposes, which is why proven security solutions—and service providers who can implement them quickly and in a customized manner—are in high demand.

It’s been just over a year since open source Falco graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) during KubeCon EU 2024, and the momentum hasn’t slowed down. From advancements in real-time threat response and expanded audit event collection across cloud-native environments, to reaching 150 million downloads and even new open-source technologies like Stratoshark being built on Falco’s libraries, the project continues to evolve rapidly.

Containerization, a form of lightweight virtualization, lets applications inhabit their own self-contained environments. Each container packages everything an application needs to run – code, runtime, libraries – keeping it neatly separated from everything else. This isolation is a big deal because it means a problem in one container won’t bring down the whole environment.

We would like to recognize Amit Serper, Travis Lowe, Tony Gore, Adrian Godoy, Mihai Vasilescu, Suraj Sahu, Pablo Ramos, Raj Jammalamadaka, Lacie Griffin, and Josh Grunzweig for their contributions in authoring this publication. CrowdStrike is committed to protecting our customers from the latest disclosed vulnerabilities. We are actively monitoring activity surrounding “IngressNightmare,” the name given to recently identified vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes (K8s) ingress-nginx controller.

Kubernetes powers modern application deployments, yet safeguarding its secrets remains a formidable challenge. In a 2024 report, IBM estimated that 16% of data breaches stemmed from compromised credentials, resulting in significant financial losses. The recent attack involving a stolen API key at the U.S. Treasury Department highlights the vulnerability of even well-protected systems.