The evolution of application design and cloud-native technologies means that developers can no longer rely on traditional authentication and authorization methods to be effective. While new standards for authentication already exist and are easily implemented, authorization remains a challenge, especially in a fast-paced, dynamic cloud environment. One method of solving this issue is to externalize authorization, allowing policy management to be decoupled from the application itself.

A data and security breach often leads to fines and the loss of customer trust for organizations. An IBM report estimates that a data breach on average costs $4.35 million in 2022, a 2.6% increase from the previous year. The increased concern with data and security breaches — along with the need to address more complicated use cases — reinforces the call for more granular methods of access control.

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine includes a cyberwarfare component with government-supported threat actors and civilian hacktivists taking sides. The goals of disrupting IT infrastructure and utilities have led to a 4-fold increase in DDoS attacks between 4Q21 and 1Q22. Over 150,000 volunteers have joined anti-Russian DDoS campaigns using container images from Docker Hub.

Extortion can simply be defined as “the practice of obtaining benefit through coercion.“ Data and cloud extortion schemes occur when precious data and/or access is stolen by an attacker that promises to restore it through payment or other demands. In this article, we’ll cover some common or uncommon extortion schemes, and highlight ways to detect and avoid falling prey to demands.

The Kubernetes community is ready for the last release of 2022—version 1.26. Since its beginning, Kubernetes has been a place of constant change and improvement. The platform evolves and matures with every new API change and bug fix. In this release, there are 38 tracked enhancements in addition to a large number of bug fixes. In this article, we will focus on some highlighted enhancements, important deprecations, and removals so that you can be confident before upgrading your clusters.

All the main K8s vulnerabilities from 2022 consolidated into one article. Put together by Ben Hirschberg, founder of ARMO, the makers of Kubescape. During 2022, Kubernetes continued to cement itself as a critical infrastructure component in the modern software stack. From small to large organizations, it has become a widely popular choice. For obvious reasons, this shift made Kubernetes more susceptible to attacks. But this is not the end of it.

Supply Chain attacks are not new, but this past year they received much more attention due to high profile vulnerabilities in popular dependencies. Generally, the focus has been on the dependency attack vector. This is when source code of a dependency or product is modified by a malicious actor in order to compromise anyone who uses it in their own software.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) aims to automate the identification and remediation of risks across your entire cloud infrastructure. A core requirement of the CSPM framework is the need to enforce a principle of least privilege. There are certain overlaps with Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) solutions. CIEM is a newer categorization that came after CSPM.