Kubernetes (K8s) and its expansive ecosystem of cloud-native technologies have revolutionized the way applications are built and run. While the adoption of Kubernetes has opened the door to big gains in business agility, scalability and efficiency, it also introduces complex new security challenges that affect platform engineers and developers alike.
Modern SaaS applications power the world’s most iconic businesses, and with hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue at stake, speed to market without compromising secure operation and access control is essential. Authorization for multi-tenant SaaS applications enables end-users to control ‘who’ and ‘what’ can interact with the application.
Container-based web applications built on microservices architecture, whether public-facing or internal, are critical to businesses. This new class of applications is commonly referred to as cloud-native applications. Read on to find out why traditional WAFs are no longer enough to protect cloud-native applications and how Calico’s new workload-centric WAF solves this problem.
When running containers in a Kubernetes cluster, trusting the images you deploy is key to enforce security. The use of mutable images represents a risk to the secure Kubernetes deployment and highlights the importance of having a reliable mechanism to ensure you run what you expect. In this blog, you will learn step-by-step how to implement a secure Kubernetes deployment.
Kubescape is a Kubernetes open-source platform providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer, and image vulnerabilities scanning.
Kubernetes (K8s) has achieved undeniable mainstream status, with 96% of organizations currently evaluating or already using this technology, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This popularity also brings growing scrutiny over Kubernetes compliance standards and audits, in light of how Kubernetes and cloud native technologies demand a very different approach to security.
There are unquestionable advantages to cloud native technologies, but significant challenges as well. Case in point: microservices authorization. Microservices have, for many companies, become the architecture of choice for cloud native apps — whether for migrating legacy apps or building new cloud native applications.
You might think that your metrics are harmless from a security point of view. Well, that’s not true, and in this talk at KubeCon Valencia 2022, we share the risk of exposed Prometheus server and how attackers use this information to successfully access a Kubernetes cluster. The slides are available here, and we also collected some mentions in social media and blogs and the feedback was very positive: It was our first time as speakers at KubeCon and expectations were really high.
Why settle for less! The challenge of manually dealing with self-hosting a product like Velero or Kasten on dozens of clusters and multiple clouds, and then trying to migrate data across different accounts and even different clouds is very different from dealing with a single cluster and a single cloud environment. CloudCasa provides a guided workflow for cross-account and cross-cluster Kubernetes restores in Amazon EKS from an intuitive GUI.
