Many organizations have adopted IP address allowlisting for their corporate cloud applications as an added layer of security. Many sanctioned cloud applications and web services enforce access restrictions based on the source IP address of incoming traffic. To establish a connection with these remote SaaS services, your traffic must originate from a particular IP address that is pre-registered. Any traffic originating from different IP addresses will be denied access by these remote applications.
As you are using OpenShift or are planning to use it for your containerized applications, ensuring robust security is crucial. As you dive deeper and your workloads become more complex, the need for advanced security measures becomes apparent. This is where Calico’s microsegmentation capability helps to achieve tenant and workload isolation. Let’s explore how Calico can be a game-changer in strengthening the security posture of your OpenShift environment.
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Based on the well-known cybersecurity method, “honeypots”, Calico Cloud runtime security approach of Honeypods as decoy pods are designed to attract traffic to them from malicious sources and to detect suspicious activity within a Kubernetes cluster.