Manifesto: A New Open Source Container Metadata Tool

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Manifesto: A New Open Source Container Metadata Tool

Here at Aqua Security, we recently released an open source project to help container users manage the metadata associated with their container images. It’s called Manifesto, and it stores free-form metadata in the registry, alongside the images themselves.

Protecting PII in Container Environments for PCI and GDPR Compliance

The term Personally Identifiable Information (PII) will be familiar to organizations who are required to comply with regulatory standards such as PCI-DSS. NIST Special Publication 800-122[4] defines PII as “any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as …

Why Container Security Matters for PCI Compliant Organizations

The PCI Data Security Standard is no news. Any entity that collects, holds or processes credit card information is obliged by this standard. What is new is the adoption of containers for production applications that may directly impact PCI compliance. With a 40% increase in Docker adoption in one year, containers introduce a new way …

Kube-Bench: An Open Source Tool for Running Kubernetes CIS Benchmark Tests

The Center for Internet Security provides a number of guidelines and benchmark tests for best practices in securing your code. As Michael Cherny recently described, the CIS has recently published a benchmark for Kubernetes, and now we’re pleased to tell you about our new open source implementation of these tests: kube-bench.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Multi-Tenant Security Management for Containers

Aqua CNAPP is focused on making the platform more scalable for our customer deployments, which include some of the world’s largest container setups.

CONTAINER SECURITY

HIPAA Compliance for Containers: Impact Analysis and Best Practices

Since 1996, the HIPAA act has mandated how personal health information (PHI) should be secured and protected from prying eyes. HIPAA requirements changed how companies in the healthcare industry treat patient data, as well as the processes governing it, the applications that handle it, and the infrastructure that runs those applications. In the U.S, following HIPAA …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

CIS Benchmark for Kubernetes 1.6

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) published a new benchmark last week for Kubernetes 1.6. As the adoption of container technologies grows rapidly, orchestrators have become a key enabler, since large-scale deployments can’t be managed efficiently by humans.

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Securing Containers on OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift container platform is one of the popular and mature platforms for developing and managing container deployments. While it has many built-in security features, Aqua provides an additional layer of security both in development as well as for protecting containerized applications in runtime.

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Injecting Secrets – Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault and Aqua on Azure

One of the neat features of the Aqua Security solution is the ability to inject secrets into the environment of a running container, so that they never get written to disk. In this article I’m setting up an Aqua installation on Azure, using Kubernetes as the orchestrator and HashiCorp Vault as the secrets store, so …

CONTAINER SECURITY

The Challenges of Docker Secrets Management

In our many conversations with customers, Docker secrets management has come up as a particularly thorny issue that seemed to lack an elegant, cross-platform solution for container environments. Not a new issue in the enterprise space, especially as pertains to large-scale DevOps environments, the challenges of managing secrets become amplified in container environments.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Image Vulnerability Scanning in Azure Container Registry

Last month we announced support for Windows containers and automating image scanning as a step in Microsoft VSTS. I’m happy to announce that Aqua supports the new (yet to be officially released) Azure Container Registry, or ACR.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Dirty COW Vulnerability: Impact on Containers

There has been plenty of buzz lately regarding an old-new privilege escalation vulnerability, adorably named “Dirty COW” after the Copy-On-Write memory protection in the Linux kernel. The whole thing started roughly eleven years ago, when a kernel developer left a race condition issue opened: “This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be …

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