Aqua Operator: Automating Security for Kubernetes

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KUBERNETES SECURITY

Aqua Operator: Automating Security for Kubernetes

Aqua recently developed a Kubernetes Operator that was successfully tested and validated by Red Hat standards for integration and supportability. Before we tell you about our new OpenShift-certified Operator, let’s get some context about what an Operator is.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Vulnerabilities in the Container Ecosystem: A Brief History

Now that containers have been around for a few years and have had their share of disclosed vulnerabilities, it’s time to revisit some of the more interesting ones and see if there’s a recurring theme or any underlying trend to highlight.

Expert Insights

Gartner Names Container Security Among Top 10 Security Projects for 2019

In their recent research note, Top 10 Security Projects for 2019*, Gartner analysts highlighted ten initiatives that Security and Risk Management leaders should implement or improve in 2019. Container security is on this list.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Mitigating High Severity RunC Vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736)

Yesterday it was disclosed that a new high severity (CVSS score 7.2) vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was found in runc, that allows an attacker to potentially compromise the container host. Patches are already available from most providers (see below). Aqua customers can also prevent this vulnerability from being exploited by applying the appropriate runtime policies.

CONTAINER SECURITY

How to Secure Amazon ECS Workloads On Demand

In support of Amazon’s announcement this week at re:Invent surrounding the new AWS Container Marketplace, we’ve made the Aqua Container Security Platform available for on-demand consumption (pay as you go), via the newly minted AWS Container category in the Marketplace. We have several new listings in the AWS Marketplace, but in this blog I’ll cover …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Securing ISV-Provided Container Images

Containers make it very easy to package and deliver applications, so it’s not surprising that many ISVs (Independent Software Providers) are leading the trend of packaging their software, whether it’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or custom-developed code, as container images. These images are then fed into the enterprise customer’s CI/CD pipeline, and are often treated in …

RUNTIME SECURITY

Report by Gartner Highlights Maturing Options for Securing Containers

Gartner recently released a Technical Professional Advice report titled “Container Security — From Image Analysis to Network Segmentation, Options Are Maturing”* (by Joerg Fritsch and Michael Isbitski, 28 August 2018), with a detailed analysis of the space, including open source tools and commercial solutions. We’re pleased to see Aqua mentioned in this report, both for …

Kube-hunter – an open source tool for Kubernetes penetration testing

Aqua released a free tool called kube-hunter to help with Kubernetes Security. You give it the IP or DNS name of your Kubernetes cluster, and kube-hunter probes for security issues – it’s like automated penetration testing.

Aqua Integrates with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center

Good news for those of you running container workloads on GCP – we now provide a nice integration with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center. The Cloud SCC provides a centralized, single-pane-of-glass view of all security data for GCP applications, and providing actionable insights. It includes things like access control monitoring, asset inventory, vulnerability assessment data, …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Popular Docker Networking and Kubernetes Networking Tools

In a previous post, we explored six tools for storing data for Docker containers. Another challenge in container environments is getting containers to network in a consistent and secure manner – especially as container workloads may appear on different hosts as applications scale out, then disappear when they’re not needed. On a single host, Docker …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Cryptocurrency Miners Abusing Containers: Anatomy of an (Attempted) Attack

This isn’t a story about a Docker vulnerability; it’s a story about how hackers are looking for unsecured Docker deployments where they can mine cryptocurrency. You shouldn’t leave your Docker daemon unsecured any more than you would leave your mail server unsecured. We’ve heard many accounts of attempted (sometimes successful) cryptocurrency mining attacks on container …

CONTAINER SECURITY

5 Essential Docker Storage Tools

Storage has been a hot topic for as long as containers have been around. According to a survey by Portworx, 26% of IT pros cite persistent storage as the most difficult challenge in adopting containers, and 44% blame inadequate tools as the main reason. Although containers are stateless by design, the need to store data …

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