Istio Security: Zero-Trust Networking

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Istio Security: Zero-Trust Networking

This is the second in our series of blog posts on Istio, and will focus on Istio’s security features: what they are, how they work and how they help protect your workloads and your data. Building, deploying and maintaining secure, cloud native software requires multiple overlapping solutions at different stages of the software development lifecycle. …

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Severe Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105)

Earlier this week, a severe vulnerability in Kubernetes (CVE-2018-1002105) was disclosed that allows an unauthenticated user to perform privilege escalation and gain full admin privileges on a cluster. The CVE was given the high severity score of 9.8 (out of 10) and it affects all Kubernetes versions from 1.0 onwards, but fixes are available for recent versions.

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Security for Pivotal PAS and PKS

After we made the Aqua Security Scanner for PCF announcement last spring, we started the process of supporting Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Many Pivotal Cloud Foundry PAS customers have tested PKS and many are in production. Having been on the security infrastructure side of life for a couple decades, this doesn’t surprise me at all because …

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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.

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Aqua’s Container Runtime Security Solution on GCP Marketplace

We’re pleased to announce that the Aqua Container Security Platform is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. This is the industry’s first consumption-based security solution for containers, enabled for Kubernetes, providing full lifecycle container security from development to production.

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Securing Kubernetes Deployments on Amazon EKS with Aqua

AWS made its Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) generally available today. We at Aqua had access to the preview version for some time, which allowed us to ensure that our container security platform works with EKS to provide its full spectrum of runtime protection capabilities.

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Kubernetes 1.10: What’s New in Security

Kubernetes 1.10 was officially released recently, with many new enhancements and improvements. This version of Kubernetes, which is lighter on the security side compared to the recent 1.9 and 1.8 releases that were very security focused, offers several new worthy security related features.

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Kubernetes Security Deep-Dive

Since the second half of 2017, Kubernetes has been gaining momentum in adoption as well as in its ecosystem support. We see more and more enterprises choosing Kubernetes for the orchestration of their cloud native deployments. This is in no small part thanks to the many enterprise-grade features added in versions 1.8 and 1.9, including …

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2017 in Review: Major Developments in the Container Ecosystem

From a “humble” $762 million in 2016, containers are predicted to grow faster than any other technology this year (as well as the next) and are on the way to become a $2.7B industry by 2020.

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Kubernetes Metadata and Manifesto

We recently released the first prototype of Manifesto, a tool for storing metadata alongside a container image. Metadata can hold information about software that can change even if the software itself doesn’t, and we can use this information to create powerful automation tools.

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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.

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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.

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