Secure every layer
of Kubernetes
Defense-in-depth security that reduces the attack surface, and detects unusual behavior and active attacks across control, node/pod and cloud planes
Secure K8s posture
Reduce K8s attack surface before deployment, and continuously detect vulnerabilities and unauthorized changes
Monitor ingress
Immediately identify and continually track ingress from the public internet to prevent accidental data exposure
Protect workloads
Automatically detect remote access, manual changes, new roles and bindings and attempts to expose containers
Spot active threats
Easily detect abnormal behavior, new public IP connections, container escape and rogue or malicious containers
Reduce risk intelligently and accelerate threat detection
Harden K8s Security Posture
Minimize misconfiguration and vulnerability risk
- Proactively minimize misconfiguration risk with IaC scanning of Terraform and YAML files and helm charts
- Continuously discover, catalog, monitor, and report on cloud-managed K8s clusters and their risks
- Detect vulnerabilities, pre and post deployment, and block risky containers with the Admission Controller
Prioritize Kubernetes Risks
Respond faster by focussing on the risks that matter most
- Continuously monitor container activity to identify active and exploitable vulnerable packages
- Visualize K8s resource relationships and potential lateral attacker movement between containers and services
- Automatically surface the riskiest container images by attack path severity and number of affected paths
Detect Runtime Threats
Discover active threats that rules miss
- Monitor audit logs to detect and track behaviors associated with K8s processes, connections, and API calls
- Detect compromised credentials, inspect suspicious IP addresses and identify forbidden commands
- Track lateral movement by analyzing which K8s cluster IDs and namespaces a user has accessed or modified
FAQs
Kubernetes security prevents internal and external threats from compromising the containers and workloads within your Kubernetes environment. It also quickly detects exploits of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and monitors and secures the environment to comply with frameworks and regulations.
Since K8s environments can be challenging to secure given their size, velocity, and ephemeral nature, it is vital to have layered defenses from build through runtime. Effective Kubernetes security offers threat detection, configuration management, and vulnerability checks across the environment.
Implementing Kubernetes security best practices can help with the challenges of securing ephemeral environments. Here is a checklist of ten best practices:
- Monitor and fix IaC at check-in
- Perform container configuration and vulnerability checks at build time
- Use strict roles-based access control (RBAC)
- Harden and isolate nodes and OSes
- Monitor network connections
- Monitor ingress endpoints
- Deploy runtime, agent-based monitoring for host OS and K8s components
- Monitor Kubernetes audit logs
- Monitor deployment of new components and workloads
- Use automation for threat detection
For more information on implementing these recommendations, please check out our eBook: 10 best practices for securing Kubernetes.
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