Monday, October 19, 2020

PSPs vs. OPA Gatekeeper: Breaking down your Kubernetes Pod security options

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger.
Organizations are increasingly turning to Kubernetes, but they’re having trouble balancing security in the process. In its State of Container and Kubernetes Security Fall 2020 survey, for instance, StackRox found that 91% of respondents were using Kubernetes to orchestrate their containers and that three quarters of organizations were using the open-source container-orchestration system in production. Even so, nine in 10 respondents told StackRox in its poll that they had experienced a security event in their container and Kubernetes environment in the last 12 months. Two-thirds of organizations said those incidents had involved a misconfiguration.
These findings highlight the need for organizations to enhance the security of their Kubernetes environments against misconfiguration incidents. In this blog post, we’ll narrow our focus and discuss how one type of misconfiguration in particular—embracing default pod communication—endangers organizations’ security. We&rsquo…

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October 19, 2020 at 09:10PM

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