Knative is the newest member of serverless environments that is gaining significant interest and generating a great deal of hype in the Kubernetes/Cloud Native community. It’s an open source framework that was designed to enable the development and deployment of container-based serverless applications that are easy …
When you’re running Kubernetes, how do you know whether it’s configured securely? Kubernetes is a complex system, with several control plane components, each of which has numerous configuration parameters. In some cases, it’s clear that a parameter will have an impact on Kubernetes security – for example, providing …
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.
We’re excited to be launch partners for AWS App Mesh, officially announced today at the Santa Clara AWS Summit. Aqua provides fine-grained protection to microservices-based applications that use AWS App Mesh, by ensuring that the microservices infrastructure conforms to the organization’s security policy, and by …
March 07, 2019
Mitigating the Kubernetes API Server Patch Permission DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1002100)
A new medium severity vulnerability in the open source Kubernetes has been disclosed (CVE-2019-1002100) that can, if exploited, lead to a denial-of-service on the K8s API server, which in turn may lead to the cluster becoming inoperable.
The best mitigation is to remove the “patch” permissions from untrusted users, …
Serverless is generating significant interest and hype, backed up by real-world adoption, and creating a need for better security controls. I've been working with our customers to create the right approach and tooling to protect their FaaS environments ,and from this research, given the extremely short duration of …
In this series of blog posts we had an introduction to Istio, and an overview of its security features. This post completes the series with a look at how we can leverage Istio’s traffic control features to provide increased observability and control over the operation and deployment of our applications.
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 …
Infrastructure protection, sandboxed containers, MicroVM hypervisors– these are interchangeable terms describing emerging technologies to isolate micro-services from their underlying infrastructure. These isolation technologies aim to protect the underlying host that runs containers and functions against malicious …
On Monday, “day 0” of this year’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, we held our first KubeSec Enterprise Summit event, co-located with KubeCon under the auspices of the CNCF. Aqua hosted the event together with our partners Red Hat and AWS. The event was over-subscribed, and we had to make special allowance for late …
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 …