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

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KUBERNETES SECURITY

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.

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 …

Serverless Security: The Importance of FaaS Risk Assessment

In my previous blog, I discussed the serverless services spectrum and the unique security considerations of serverless functions. In this post, I’d like to elaborate on the importance of preliminary risk assessment checks and their contribution to an effective security strategy, based on lessons learned in containerized workloads environments.

CNAPP, CONTAINER SECURITY

Istio: The Enterprise Upgrade Path to Microservices

Istio, Google’s open source project for large scale, containerized application management was released in May 2017 and has undergone rapid development since then, culminating in the landmark 1.0 release in July 2018. In this blog post we will be exploring what Istio is, how it works and how to adopt it. In subsequent articles in …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Streamline Image Vulnerability Management for OpenShift Image Streams

In traditional cloud native environments, actions such as building and deploying applications will usually involve working directly with images hosted in one or more registries. Customers wishing to track changes in those images, in order to identify security and compliance issues, would need to set up an automatic process of constantly scanning them by connecting …

CONTAINER SECURITY

“Thin OS” Security for Container Hosts

In the spectrum of deployment options available for cloud native applications, the most widely used option, at least presently, is running containers on VMs that use the Linux operating system (or less frequently, bare-metal servers running Linux).

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 …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

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 …

Securing Serverless: Persistent Security for Ephemeral Environments

Cloud native workloads terminology is used a lot these days to describe new technologies and deployment models of applications in the cloud universe. Serverless is a notable example of such cloud native-workloads: it prioritizes simplicity and agility over compatibility, control, and performance SLAs. It’s a revolutionary concept that abstracts away infrastructure concerns and provides a …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

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.

RUNTIME SECURITY

Out-of the-Box Policies Simplify Container Compliance

One of the challenges organizations have in using cloud native technologies is in figuring out how compliance requirements translate into actionable control points. Most regulations predate containers and serverless technologies and don’t have specific articles governing the use of such technologies. We recently released Aqua 3.2, where we rolled out key compliance controls pre-configured as …

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