Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The Calico community moves fast. With the releases of Calico 3.30 and 3.31, brings improvements in scalability, network security, and visibility. Now, we want to see what YOU can do with them! We’re excited to officially invite you to the Project Calico 3.30+ Community Hackathon. Whether you’re a seasoned eBPF expert or a newcomer to the Gateway API, we welcome your innovation and your ideas!

As organizations increasingly leverage Kubernetes for modern, cloud-native applications, the challenge of managing these environments securely and at scale grows. A centralized platform is needed to simplify Kubernetes operations, enabling deployment, management, and security across cloud, on-prem, and edge locations. Crucially, access to these Kubernetes environments, particularly production clusters, demands stringent control.

Containerization vs virtualization is a decision that impacts your infrastructure’s performance, scalability, and costs. Both technologies isolate applications and optimize resources, but they work differently. Virtualization creates full virtual machines with separate operating systems; containerization packages applications with only the dependencies they need.

What is Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM)? KSPM is the continuous process of checking Kubernetes configurations, permissions, and policies against security benchmarks. It finds misconfigurations, policy violations, and compliance gaps by understanding Kubernetes-native resources like the control plane, workloads, RBAC bindings, and network policies—elements traditional security tools can’t see.

What is a Kubernetes dependency scanner? A Kubernetes dependency scanner finds known vulnerabilities in software packages your containers depend on—operating system packages, open-source libraries, and anything pulled in by package managers like npm, pip, or apt. It compares dependencies against vulnerability databases of known CVEs.

What is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)? A CWPP is a security tool that protects running workloads—containers, virtual machines, and serverless functions—across their entire lifecycle. For Kubernetes environments, this means protecting pods and containers from build time through deployment and into production runtime, covering threats like cryptomining, reverse shells, and lateral movement.

If you operate containers on AWS you’re likely familiar with how vulnerabilities can accumulate. The majority of container images currently include least one critical security flaw. Frequently hidden within a base image or an overlooked dependency. This makes enhancing your AWS container security essential. It’s the method to prevent problems such, as data leaks, privilege abuse and supply-chain threats.