SOC 2 is a compliance standard for service organizations, developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which specifies how organizations should manage customer data. SOC 2 is based on five overarching Trust Services Criteria (TSC): security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Specifically, the security criteria are broken down into nine sections called common criteria (CC).
Containerized applications are complex, which is why an effective container security strategy is difficult to design and execute. As digitalization continues to push applications and services to the cloud, bad actors’ attack techniques have also become more sophisticated, which further challenges container security solutions available on the market.
How hard can it be to support custom container image tags? Turns out… quite! I know this because my team has been busy at work on our new custom base image support for Snyk Container, andwe were tasked with the following problem: Given a tag, parse its parts to be able to compare it to other similar tags. It was a fun problem to solve, and we'd love to share how we got to our final solution!
Did you know that you can effortlessly make a small passive income by simply letting an application run on your home computers and mobile phones? It lets others (who pay a fee to a proxy service provider) borrow your Internet Protocol (IP) address for things like watching a YouTube video that isn’t available in their region, conducting unrestricted web scraping and surfing, or browsing dubious websites without attributing the activity to their own IP.
The large attack surface of Kubernetes’ default pod provisioning is susceptible to critical security vulnerabilities, some of which include malicious exploits and container breakouts. I believe one of the most effective workload runtime security measures to prevent such exploits is layer-by-layer process monitoring within the container. It may sound like a daunting task that requires additional resources, but in reality, it is actually quite the opposite.
The recent SCARLETEEL incident highlights the importance of detecting security threats early in the development cycle. With Terraform state files, attackers can easily access sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to your cloud infrastructure. In this case, the attackers exploited a containerized workload and used it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account, stealing software and credentials.
Do you like detective series? Have you ever thought about them actually taking place in cybersecurity? What do you think of CSI on containers? Are you interested in how to apply Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) to containers and clusters? If all your answers are YES, you will love this article. The CloudNative SecurityCon occurred in early February 2023, where leading security experts gathered to present their latest research and projects.
The SANS Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) Buyers Guide gives companies a deep dive into what to look for in a CNAPP solution. As organizations continue to shift towards integrated platform-based solutions for their cloud security needs, it becomes critical to evaluate whether a CNAPP solution meets all the requirements across use cases like posture management, permissions management, vulnerability management, and threat detection and response.
