How to Handle Secrets in Kubernetes
This blog post covers creating, storing, and using secrets in Kubernetes, encryption, RBAC, and auditing. It introduces Kubernetes External Secrets and best practices to enhance security. Let's dive in!
This blog post covers creating, storing, and using secrets in Kubernetes, encryption, RBAC, and auditing. It introduces Kubernetes External Secrets and best practices to enhance security. Let's dive in!
We’ve noticed that many of our customers are currently undergoing a significant transformation in their application architecture, transitioning from legacy vertical applications to distributed microservices running on Kubernetes. This shift brings along a range of benefits, such as improved scalability, resilience, and agility. However, it also creates a larger attack surface that needs to be managed effectively.
According to OpenLogic’s Open Source Adoption and Expansion in 2022 Report, the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) across all sizes of organizations is rising with 40% of respondents stating an increase of OSS software over the previous year and 36% reporting a significant increase in OSS software usage. The increase in OSS adoption can be attributed to a number of factors including access to the latest innovations, reduction in costs and frequent product updates.
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!