An Intellyx BrainCandy Update
Many aspects of Kubernetes were left unspecified by design, to allow open source contributors and the vendor community to explore the most resilient approaches for things like networking, storage, observability, and especially, security.
StackRox has made great strides in setting forth a broad vision for K8s cybersecurity through its contributions, vulnerability research and professional evangelism to the cloud-native ecosystem, as well as an enterprise-grade security platform that sets policy and controls for virtually any flavor of Kubernetes distribution in any cloud or on-prem environment.
They do this by hardening security using the internal elements of Kubernetes itself — in fact each customer implementation is deployed as a single Kube app, providing fencing for the hybrid estate of ephemeral clusters and nodes, with sensors, admission controllers and per-node collectors reporting security information through native APIs.
While SecOps teams generally vet and select tools for things like network segmentation and compliance strategy, the widespread proliferation of Kubernetes as an application delivery approach within the enterprise is causing development teams to consider ‘shifting left’ security, making this K8s-native security platform an installable aspect of the application delivery pipeline for many demanding environments.
Intellyx first covered StackRox in 2019.
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