Kubernetes and container security
Automatically detect, prioritize, and remediate critical issues to enhance your Kubernetes cluster’s security posture.
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Key features
Automatic risk remediation and prioritization
Attack path
Trace the potential paths attackers could take and safeguard critical assets:
- Identify and prioritize remediation for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that expose workloads to threats
- Stay secure with ongoing analysis of evolving attack paths as your cluster changes, ensuring up-to-date defenses
Security posture
Continuously scan cluster images to identify vulnerabilities across each image layer:
- Remediate multiple vulnerabilities using recommended base images
- Use comprehensive reports with layer-by-layer analysis to efficiently prioritize vulnerabilities
Runtime security
Cast AI leverages eBPF probes to monitor runtime activity, detecting signals like privilege escalations and network anomalies without impacting performance:
- Define specific anomaly detection rules tailored to your environment for precise monitoring and threat prevention
- Generate detailed, real-time alerts with contextual data to enable rapid incident response and root cause analysis
Vulnerability management
Detect vulnerabilities and take advantage of automated remediation and recommendations.
Compliance
Achieve compliance with CIS benchmarks and other industry standards through automated checks and actionable insights.
Node updates
Ensure compliance by automatically scheduling node rotations to ensure nodes are always running the latest, most up-to-date OS images.
Base image recommendations
Automatically scan container images and receive tailored base image recommendations to improve security and performance.
Runtime detection
Identify and block zero-day threats using out-of-the-box and custom rules.
Tool integrations
Integrate with popular tools like Jira to make responding to threats and incidents faster and more efficient.
Setup
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Additional resources

Docs
Getting Started with Kubernetes Security
Learn how to secure your Kubernetes clusters with Cast AIās automated security solutions.

Webinar
Automated Kubernetes Security Solution
Watch how to boost DevSecOps productivity with automated Kubernetes security posture management.

Blog
K8s Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community
Discover best practices to enhance Kubernetes security and protect your clusters.
FAQ
Your questions, answered
Kubernetes security is all about protecting the Kubernetes cluster and workloads from threats by addressing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. It’s crucial for keeping applications secure and achieving compliance with required standards.
You can secure your K8s cluster by implementing network policies, limiting API access, encrypting sensitive data, and using container security tools to scan container images and instantly identify any vulnerabilities or misconfigurations that may put your cluster at risk.
Security best practices for Kubernetes include using least privilege access, isolating workloads, applying network policies, scanning container images for vulnerabilities, and enabling logging and monitoring for security events.
You can secure container images by using trusted base images, scanning images for vulnerabilities, regularly updating images, and using signed images.
Key components include securing the Kubernetes API server, managing authentication and authorization, implementing network policies and runtime security, and properly configuring secrets and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
Common K8s vulnerabilities include insecure API access, exposed secrets, misconfigured RBAC, privilege escalation attacks, unscanned container images, and lack of network isolation.
Kubernetes network security uses network policies to control traffic between pods and services. You can define rules to restrict communication based on IP addresses, ports, or labels to prevent unauthorized access.
Key challenges include managing complex access control (RBAC), securing dynamic and ephemeral workloads, ensuring secure communication between services, protecting sensitive data (secrets), and handling vulnerabilities in container images. Keeping up with security patches and configurations in fast-evolving Kubernetes environments can also be difficult.
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