Container Security
Choosing secure base images for containers
Base image choice drives most of your container's attack surface. Here's what secure Docker base images actually require, with concrete CVE data.
Jun 28, 20267 min read
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Distroless container images explained
Distroless images cut container size by up to 90% and eliminate OS-level CVEs, but they don't secure app dependencies. Here's how they work and where they fall short.
Jun 27, 20267 min read
Container Security
Alpine vs distroless: which base image is more secure
Alpine and distroless both shrink attack surface differently. We compare real CVEs, musl risks, and patch tradeoffs to settle which base image actually wins.
Jun 27, 20267 min read
Container Security
Scanning container images in CI/CD pipelines
Where to put container image scanning in your CI/CD pipeline, what it actually catches, and how to stop CVE floods from blocking every build.
Jun 27, 20267 min read
Container Security
Container isolation with namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp
Namespaces, cgroups, and seccomp each isolate a different layer of a container — and a single misconfigured one, like CVE-2024-21626 showed, breaks all three.
Jun 27, 20266 min read
Container Security
Kubernetes Pod Security Standards explained
A breakdown of Kubernetes' Privileged, Baseline, and Restricted Pod Security Standards, how they replaced PodSecurityPolicy, and where enforcement typically fails.
Jun 26, 20267 min read
Container Security
Kubernetes securityContext settings guide
A field-by-field guide to Kubernetes securityContext: which settings stop container breakouts, how to enforce them cluster-wide, and how to audit gaps.
Jun 26, 20266 min read
Container Security
Kubernetes RBAC best practices
RBAC drift and over-broad bindings are the top cause of Kubernetes lateral movement. Six concrete, question-first practices to lock down access before it's exploited.
Jun 26, 20267 min read
Container Security
Kubernetes network policies for zero trust
Kubernetes network policies default to allow-all. Here is how default-deny rules, CNI enforcement, and policy testing build real zero-trust segmentation.
Jun 26, 20267 min read
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