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Kubernetes Security

Default-deny NetworkPolicy: closing the pod-to-pod gap in Kubernetes

Kubernetes pods allow all traffic by default, and many clusters' NetworkPolicy YAML silently does nothing because the CNI plugin never enforces it.

Jul 15, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

Native Secrets, Sealed Secrets, or Vault: Picking a Kubernetes Secrets Strategy

Kubernetes Secrets are base64-encoded, not encrypted — etcd stores them near-plaintext unless you configure encryption at rest yourself.

Jul 15, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

TLS termination and cert-manager: a hardening guide for Kubernetes Ingress

IngressNightmare's CVSS 9.8 RCE showed that ingress-nginx's own admission webhook can be turned against cluster Secrets — here's how to configure TLS safely.

Jul 15, 20267 min read
Kubernetes Security

Broken object-level authorization in Kubernetes integrations: CVE-2023-1065

One leaked Integration ID was enough to pollute a Snyk customer's findings — CVE-2023-1065 shows why possession of an identifier is not authorization.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

A practical guide to least privilege in Kubernetes RBAC

One RBAC flaw, CVE-2018-1002105 (CVSS 9.8), let any authenticated user escalate to cluster-admin — here's how to actually scope roles so that never happens again.

Jul 13, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

Best practices for securing Kubernetes ConfigMaps

ConfigMaps store plaintext in etcd with no size guardrail beyond 1 MiB — teams that drop credentials in them expose secrets to a far bigger RBAC audience.

Jul 13, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

Securing the Argo CD to Kubernetes GitOps Pipeline

One symlinked Helm values file (CVE-2022-24348, CVSS 7.7) let attackers read secrets across Argo CD tenants — GitOps trust needs hardening, not just adoption.

Jul 12, 20266 min read
Kubernetes Security

Falco vs. Tetragon vs. Tracee: choosing a Kubernetes runtime security tool

Falco graduated CNCF in February 2024, Tetragon enforces in-kernel, and Tracee ships 330+ prebuilt eBPF detections — here's when each one actually wins.

Jul 11, 20267 min read
Kubernetes Security

Running Multiple Custom Controllers Without RBAC or CRD Collisions

Kubernetes CRDs are singletons by group and kind, and RBAC has no tenant concept — two facts that quietly break most multi-controller clusters.

Jul 11, 20268 min read
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