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Are Your Kubernetes Workloads Secure? Unsettling Trends in Latest Benchmark

The World Economic Forum says that, despite the economic downturn, we should be prioritizing digital transformation because it enables growth and innovation. Inevitably, digital transformation plans today rely on the scalability and ...
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Best of 2022: 4 Best Practices for Kubernetes Reliability

As we close out 2022, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. One ...
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NSA Security Best Practices for Kubernetes

In this series, I’ve outlined why every organization should care about the NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and examined different areas of the guidelines. What you may suspect is that most of the ...
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NSA Wants Strong Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization 

When I want to get into my phone, I use a passcode or face ID to authenticate. When I want to get into my home, I use a key because no person ...
NSA Guidance

The NSA Wants the Network Locked Down

The NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guide offers a lot of advice on implementing the best defense-in-depth approach to your workloads. Part of that guide outlines how Kubernetes users can secure and harden the ...
NSA Guidance

NSA’s Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines and Pod Security

I previously asked (and answered) the question, What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care? I suggested that the first step to compliance is to understand your Kubernetes environment ...
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What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care?

The NSA released its Kubernetes Hardening Guidelines almost a year ago and made updates to it this March. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of what Kubernetes users ...
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Kubernetes Config and Efficiency: The Butterfly Effect

Ever heard of the butterfly effect? In chaos theory, it happens when a tiny change in one sensitive initial condition has a huge impact down the line. The butterfly effect is a ...
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Culture and Enablement in Kubernetes Service Ownership

The topic of Kubernetes service ownership is not a simple one, as the model contains many parts. But when service ownership is successfully mastered within an organization, it can become a robust ...
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Why Kubernetes Service Ownership is the Answer to Container Security

Full-service ownership is a hot topic right now in Kubernetes, as it revolves around the need for better container security. At the center of the discussion is the question of how this ...