Best Practice Report

Best Practices: Kubernetes Security

Coordinate Across Identity, Network, And Container Security To Protect K8s

June 14th, 2023
Sandy Carielli, Principal Analyst
Sandy Carielli Principal Analyst
Lee Sustar, Principal Analyst
Lee Sustar Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Amy DeMartine , Devin Dickerson , Janet Worthington , Danielle Chittem , Ian McPherson

Summary

Kubernetes is a complex and abstract set of APIs to orchestrate containerized applications at scale, one that poses new challenges for security teams. Yet the cloud-native ecosystem has provided a space for collaboration among open source project maintainers, vendors, and users, who, together, are transforming Kubernetes’ open-by-default architecture into a flexible way to build modern security for containerized applications with a Zero Trust approach. Use this report to understand the breadth of Kubernetes’ mandatory security requirements and discover best practices to protect their Kubernetes environments.

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