Enforce Workload Security and Best Practices
In Kubernetes environments, robust workload protection is critical to ensuring application security. A cloud native workload can be comprised of multiple pod controllers and other resources for networking, storage, and security. Best practices for these workloads include:
- Configuration of resource quotas and limits at the Pod and Namespace levels.
- Network micro-segmentation to isolate and secure application workloads.
- Limiting access to secrets and API access tokens.
- Preventing harmful combinations including misconfigurations based on CVEs or other known issues.
- Limiting use of cloud Ingresses or other costly resources.
- Verifying images for provenance, integrity, and freshness.
- Enforcing best practices, such as least privileged access for RBAC configuration.
- Requiring proper labeling and naming.
- Enforcing relevant compliance standards, such as PCI-DSS and HIPAA.
Business Benefits
Nirmata safeguards container workloads in Kubernetes clusters through policy enforcement and context-aware controls. Nirmata offers a comprehensive solution for workload protection that delivers the following benefits:
- Centralizing security policies and configurations across fleets of Kubernetes clusters to simplify management and reduce complexity.
- Reducing the risk of breaches by proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Streamlining security compliance with regulations and standards, demonstrating a solid security posture.
- Efficiently scaling for growing container deployments using Kubernetes by Nirmata’s flexible policy management solution.
With Nirmata you can:
- Provide a centralized platform to manage and enforce security policies as code.
- Configure context-aware policies tailored to specific namespaces, labels, or workloads, providing granular control over workload security.
- Enforce Pod Security Standards (PSS).
- Validate deployments of pods, deployments, and other resources against defined security policies.
- Ensure containers run with the least required privileges.
- Safeguard secrets and configurations used by workloads.
- Isolate workloads and prevent unauthorized access by defining network policies that control how containers communicate with each other and external resources.
