Security Attacks in Kubernetes Cluster Due to Security Best Practices Violation
Explore the security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters resulting from violations of best practices in this 41-minute conference talk by Md Shazibul Islam Shamim from Tennessee Tech. Gain insights into the evolution of application deployment, containerization, and the importance of container orchestration. Delve into Kubernetes architecture, usage, benefits, and the growing developer community. Examine practitioners' security concerns, potential attacks, and findings from multi-vocal literature reviews on Kubernetes challenges and current research. Learn about security defects in Kubernetes manifests, best practices, and threat models for misconfigured RBAC, pods, network policies, ETCD secrets, and resource limits. Understand the associated attacks and their implications. Conclude with a summary of key points and future research directions in Kubernetes security.