Security News

Though some security mechanisms are included by design, K8s by itself is not a security offering, and security settings aren't always enabled by default. Aqua's new Kubernetes security solution addresses the complexity and short supply of engineering expertise required to configure Kubernetes infrastructure effectively and automatically, by introducing KSPM - Kubernetes Security Posture Management - a coherent set of policies and controls to automate secure configuration and compliance.

AWS Security Hub gives AWS customers a comprehensive view of security posture across all their AWS accounts. As a single place that aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security information from multiple sources, AWS Security Hub helps identify security findings and remediate security threats.

Cisco this week announced plans to acquire Kubernetes-native security platform Portshift. Founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Portshift focuses on providing security for Kubernetes and containers, and takes an agentless approach to delivering vulnerability protection across images, containers, and deployments.

Microsoft this week announced the public preview of support for confidential computing nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service. One of the big tech companies to have affirmed commitment to computing confidentiality, Microsoft made Azure Confidential Computing generally available earlier this year, and also expanded the availability of secure VMs. The availability of confidential containers on AKS is yet another step Microsoft is taking toward moving computing from 'in the clear' to 'confidential'.

Druva announced beta support for Kubernetes workloads which delivers complete application protection that is accessible by all teams, including the central IT team and DevOps. Now, instead of adopting yet another point backup tool specifically for Kubernetes, businesses can protect Kubernetes applications and their underlying infrastructure within Druva alongside their existing workloads.

RackWare is expanding its offering to allow businesses to easily migrate to and protect containers in the cloud. RackWare's new Kubernetes offering, SWIFT, augments RackWare's industry leading server migration and disaster recovery solutions, enabling the movement of containers from on-premise to the cloud, and from cloud-to-cloud.

Trilio announced that its application-centric data protection platform for Kubernetes will be available to IBM customers and partners. IBM clients can leverage IBM Cloud Pak for Data with TrilioVault for Kubernetes to protect container-based applications across hybrid cloud environments.

VMware unveiled the newest versions of its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisor solutions. "Developers can now slipstream Kubernetes applications from test/dev into production," said Lee Caswell, vice president, marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware.

Platform9 announced key additional building blocks in delivering the next generation SaaS managed Kubernetes experience. New features include the industry's first managed Calico networking with API access, an application wizard for automated deployment of bare-metal Kubernetes clusters, and enhanced cluster monitoring and observability that provide better insights into all aspects of cluster behavior.

MayaData, the originator of the popular cloud-native projects OpenEBS and Litmus Chaos, announced Kubera, a new solution for the efficient operations management of Kubernetes as a data layer including logging, alerting, visualization, reporting, backups, maintenance, compliance checks, troubleshooting, and lifecycle automation. Dynamic visualizations of an entire Kubernetes environment, with point and click controls for capabilities such as snapshotting and cloning of data and compliance checks and alerts.