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Learn Kubernetes Security

You're reading from Learn Kubernetes Security Securely orchestrate, scale, and manage your microservices in Kubernetes deployments

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216503

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Cloud Security

Authors (2):

Kaizhe Huang

Pranjal Jumde

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Networking

4. Chapter 3: Threat Modeling

5. Chapter 4: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege in Kubernetes

6. Chapter 5: Configuring Kubernetes Security Boundaries

7. Section 2: Securing Kubernetes Deployments and Clusters

8. Chapter 6: Securing Cluster Components

9. Chapter 7: Authentication, Authorization, and Admission Control

10. Chapter 8: Securing Kubernetes Pods

11. Chapter 9: Image Scanning in DevOps Pipelines

12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Monitoring and Resource Management of a Kubernetes Cluster

13. Chapter 11: Defense in Depth

14. Section 3: Learning from Mistakes and Pitfalls

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing and Detecting Crypto-Mining Attacks

16. Chapter 13: Learning from Kubernetes CVEs

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Authors (2)

Kaizhe Huang

Kaizhe Huang

Kaizhe Huang is a security researcher at Sysdig, where he researches how to defend Kubernetes and containers from attacks ranging from web attacks to kernel attacks. Kaizhe is one of the maintainers of Falco, an incubation-level CNCF project, and the original author of multiple open source projects, such as kube-psp-advisor. Before joining Sysdig, as an employee at Stackrox, Kaizhe helped build a detection data pipeline, conducted security research, and innovated detection based on machine learning. Previously, as a senior security engineer at Oracle, he helped build security products: Database Vault, Database Privilege Analyzer, and Database Assessment Tool. Kaizhe holds an MS degree in information security from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Pranjal Jumde

Pranjal Jumde

Pranjal Jumde is a senior security engineer at Brave Inc. In the security industry, he has worked on different aspects of security, such as browser security, OS/kernel security, DevSecOps, web application security, reverse engineering malware, security automation, and the development of security/privacy features. Before joining Brave, as an employee at Stackrox, Pranjal helped in the development of detection and enforcement features for the runtime detection platform. He has also worked at Apple and Adobe, where he worked on the development of features to harden various platforms. Pranjal holds an MS degree in information security from Carnegie Mellon University. He has also presented his research at different conferences, such as ACM CCS and BSides SF/Delhi.

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