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Integrate Kubernetes policy-as-code solutions into Security Hub

Integrate Kubernetes policy-as-code solutions into Security Hub

Using Kubernetes policy-as-code (PaC) solutions, administrators and security professionals can enforce organization policies to Kubernetes resources. There are several publicly available PAC solutions that are available for Kubernetes, such as Gatekeeper, Polaris, and Kyverno. PaC solutions usually implement two features: Use Kubernetes admission controllers to validate or modify objects before they’re created to help enforce configuration best […]

How to investigate and take action on security issues in Amazon EKS clusters with Amazon Detective – Part 2

March 15, 2023: We’ve updated this post to incorporate a section to investigate VPC flow logs. In part 1 of this of this two-part series, How to detect security issues in Amazon EKS cluster using Amazon GuardDuty, we walked through a real-world observed security issue in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster and […]

How to detect security issues in Amazon EKS clusters using Amazon GuardDuty – Part 1

In this two-part blog post, we’ll discuss how to detect and investigate security issues in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster with Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run and scale container workloads by using Kubernetes in the AWS […]

Use AWS Network Firewall to filter outbound HTTPS traffic from applications hosted on Amazon EKS and collect hostnames provided by SNI

October 13, 2022: This post had been updated with diagram of Figure 1: Outbound internet access through Network Firewall from Amazon EKS worker nodes modified. This blog post shows how to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster such that the applications hosted on the cluster can have their outbound internet access […]