What is Open Policy Agent (OPA)? Best Practices + Applications
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open-source, versatile policy engine that facilitates unified and context-aware policy enforcement across various cloud environments.
Nicolas Ehrman
Nicolas is product marketing manager and focuses mainly on the security of containerized environments and cloud-native applications. For over 20 years in IT, he has specialized in cloud infrastructure, automation and security, and has worked for companies such as EMC, Red Hat and HashiCorp. Outside of work, he loves traveling, discovering new cultures, and especially the foods of all over the world.
Nicolas Ehrman Articles
Exposure Risk Management in Cybersecurity
Exposure management is when companies identify, assess, and mitigate the risk posed by exposed resources, such as networks, applications, data, and other assets.
8 Essential Linux Security Best Practices
Linux security ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Linux-based systems and protects them from hackers, brute-force attacks, and other cyber threats.
Kubernetes Clusters: A Security Review
A Kubernetes cluster consists of a group of node machines designed to run applications within containers.
Helm Charts in Kubernetes: A security review
Helm Charts streamline the deployment of applications by providing a packaging format that includes all necessary Kubernetes resources.
What is a Container Engine?
A container engine is a software tool that automates the process of running applications in isolated, lightweight environments called containers.
File Integrity Monitoring Explained
File integrity monitoring (FIM) is a set of security practices that continuously verify the authenticity of file systems, operating system components, applications, and databases.
Kubernetes Namespaces: Security Best Practices
Kubernetes namespaces divide a given cluster into virtual clusters, helping to separate and manage resources while still keeping them within the same physical cluster. By segregating workloads and applying policies per namespace, you can create boundaries that keep your multi-tenant environments safe and organized.
Linux containers: A security review
Understanding the nuances of Linux containers is crucial for building robust, secure applications. This blog post provides insights into the practical implementation of containers, focusing on both their strengths and potential pitfalls.
7 GKE Security Best Practices
7 essential best practices that every organization should start with
Docker Container Security 101
Docker containers leverage the Docker Engine (a platform built on top of Linux containers) to simplify the software development process.
Kubernetes Runtime Security: Foundation and Best Practices
Kubernetes runtime security refers to the measures and practices implemented to protect Kubernetes clusters and the applications running within them during their operational phase.
Kubernetes Security Context: Best practices
In Kubernetes, a security context defines privilege and access control settings for a Pod or Container. It allows you to specify security configurations such as user and group IDs, filesystem permissions, and capabilities.
Container monitoring explained
Container monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting metrics and data related to the performance and health of containerized applications and their hosting environments.
Kubernetes RBAC Explained
Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) serves as a foundational security layer within Kubernetes. It is essential for regulating access to the K8s API and its resources, allowing organizations to define user roles with specific permissions to effectively control who can see or interact with what resources within a cluster.
Container Runtime Security
Container runtime security is the combination of measures and technology implemented to protect containerized applications at the runtime stage.
Terraform Security Best Practices
Common security risks associated with Terraform and the 6 essential best practices for terraform security.
Container Orchestration
Container orchestration involves organizing groups of containers that make up an application, managing their deployment, scaling, networking, and their availability to ensure they're running optimally.
Kubernetes Admission Controllers: A Fast-Track Guide
The primary function of admission controllers is the enforcement of custom policies on incoming requests, ensuring that only valid and compliant API requests are executed.
AWS containers: Fundamentals and best practices
At their core, containers encapsulate the application code and runtime, system tools, dependencies, and settings that enable it to operate in the same way across multiple environments.
Kubernetes secrets
A Kubernetes secret is an object in the Kubernetes ecosystem that contains sensitive information (think keys, passwords, and tokens)
What is containerization?
Containerization encapsulates an application and its dependencies into a container image, facilitating consistent execution across any host operating system supporting a container engine.
Kubernetes as a service
Kubernetes as a service (KaaS) is a model in which hyperscalers like AWS, GCP, and Azure allow you to quickly and easily start a Kubernetes cluster and begin deploying workloads on it instantly.
Kubernetes Monitoring
Kubernetes monitoring involves collecting, analyzing, and acting on performance data and metrics across your clusters.
Containers as a Service (CaaS): An overview
Containers as a service (CaaS) is a cloud service model that allows users to manage, upload, scale, run, and terminate containers using a service provider's API or web portal.
DevOps Security Best Practices
20 essential security best practices every DevOps team should start with
Container Images Explained
Take a deep dive into the world of container images and learn their essential role in cloud security.
Kubernetes Vulnerability Scanning
Kubernetes vulnerability scanning is the systematic process of inspecting a Kubernetes cluster (including its container images and configurations) to detect security misconfigurations or vulnerabilities that could compromise the security posture of the cluster.
Container Architecture: A Security Review
Container architecture is a way to package and deploy applications as standardized units called containers.
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) refers to the process of identifying, analyzing, and managing an organization's external attack surface.
Kubernetes Security Best Practices
9 essential best practices to securing your Kubernetes workloads
Container Security Best Practices
8 no-brainer container security best practices + the key components of container architecture to secure
Container Registries Explained
A container registry is a service that stores, manages, and distributes application images. Its architecture is designed to ensure availability by providing a centralized resource for container image discovery, distribution, and deployment.
What is Container Security? [Securing Containers 101]
Container security is the process of securing the container pipeline, the content running inside the containers, and the infrastructure on which the containers run.
What is Cloud Encryption?
Cloud encryption is the process of transforming data into a secure format that's unreadable to anyone who doesn't have the key to decode it.
Microservices Security Best Practices
Microservices security is the practice of protecting individual microservices and their communication channels from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other threats, ensuring a secure overall architecture despite its distributed nature.
Container Runtimes Explained
A container runtime is the foundational software that allows containers to operate within a host system.
IAM Security Explained
IAM security consists of policies and technologies designed to ensure that only authorized individuals gain access to the relevant resources within an organization.
Essential EKS Security Best Practices
EKS security refers to the practices, strategies, and technologies that organizations use to protect Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments from threats.
AKS Security Best Practices
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) delivers Kubernetes as a managed service in Azure and is popular among organizations looking for a hassle-free Kubernetes solution in the cloud.
What is KSPM?
Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) is the practice of monitoring, assessing, and ensuring the security and compliance of Kubernetes environments.
Container Security Scanning
Container security scanning is a process that systematically analyzes container images for vulnerabilities and security issues, allowing developers to address potential threats before they escalate into breaches.
Container Image Signing
Container image signing is a critical security process for establishing trust. Just as you'd expect a signature to verify the authenticity of a document, image signing does the same for container images—those neat packages that carry your code along with all the necessary parts to run it anywhere.
Container Scanning Tools
Looking to make the most of containerization while minimizing risk? Container scanning solutions are a critical line of defense that help ensure the safe and secure deployment of applications.
CI/CD Pipeline Security Best Practices
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become the backbone of modern software development, enabling rapid, reliable, and consistent delivery of software products. To bolster your CI/CD pipeline, ensuring resilience against ever-evolving threats, follow the best practices in this guide.
11 API Security Best Practices
11 essential API security best practices that every organization should start with
The most common Kubernetes security issues and challenges
The open-source nature of Kubernetes means that it is continually being updated and improved, which introduces new features and functionalities—as well as new vulnerabilities. Understand the most pressing K8 security challenges.
The top 11 open-source Kubernetes security tools
It’s a good idea to consider a range of Kubernetes security tools. Open source solutions can greatly improve the security of your Kubernetes clusters, so this section explores the top 11 open-source Kubernetes security tools that can help to safeguard your Kubernetes environment.
What is API security?
API security encompasses the strategies, procedures, and solutions employed to defend APIs against threats, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized intrusion.
Nicolas Ehrman Posts
Expanding Wiz Runtime Sensor Coverage - Now Blocking Threats and Protecting Serverless Containers at Runtime
Wiz extends its cloud-native runtime sensor to secure serverless containers, providing deep visibility, blocking, and hunting capabilities for AWS Fargate and Azure Container Apps.
Mastering cloud security with custom roles: one more step towards democratization
Discover how Wiz extends its existing RBAC with the Custom Roles feature, enabling you to tailor user permissions, maintain security, and stay aligned with business needs.
Stay safe with Wiz's winning hand for securing Kubernetes
Ensure that your Kubernetes environments are secure and follow OWASP's Kubernetes Top 10 framework. Generate reports quickly and easily and remediate any issues with actionable insights.
Finding the needle in the haystack: effortless SBOM search in your cloud with Wiz
Find out quickly where OS and open-source packages or libraries are deployed in your cloud environments and secure them before potential issues arise.
Sailing Securely Across the SDLC: Introducing Wiz's Image Trust and Kubernetes Audit Log Collector
Secure your applications across the SDLC by deploying only trusted images and monitoring your Kubernetes control plane in near-real time to detect potential threats.
Unveiling eBPF: Harnessing Its Power to Solve Real-World Issues
Dive in a Kubernetes attack and see how eBPF and other security best practices can prevent these attacks.
Ensuring Supply Chain Security: Verify container image integrity with the Wiz Admission Controller
The Wiz admission controller simplifies supply chain security by ensuring only trusted container images can be deployed in Kubernetes environments.
Unveiling eBPF: Revolutionizing Security and Observability
An Introduction to Extended BPF and Its Transformative Impact.
Wiz launches support for Amazon SageMaker, helping organizations innovate faster and more securely with AI
Wiz helps accelerate the machine learning journey for practitioners by protecting their generative AI applications
Docker and Kubernetes, we have got you covered: Wiz simplifies compliance and security posture management for Docker and Kubernetes environments.
Ensure that your Docker and Kubernetes environments are secure and compliant with CIS benchmarks. Generate reports quickly and easily and remediate any issues with actionable insights.
Wiz helps organizations innovate with AI securely and responsibly, launching support for Google Cloud Vertex AI
Wiz protects AI infrastructure against cloud attacks, allowing data scientists and engineers to focus on deploying more AI applications.
Streamline Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Generation with Wiz's Agentless SBOM
Enhance software security and supply chain risk management with Wiz's agentless scanning technology for effortless SBOM creation
Wiz: First agentless cloud security vendor to attain CIS SecureSuite Vendor Certification for cloud-managed Kubernetes
Confidently ensure your Kubernetes environments are compliant with CIS Benchmarks for cloud-managed Kubernetes. Quickly generate compliance reports and remediate any issues without hassle.
Enhanced policy management with GitOps and Terraform
Wiz announces new GitOps workflows and Terraform provider, enabling customers to manage policies as code.
Streamlining OS and Application Hardening: Revealing Misconfigurations with Wiz’s Agentless Custom Host Configuration Rules
Shell commands that once had to be run manually now can be coded into a custom rule and run daily using Wiz agentless workload scanning.
Automatically discover and secure your APIs with Wiz Dynamic Scanner
Wiz enhances its Dynamic Scanner to detect publicly exposed, unauthenticated APIs
Wiz enhances dynamic scanner to analyze and validate external exposure
Wiz extends its cloud analysis with an external scanner, giving customers an attacker's view of their externally exposed resources to reduce noise.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: Our top 10 sessions to attend
KubeCon 2022 will be full of great presentations and content. Here's our take on the conference sessions (apart from our own) that you shouldn't miss, whether you're onsite or attending virtually.
Meet Wiz at KubeCon North America
Wiz will be attending and sponsoring KubeCon for the first time and we have a lot to share regarding how enterprises can better secure their container and Kubernetes environments. Come say hi!