In a recent report, 94% of respondents said they experienced a Kubernetes-related security incident. Misconfigurations are the most common kind of Kubernetes vulnerability, reported by 70% of the surveyed companies.1 What’s one attractive target for cybercriminals? The Kubernetes control plane.
Teams must harden the perimeter of nodes, masters, core components, APIs, and public-facing pods. Otherwise, they can’t defend clusters against existing and potential vulnerabilities. Here are 10 best practices to help you secure your Kubernetes control plane and speed up the deployment process.
10 tips to secure your Kubernetes control plane
1. Use Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Take advantage of RBAC to set who has access to the Kubernetes API and, once they’re in, which permissions they have. You’ll find RBAC enabled by default in Kubernetes version 1.6 and up. Since K8s brings together authorization controllers, you can disable the legacy Attribute…
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