Kubernetes Cluster Security Audit Explained

Cloud Security Podcast -  we are continuing with our "Kubernetes Security & KubeCon EU 2023" and for the fourth episode in this series Shane Lawrence and Daniele Santos from Shopify explained how kube-audit an open source tool from Shopify. They spoke about how they have used the audit tool to improve security with a developer security lens.

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions

(00:00) Introduction

(02:52) A bit about Shane

(03:45) A bit about Dani

(04:23) Which kubecons have Shane and Dani attended?

(05:03) A bit about Dani and Shane's talk at Kubecon EU

(06:42) Misconfigurations in Kubernetes

(09:48) Dani talks about the Kubernetes Security Report

(10:13) Use case for Kubernetes Misconfiguration

(11:45) What is Azure Escape?

(12:51) What is container escape?

(15:26) What is kubeaudit?

(15:49) Contributing to kubeaudit

(16:40) The maturity of kubeaudit

(19:04) How would kubeaudit help with an azure escape?

(19:41) The developer experience

(21:34) How shopify uses kubeaudit

(24:59) Getting started with kubeaudit

(25:53) Challenges with implementing kubeaudit

(27:19) Maturity of kubernetes security and kubecon

(30:02) Learning about kubernetes

(34:07) Areas of security not being spoken about enough

(36:16) Open Source and Software supply chain risks

See you at the next episode!