docker-bench-security VS falco

Scanning your container images for vulnerabilities is a good approach. But this scanning is not one time job, it should be done regularly (weekly, monthly, etc.) You need to follow vulnerability reports and fix all of the vulnerabilities as soon as possible. I recommend some open-source tools that could be useful: Trivy, Docker-Bench, Grype.

For Docker configuration I have used this in the past (it utilizes the CIS Docker Benchmark): https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security

So the main tool to scan against the CIS Docker benchmark (I'm presuming that's the one you're interested in) is https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security .

git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security.git cd docker-bench-security sudo sh docker-bench-security.sh

when deploying images on cloud, I always run it thru "docker bench security" It helps finding potential security holes in my images.

Use Docker Bench for Security to audit your container images

Other tools you can use are linux-bench, docker-bench, kube-bench, kube-hunter, kube-striker, Cloud Custodian, OVAL, and OS Query.

I run https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security against my environment. I would determine what was non-applicable/not scored and then start with scored. Then I would do not scored. My team had made their own Dockerfiles when I started and just grabbed whatever image/version and getting things baselined was not fun. I had to do this for docker-compose and stay on version 2 yml as otherwise I had to go to swarm.

https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco

Like snort, but looks at system calls.

From one noob to another - I had a lot of fun setting up Falco (https://falco.org) and creating custom policies & alerts.

Falco is a well-known open source security solution originally created by Sysdig. It’s a CNCF incubating project and one of the few (as far as I can tell) options on this list that uses eBPF to scan for vulnerabilities.

Use some kind of SIEM or Falco to alert you to threats (you can't stop them, but a human can always intervene)

Falco, is a security project that can help you detect threats from within your cluster.

https://falco.org/ is a security-focused monitoring and alerting with an eBPF option

On the cgo side I want to highlight two talks: one from Loris Cro about dealing with cross-complition difficulties, that the usage of cgo brings, using the Zig language and the other from Jason Dellaluce and Leonardo Grasso about how to extend Falco, a Kubernetes threat detection engine, which is written in C++, with plugins written in Go, explaining the challenges of integrating cgo in both C and Go.