falco
Cloud Native Runtime Security (by falcosecurity)
kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark (by aquasecurity)
| falco | kube-bench | |
|---|---|---|
| 42 | 24 | |
| 6,913 | 6,659 | |
| 1.4% | 1.1% | |
| 9.8 | 8.4 | |
| 7 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
falco
Posts with mentions or reviews of falco.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-21.
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco
Like snort, but looks at system calls.
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Kubernetes security projects for entry grad roles in DevSecOps/Cloud security
From one noob to another - I had a lot of fun setting up Falco (https://falco.org) and creating custom policies & alerts.
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An Overview of Kubernetes Security Projects at KubeCon Europe 2023
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.
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K8s secret management
Use some kind of SIEM or Falco to alert you to threats (you can't stop them, but a human can always intervene)
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 2/2
Falco, is a security project that can help you detect threats from within your cluster.
- Opensource IDS for Kubernetes??
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Go based eBPF projects
https://falco.org/ is a security-focused monitoring and alerting with an eBPF option
- Is there a utility that can send shell command to all pods?
- eBPF – Running sandboxed programs in a privileged context such as OS kernel
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My GoLab 2022 experience
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.
kube-bench
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-bench.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-01.
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
2. Kubebench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench Kubebench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
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Evaluating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure with kube-bench
However, no matter how well our applications are secured, the security of our entire IT environment ultimately depends on the security of our infrastructure. Therefore, in the lab to follow, we will shift our focus away from Kubernetes workloads and instead explore how we can evaluate and improve upon the security of our Kubernetes clusters with kube-bench, the industry-leading Kubernetes benchmarking solution developed by Aqua.
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Kube-bench and Popeye: A Power Duo for AKS Security Compliance
The official repository can be found here with detailed installation instructions.
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Quickstart - Aqua Security Kube-Bench
curl -L [https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.10/kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.2/kube-bench_0.6.2_linux_amd64.deb) -o kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb
- Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
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Kubernetes Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community
I haven't used Kubernetes for a while, but shouldn't kube-bench (1) be enough? Do you have to check anything manually?
(1) https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
kube-bench checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. We can deploy kube-bench as a Job that runs daily and consume its report in CI/CD to pass or fail the pipeline based on the level of severity.
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Securing Kubernetes Cluster using Kubescape and kube-bench
kube-bench can be executed as a simple command on the host, as a container on the host using Docker command, or as a job inside Kubernetes Cluster. In case it is run inside a container/pod, it will need access to the PID namespace of the host system. The methods to run kube-bench in AKS, EKS, GKE, On-prem cluster, Openshift and ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service For Kubernetes) are different but well documented.
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What are some fundamental security practices for the self hosted k8s cluster?
Check this out: kube-bench - CIS Benchmark
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Top 6 Kubernetes Security Tools
Kube-bench, written as a Go application, is deployable as a container. Ready-made job.yaml files make it easy to run Kube-bench inside a Kubernetes cluster or on a managed Kubernetes service, such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or OpenShift. Here's a link to Kube-Bench on Github
What are some alternatives?
When comparing falco and kube-bench you can also consider the following projects:
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Kyverno - Kubernetes Native Policy Management
kubesec - Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
OSQuery - SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
kubeaudit - kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
gatekeeper - 🐊 Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes
kube-hunter - Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
kubescape - Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources.
docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.
istio - Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.