Description
Who should attend
- Security Professionals working with Kubernetes Clusters
- Container Orchestration Engineers
- DevOps Professionals
Prerequisites
This course is intended for students who have experience with the core components of Kubernetes.
It is suggested that students take the Certified Kubernetes Administrator course prior to taking the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist course. However, instructors will always strive to assure every student gains a very thorough understanding of the material covered, regardless of the students’ prior experience. Furthermore, this course has already taken into consideration the attendance of less experienced learners.
Finally, experience and knowledge of Linux fundamentals is strongly recommended.
Course Objectives
- Cloud Security Fundamentals
- Cluster Hardening
- System Hardening
- Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities
- Supply Chain Security
- Disaster Recovery
- Secure Back–up and Restore
Outline: Securing Kubernetes – CKS (CKS)
Learning Your Environment
- Underlying Infrastructure
- Using Vim
- Tmux
Cloud Security Primer
- Basic Principles
- Threat Analysis
- Approach
- CIS Benchmarks
Securing your Kubernetes Cluster
- Kubernetes Architecture
- Pods and the Control Plane
- Kubernetes Security Concepts
Install Kubernetes using kubeadm
- Configure Network Plugin Requirements
- Configure Network Plugin Requirements
- Kubeadm Basic Cluster
- Installing Kubeadm
- Join Node to Cluster
- Join Node to Cluster
- Kubeadm Token
- Manage Kubeadm Tokens
- Kubeadm Cluster Upgrade
- Kubeadm Cluster Upgrade
Securing the kube–apiserver
- Configuring the kube–apiserver
- Enable Audit Logging
- Falco
- Deploy Falco to Monitor System Calls
- Enable Pod Security Policies
- Encrypt Data at Rest
- Encryption Configuration
- Benchmark Cluster with Kube–Bench
- Kube–Bench
Securing ETCD
- ETCD Isolation
- ETCD Disaster Recovery
- ETCD Snapshot and Restore
- ETCD Snapshot and Restore
Purge Kubernetes
- Purge Kubeadm
- 3️Purge Kubeadm
Image Scanning
- Container Essentials
- Secure Containers
- Creating a Docker Image
- Scanning with Trivy
- Trivy
- Snyk Security
Manually Installing Kubernetes
- Kubernetes the Alta3 Way
- Deploy Kubernetes the Alta3 Way
- Validate your Kubernetes Installation
- Sonobuoy K8s Validation Test
Kubectl (Optional)
- Kubectl get and sorting
- kubectl get
- kubectl describe
Labels (Optional)
- Labels
- Labels and Selectors
- Annotations
- Insert an Annotation
Securing your Application
- Scan a Running Container
- Tracee
- Security Contexts for Pods
- Understanding Security Contexts
- AppArmor Profiles
- AppArmor
- Isolate Container Kernels
- gVisor
Pod Security
- Pod Security Policies
- Deploy a PSP
- Pod Security Standards
- Enable PSS
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Admission Controller
- Create a LimitRange
- Open Policy Agent
- Policy as Code
- Deploy Gatekeeper
User Administration
- Contexts
- Contexts
- Authentication and Authorization
- Role Based Access Control
- Role Based Access Control
- RBAC Distributing Access
- Service Accounts
- Limit Pod Service Accounts
Securing Secrets
- Secrets
- Create and Consume Secrets
- Hashicorp Vault
- Deploy Vault
Securing the Network
- Networking Plugins
- NetworkPolicy
- Deploy a NetworkPolicy
- mTLS
- Linkerd
- mTLS with istio
- istio
Threat Detection
- Active Threat Analysis
- Host Intrusion Detection
- Deploy OSSEC
- Network Intrusion Detection
- Deploy Suricata
- Physical Intrusion Detection
Disaster Recovery
- Harsh Reality of Security
- Deploy a Response Plan
- Kasten K10 Backups
- Deploy K10
