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This repository is a collection of resources to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS) exam.
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# Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist - CKSS

This repository is a collection of resources to prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS) exam.

> The given references and links below are just assumptions and ideas around the [CKSS curriculum](https://github.com/cncf/curriculum/blob/master/CKS_Curriculum_%20v1.19.pdf).



## CKS Overview

The Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification ensure that the holder has the skills, knowledge, and competence on a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during build, deployment and runtime.



The certification is generally available to take from [here](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-kubernetes-security-specialist/) as anounced during the KubeCon NA20



## CKS Outline

The CKS test will be online, proctored and performance-based with 15-20 hands-on performance based tasks, and candidates have 2 hours to complete the exam tasks.



From the CKS Exam Curriculum repository, The exam will test domains and competencies including:

1. **Cluster Setup (10%)**: Best practice configuration to control the environment's access, rights and platform conformity.

2. **Cluster Hardening (15%)**: Protecting K8s API and utilize RBAC.

3. **System Hardening (15%)**: Improve the security of OS & Network; restrict access through IAM

4. **Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities (20%)**: Utilizing on K8s various mechanisms to isolate, protect and control workload.

5. **Supply Chain Security (20%)**: Container oriented security, trusted resources, optimized container images, CVE scanning.

6. **Monitoring, Logging, and Runtime Security (20%)**: Analyse and detect threads.



# CKS Exam Preparation



In order to take the CKS exam, you must have **Valid CKA certification** prior to attempting the CKS exam to demonstrate you possess sufficient Kubernetes expertise.

A first good starting point for securing Kubernetes is the Task section [**Securing a Cluster**](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/securing-a-cluster/) of the official K8s documentation.

The exam will be based on **Kubernetes v1.19 documentation** as of November general availability announcement.

# Allowed resources to access during my CKS exam:

According to the LF docs, during the CKS exam the candidates may:

- review the Exam content instructions that are presented in the command line terminal.

- review Documents installed by the distribution (i.e. /usr/share and its subdirectories)

- use their Chrome or Chromium browser to open **one additional tab** in order to access 

  - **Kubernetes Documentation:**

    - https://kubernetes.io/docs/ and their subdomains

    - https://github.com/kubernetes/ and their subdomains

    - https://kubernetes.io/blog/ and their subdomains

    

    This includes all available language translations of these pages (e.g. https://kubernetes.io/zh/docs/)

  - **Tools**:

    - Trivy documentation https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy

    - Sysdig documentation https://docs.sysdig.com/

    - Falco documentation https://falco.org/docs/

  - **App Armor:**

    - Documentation [https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Documentation](https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Documentation)

    

  The allowed sites above may contain links that point to external sites. It is the responsibility of the candidate not to click any links to navigate to a domain that is not allowed



## Cluster Setup (10%)

Use Network security policies to restrict cluster level access

  

#### Allowed Ressources

* [Network Policies](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies)

* [Securing a Cluster](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/securing-a-cluster/)

* [Declare Network Policy](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/declare-network-policy/)

* [Enforcing Network Policies in Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/10/enforcing-network-policies-in-kubernetes/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Get started with Kubernetes network policy](https://docs.projectcalico.org/security/kubernetes-network-policy)

* [kubernetes-network-policy-recipes](https://github.com/ahmetb/kubernetes-network-policy-recipes)

* [Kubernetes Network Policies Best Practices](https://blog.alcide.io/kubernetes-network-policies-best-practices)

* [Exploring Network Policies in Kubernetes](https://banzaicloud.com/blog/network-policy/)



Use CIS benchmark to review the security configuration of Kubernetes components (etcd, kubelet, kubedns, kubeapi)

  

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [CIS benchmark for Kubernetes](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/)

  * The benchmark is not yet available for `Kubernetes 1.19`, but it gives great understanding.

* [What is Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/offering-cis-benchmark)

* [Kube-bench](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench#running-kube-bench): A tool for running Kubernetes CIS Benchmark tests

* [GKE: CIS Benchmarks for etcd & kubelet](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cis-benchmarks#default-values) 



Properly set up Ingress objects with security control



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Ingress](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/)

* [Ingress Controllers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress-controllers/)

* [Set up Ingress on Minikube with the NGINX Ingress Controller](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/ingress-minikube/)

* [secure an Ingress by specifying a Secret that contains a TLS private key and certificate](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/#tls) 

* [How to deploy NGINX Ingress Controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/deploy/index.md)

* [TLS/HTTPS](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/user-guide/tls.md)



Protect node metadata and endpoints



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Restricting cloud metadata API access](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/securing-a-cluster/#restricting-cloud-metadata-api-access)

* [Kubelet authentication/authorization](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet-authentication-authorization/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Kubelet API](https://www.deepnetwork.com/blog/kubernetes/2020/01/13/kubelet-api.html)

* [Setting up secure endpoints in Kubernetes](https://blog.cloud66.com/setting-up-secure-endpoints-in-kubernetes/)

* [GKE Protecting cluster metadata](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/protecting-cluster-metadata)

* [Retrieving EC2 instance metadata](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html)

* [EC2 Instance user data](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html)



Minimize use of, and access to, GUI elements



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Web-based Kubernetes User Interface](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/)

* [Dashboard Access control](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/blob/master/docs/user/access-control/README.md)

* [Dashboard Auth](https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/blob/master/docs/user/access-control/creating-sample-user.md)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [On Securing the Kubernetes Dashboard](https://blog.heptio.com/on-securing-the-kubernetes-dashboard-16b09b1b7aca)



Verify platform binaries before deploying

  

#### Allowed Ressources

* [Kubernetes platform binaries](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases)



## Cluster Hardening (15%)

Restrict access to Kubernetes API



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Controlling Access to the Kubernetes API](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/controlling-access/)

* [Certificate Signing Requests: Create Normal User](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/certificate-signing-requests/#normal-user)

* [Generate cluster certificates (easyrsa, openssl or cfssl)](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/certificates/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [GKE: Hardening your cluster's security](https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/how-to/hardening-your-cluster)

* [Kubernetes RBAC and TLS certificates – Kubernetes security guide](https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-security-rbac-tls/)

* [Securing Your Kubernetes API Server](https://tufin.medium.com/protecting-your-kubernetes-api-server-5eefeea4cf8a)



Use Role Based Access Controls to minimize exposure



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Using RBAC Authorization](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/)

* [Authorization modes for Kubernetes API server](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authorization/#authorization-modules)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Site for Kubernetes RBAC](https://rbac.dev/)

* [Understand Role-Based Access Control in Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3R24JSlGjY)

* [RBAC Study Guide](https://github.com/David-VTUK/CKA-StudyGuide/blob/master/RevisionTopics/Part-5-Security.md)



Exercise caution in using service accounts e.g. disable defaults, minimize permissions on newly created ones

  

#### Allowed Ressources

* [Managing Service Accounts](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/service-accounts-admin/)

* [Default roles and role bindings](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#default-roles-and-role-bindings)

* [Authorization Modes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authorization/#authorization-modules)

* [Configure Service Accounts for Pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/)

* [Kubernetes should not mount default service account credentials by default](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/57601)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Kubernetes: Creating Service Accounts and Kubeconfigs](https://docs.armory.io/docs/armory-admin/manual-service-account/)

* [Kubernetes Access Control: Exploring Service Accounts](https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-access-control-exploring-service-accounts/)

* [Disable default service account by deployments in Kubernetes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52583497/how-to-disable-the-use-of-a-default-service-account-by-a-statefulset-deployments)

* [Securing Kubernetes Clusters by Eliminating Risky Permissions](https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/securing-kubernetes-clusters-by-eliminating-risky-permissions)

* [Understand Role Based Access Control in Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3R24JSlGjY)



Update Cluster frequently

  

#### Allowed Ressources

* [Update Kubernetes frequently](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/setup-tools/kubeadm/kubeadm-upgrade/)



## System Hardening (15%)

Minimize host OS footprint (reduce attack surface)



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Preventing containers from loading unwanted kernel modules](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/securing-a-cluster/#preventing-containers-from-loading-unwanted-kernel-modules)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Reduce Kubernetes Attack Surfaces](https://blog.sonatype.com/kubesecops-kubernetes-security-practices-you-should-follow#:~:text=Reduce%20Kubernetes%20Attack%20Surfaces)

* [distribution independent linux](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/distribution_independent_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark Ubuntu Linux](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ubuntu_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark RedHat](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/red_hat_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark Debian](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/debian_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark Centos](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/centos_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark SUSE](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/suse_linux/)

* [CIS Benchmark Oracle](https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/oracle_linux/)



Minimize IAM roles



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [What is the Principle of Least Privilege (POLP)?](https://digitalguardian.com/blog/what-principle-least-privilege-polp-best-practice-information-security-and-compliance)

* [IAM Grant least privilege](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#grant-least-privilege)



Minimize external access to the network



#### Allowed Ressources

* [K8s quotas (services.loadbalancers)](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/resource-quotas/)

* [Restrict Access For LoadBalancer Service](https://v1-17.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-cloud-provider-firewall/#restrict-access-for-loadbalancer-service)

* [Admission control plugin: ResourceQuota](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/resource-management/admission_control_resource_quota.md)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Secure hosts with OS-level firewall (ufw)](https://help.replicated.com/community/t/managing-firewalls-with-ufw-on-kubernetes/230)

* [Configure firewall with ufw](https://www.linode.com/docs/security/firewalls/configure-firewall-with-ufw/)

* [Use security groups to secure network (Azure)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-security#azure-network-security-groups)

* [Amazon EKS security group considerations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/sec-group-reqs.html)

* [Amazon EC2 security groups for Linux instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-security-groups.html)



Appropriately use kernel hardening tools such as AppArmor, seccomp



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Restrict a Container's Access to Resources with AppArmor](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/clusters/apparmor/)

* [Restrict a Container's Syscalls with Seccomp](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/clusters/seccomp/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Kubernetes Hardening Best Practices](https://www.sumologic.com/kubernetes/security/#security-best-practices)

* [Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Application by Liz Rice](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1665891/Assets/Container%20Security%20by%20Liz%20Rice%20-%20OReilly%20Apr%202020.pdf)



## Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities (20%)

Setup appropriate OS level security domains e.g. using PSP, OPA, security contexts



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Pod Security Policies](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/)

* [Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/security-context/)

* [OPA Gatekeeper: Policy and Governance for Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/08/06/opa-gatekeeper-policy-and-governance-for-kubernetes/)

* [Kubernetes security context, security policy, and network policy – Kubernetes security guide (part 2)](https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-security-psp-network-policy/)



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Open Policy Agent Introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yup1FUc2Qn0)

* [Enforce policies on Kubernetes objects with OPA](https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/v0.12.2/kubernetes-admission-control/)

* [Pod Security Policy](https://blog.alcide.io/pod-security-policy)



Manage kubernetes secrets



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Kubernetes Secrets](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/)

* [Encrypting Secret Data at Rest](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-data/)

* [Using a KMS provider for data encryption](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kms-provider/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [katacoda lab around Secrets](https://www.katacoda.com/courses/kubernetes/managing-secrets)

* [Managing Secrets in Kubernetes](https://www.weave.works/blog/managing-secrets-in-kubernetes)

* [Secrets Store CSI driver](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver)

* [How to Manage Secrets in Kubernetes](https://spacelift.io/blog/kubernetes-secrets)  



Use container runtime sandboxes in multi-tenant environments (e.g. gvisor, kata containers)



#### Allowed Ressources

* [container runtime](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/runtime-class/)

* [container runtime sandboxes examples](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-node/585-runtime-class/README.md#examples)

* [Enforce tenant isolation (Limit Ranges, Quotas, PSPs) with Policies](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/)

* [Affinity and anti-affinity](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/#affinity-and-anti-affinity)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [What is gVisor?](https://gvisor.dev/docs/)

* [Cluster multi-tenancy](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/multitenancy-overview)

* [Use gVisor to run Kubernetes pods](https://gvisor.dev/docs/user_guide/quick_start/kubernetes/)

* [Implementing secure Containers using Google’s gVisor](https://thenewstack.io/how-to-implement-secure-containers-using-googles-gvisor/)

* [Kata containers and Kubernetes: How they fit together?](https://platform9.com/blog/kata-containers-docker-and-kubernetes-how-they-all-fit-together/)

* [How to use Kata Containers with Kubernetes?](https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/blob/master/how-to/how-to-use-k8s-with-cri-containerd-and-kata.md)



Implement pod to pod encryption by use of mTLS

  

#### Allowed Ressources

* [Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tls/managing-tls-in-a-cluster/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Secure communication between services in Istio with mutual TLS](https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/containers/tutorials/istio-security-mtls/)

* [Mutual TLS Authentication (mTLS) De-Mystified](https://codeburst.io/mutual-tls-authentication-mtls-de-mystified-11fa2a52e9cf)

* [Traffic encryption using mTLS](https://www.istioworkshop.io/11-security/01-mtls/)

* [Using Istio to improve end-to-end security](https://istio.io/latest/blog/2017/0.1-auth/)

* [Linerd: automatic mtls](https://linkerd.io/2/features/automatic-mtls/)



## Supply Chain Security (20%)



Minimize base image footprint



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Why build small container images in Kubernetes](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/kubernetes-best-practices-how-and-why-to-build-small-container-images)

* [Use the smallest base image possible](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers#build-the-smallest-image-possible)

* [7 best practices for building containers](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/7-best-practices-for-building-containers)

* [distroless containers](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless)

* [Docker multi-stage builds](https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/)

* [Tips to Reduce Docker Image Sizes](https://hackernoon.com/tips-to-reduce-docker-image-sizes-876095da3b34)

* [3 simple tricks for smaller Docker images](https://learnk8s.io/blog/smaller-docker-images)



Secure your supply chain: whitelist allowed image registries, sign and validate images



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Using Admission Controllers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/)

* [Dynamic Admission Control](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/extensible-admission-controllers/)

* [A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/03/21/a-guide-to-kubernetes-admission-controllers/)

* [Ensure images only from approved sources are run](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/22888)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Content trust in Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/trust/content_trust/)

* [How to reject docker registries in Kubernetes?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54463125/how-to-reject-docker-registries-in-kubernetes)

* [Restrict pulling images from Registry](https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/kubernetes-primer/)

* [Container image signatures in Kubernetes](https://medium.com/sse-blog/container-image-signatures-in-kubernetes-19264ac5d8ce)



Use static analysis of user workloads (e.g. kubernetes resources, docker files)



#### Allowed Ressources

* [11 Ways (Not) to Get Hacked: statically-analyse-yaml](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/07/18/11-ways-not-to-get-hacked/#7-statically-analyse-yaml)



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Trivy](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy)

* [Static analysis with Clair](https://github.com/quay/clair)

* [Static analysis with Kube-score](https://kube-score.com/)

* [kubehunter](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-hunter)

* [kubesec](https://kubesec.io/)

* [Kubernetes static code analysis with Checkov](https://bridgecrew.io/blog/kubernetes-static-code-analysis-with-checkov/)



Scan images for known vulnerabilities

  

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Trivy](https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy)



## Monitoring, Logging and Runtime Security (20%)



Perform behavioral analytics of syscall process and file activities at the host and container level to detect malicious activities



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Restrict a Container's Syscalls with Seccomp](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/clusters/seccomp/)

* [Auditing with Falco (Obsoledted)](https://v1-16.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/falco/)

* [How to detect a Kubernetes vulnerability using Falco](https://sysdig.com/blog/how-to-detect-kubernetes-vulnerability-cve-2019-11246-using-falco/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Kubernetes Security monitoring at scale](https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/kubernetes-security-monitoring-at-scale-with-sysdig-falco-a60cfdb0f67a)



Detect threats within physical infrastructure, apps, networks, data, users and workloads



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Common Kubernetes config security threats](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/07/common-kubernetes-config-security-threats/)

* [A guidance on Kubernetes threat modeling](https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/virtualization-and-cloud/guidance-on-kubernetes-threat-modeling)

* [Threat matrix for Kubernetes](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/02/attack-matrix-kubernetes/)



Detect all phases of attack regardless where it occurs and how it spreads



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Investigating Kubernetes attack scenarios in Threat Stack](https://www.threatstack.com/blog/kubernetes-attack-scenarios-part-1)

* [Anatomy of a Kubernetes attack – How untrusted Docker images fails us](https://www.optiv.com/explore-optiv-insights/source-zero/anatomy-kubernetes-attack-how-untrusted-docker-images-fail-us)

* [Investigating Kubernetes Attack Scenarios in Threat Stack (part 1)](https://www.threatstack.com/blog/kubernetes-attack-scenarios-part-1)

* [The seven phases of a cyber attack](https://www.dnvgl.com/article/the-seven-phases-of-a-cyber-attack-118270)

* [Threat matrix for Kubernetes](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/02/attack-matrix-kubernetes/)

* [MITRE ATT&CK framework for container runtime security with Falco](https://sysdig.com/blog/mitre-attck-framework-for-container-runtime-security-with-sysdig-falco/)

* [Mitigating Kubernetes attacks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWv8ZKLCawM)



Perform deep analytical investigation and identification of bad actors within environment



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Kubernetes security 101: Risks and Best practices](https://www.stackrox.com/post/2020/05/kubernetes-security-101/)



Ensure immutability of containers at runtime



#### Allowed Ressources

* ["ReadOnlyRootFilesystem" (securityContext, PSP)](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/#volumes-and-file-systems)

* ["readOnly" volume mount](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/#volumes-and-file-systems)

* [Principles of Container-based Application Design](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/03/principles-of-container-app-design/)

#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [Leverage Kubernetes to ensure that containers are immutable](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux_atomic_host/7/html/container_security_guide/keeping_containers_fresh_and_updateable#leveraging_kubernetes_and_openshift_to_ensure_that_containers_are_immutable)

* [Why I think we should all use immutable Docker images](https://medium.com/sroze/why-i-think-we-should-all-use-immutable-docker-images-9f4fdcb5212f)

* [With immutable infrastructure, your systems can rise from the dead](https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/immutable-infrastructure-your-systems-can-rise-dead)



Use Audit Logs to monitor access



#### Allowed Ressources

* [Kubernetes Audit](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/audit/)

* [Kubernetes Audit logging](https://docs.sysdig.com/en/kubernetes-audit-logging.html)



#### 3rd Party Ressources

* [How to monitor Kubernetes audit logs?](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-kubernetes-audit-logs/)

* [Kubernetes Audit: Making Log Auditing a Viable Practice Again](https://blog.alcide.io/kubernetes-audit-making-log-auditing-a-viable-practice-again)



# Related Kubernetes security resources

* [Kubernetes Security Essentials (LFS260)](https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-security-essentials-lfs260/)

* [Cloud Native Security Tutorial](https://tutorial.kubernetes-security.info/)

* [Killer Shell CKS Simulator](https://killer.sh/cks)

* [Sysdig Kubernetes Security Guide](https://sysdig.com/resources/ebooks/kubernetes-security-guide/)

* [Kubernetes Security Best Practices - Ian Lewis, Google](https://youtu.be/wqsUfvRyYpw)

* [Kubernetes security concepts and demos](https://youtu.be/VjlvS-qiz_U)

* [Tutorial: Getting Started With Cloud Native Security - Liz Rice, Aqua Security & Michael Hausenblas](https://youtu.be/MisS3wSds40)

* [11 Ways (Not) to Get Hacked](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/07/18/11-ways-not-to-get-hacked/)

* [Kubernetes Goat](https://github.com/madhuakula/kubernetes-goat)

* [Kubernetes CTF on vagrant environment](https://github.com/NodyHub/k8s-ctf-rocks)

* [Udemy Kubernetes CKS 2020 Complete Course and killer.sh Simulator](https://www.udemy.com/course/certified-kubernetes-security-specialist/)

* [NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance 08/2021](https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR_KUBERNETES%20HARDENING%20GUIDANCE.PDF)

### White Papers

* [CNCF cloud-native security white paper Nov 2020](https://github.com/cncf/sig-security/blob/master/security-whitepaper/CNCF_cloud-native-security-whitepaper-Nov2020.pdf)



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