Container Security

To facilitate scalability and resilience, many organizations now run applications in cloud native environments using containers and orchestration. But how do you know if the deployment is secure? This practical book examines key underlying technologies to help developers, operators, and security professionals assess security risks and determine appropriate solutions.
Author Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security, looks at how the building blocks commonly used in container-based systems are constructed in Linux. You'll understand what's happening when you deploy containers and learn how to assess potential security risks that could affect your deployments. If you run container applications with kubectl or docker and use Linux command-line tools such as ps and grep, you're ready to get started.Explore attack vectors that affect container deploymentsDive into the Linux constructs that underpin containersExamine measures for hardening containersUnderstand how misconfigurations can compromise container isolationLearn best practices for building container imagesIdentify container images that have known software vulnerabilitiesLeverage secure connections between containersUse security tooling to prevent attacks on your deployment

Liz Rice is VP Open Source Engineering with container security specialists Aqua Security, looking after projects including Trivy, Tracee, kube-hunter and kube-bench. She is chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, and was co-chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 events in Copenhagen, Shanghai and Seattle.
She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.