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Published inDec 2021
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803230030
Edition2nd Edition
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Marc Boorshtein
Marc Boorshtein
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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich
Scott Surovich
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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Introducing Falco

Falco is an open source system from Sysdig that adds anomaly detection functionality for pods in Kubernetes clusters. Out of the box, Falco includes a base set of powerful, community-created rules that can monitor a number of potentially malicious events, including the following:

  • When a user attempts to modify a file under /etc
  • When a user spawns a shell on a pod
  • When a user stores sensitive information in a secret
  • When a pod attempts to make a call to the Kubernetes API server
  • Any attempts to modify a system ClusterRole
  • Or any other custom rule you create to meet your needs

When Falco is running on a Kubernetes cluster it watches events, and based on a set of rules, it logs events on the Falco pod that can be picked up by a system such as Fluentd, which would then forward the event to an external logging system.

In this chapter, we will explain the configuration of Falco using the technical requirements for our...

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Published in: Dec 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803230030

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Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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