detecting-privilege-escalation-in-kubernetes-pods
Detect and prevent privilege escalation in Kubernetes pods by monitoring security contexts, capabilities, and syscall patterns with Falco and OPA policies.
Detect and prevent privilege escalation in Kubernetes pods by monitoring security contexts, capabilities, and syscall patterns with Falco and OPA policies.
Enforce Kubernetes network segmentation using Calico CNI network policies and global network policies to control pod-to-pod traffic, restrict egress, and implement zero-trust microsegmentation.
Envelope encryption is a strategy where data is encrypted with a data encryption key (DEK), and the DEK itself is encrypted with a master key (KEK) managed by AWS KMS. This approach allows encrypting
Implement Kubernetes network segmentation using Calico NetworkPolicy and GlobalNetworkPolicy for zero-trust pod-to-pod communication.
Pod Security Standards (PSS) define three levels of security policies -- Privileged, Baseline, and Restricted -- enforced by the Pod Security Admission (PSA) controller built into Kubernetes 1.25+. PS
Kubernetes NetworkPolicies provide pod-level network segmentation by defining ingress and egress rules that control traffic flow between pods, namespaces, and external endpoints. Combined with CNI plu
Enforce Kubernetes admission policies using OPA Gatekeeper with ConstraintTemplates, Rego rules, and the Gatekeeper policy library.
Implement Kubernetes Pod Security Admission to enforce baseline and restricted security profiles at namespace level using built-in admission controller.
This skill covers deploying HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management across cloud environments, including dynamic secret generation for databases and cloud providers, transit encryption, PKI certificate management, and Kubernetes integration. It addresses eliminating hardcoded credentials from application code and CI/CD pipelines by implementing short-lived, automatically rotated secrets.
This skill covers hardening container images by minimizing attack surface, removing unnecessary packages, implementing multi-stage builds, configuring non-root users, and applying CIS Docker Benchmark recommendations to produce secure production-ready images.
Audit Kubernetes cluster security posture against CIS benchmarks using kube-bench with automated checks for control plane, worker nodes, and RBAC.
Perform security risk analysis on Kubernetes resource manifests using Kubesec to identify misconfigurations, privilege escalation risks, and deviations from security best practices.
Secure Helm chart deployments by validating chart integrity, scanning templates for misconfigurations, and enforcing security contexts in Kubernetes releases.
This skill covers hardening managed Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS, and GKE by implementing Pod Security Standards, network policies, workload identity, RBAC scoping, image admission controls, and runtime security monitoring. It addresses cloud-specific security features including IRSA for EKS, Workload Identity for GKE, and Managed Identities for AKS.
Scans GitHub Actions workflows and CI/CD pipeline configurations for supply chain attack vectors including unpinned actions, script injection via expressions, dependency confusion, and secrets exposure. Uses PyGithub and YAML parsing for automated audit. Use when hardening CI/CD pipelines or investigating compromised build systems.
Configure GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL to perform automated static analysis and vulnerability detection across repositories at enterprise scale.
This skill covers implementing Gitleaks for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets in git repositories. It addresses configuring pre-commit hooks, CI/CD pipeline integration, custom rule authoring for organization-specific secrets, baseline management for existing repositories, and remediation workflows for exposed credentials.
This skill covers hardening GitHub Actions workflows against supply chain attacks, credential theft, and privilege escalation. It addresses pinning actions to SHA digests, minimizing GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, protecting secrets from exfiltration, preventing script injection in workflow expressions, and implementing required reviewers for workflow changes.
Configure microsegmentation policies to enforce least-privilege workload-to-workload access using tools like VMware NSX, Illumio, and Calico, preventing lateral movement in zero trust architectures.
Deploys and configures CrowdStrike Falcon EDR agents across enterprise endpoints to enable real-time threat detection, behavioral analysis, and automated response. Use when onboarding endpoints to EDR coverage, configuring detection policies, or integrating Falcon telemetry with SIEM platforms. Activates for requests involving CrowdStrike deployment, Falcon sensor installation, EDR policy configuration, or endpoint detection and response.
Configure Fluentd and Fluent Bit for centralized log aggregation, routing, filtering, and enrichment across distributed infrastructure
Detects lateral movement techniques including Pass-the-Hash, PsExec, WMI execution, RDP pivoting, and SMB-based spreading using SIEM correlation of Windows event logs, network flow data, and endpoint telemetry mapped to MITRE ATT&CK Lateral Movement (TA0008) techniques.
Run GPU workloads on Modal's serverless infrastructure. Use when the user needs remote GPU compute for training, inference, benchmarks, or batch processing and Modal CLI is available.
Publish a GitHub release for the C# MCP SDK after a prepare-release PR has been merged. Refreshes release notes to include any PRs merged since preparation, warns about version or breaking change impacts from late-arriving PRs, and creates a draft GitHub release. Use when asked to publish a release, finalize a release, create release notes, or complete a release after the prepare-release PR has been merged.