Seven Guidelines for Implementing Zero Trust in Kubernetes
Seven Guidelines for Implementing Zero Trust in Kubernetes In the wake of a seemingly endless parade of catastrophic security breaches and ransomware attacks, the Biden Administration hit the gas pedal in May 2021 with an executive order mandating improvements to the nation’s security technology and specifically calling out the need for zero trust (ZT) security models. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) followed up in August with a whitepaper defining Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and exploring “deployment models and use cases where ZT could improve an enterprise’s overall information technology security posture”. Various government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of Management and Budget, are releasing documents to guide ZT implementation, including a maturity model to help implementers understand the journey to full ZT deployment. The Kubernetes community has been discussing ZT for [ more… ]
