Threat Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Support in Security Center
Published date: 04 November, 2019
Kubernetes is quickly becoming the new standard for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Few people have extensive experience with Kubernetes and many only focus on general engineering and administration, and overlook the security aspect. Kubernetes environment needs to be configured carefully to be secure, making sure that no container-focused attack surface doors are left open and exposed to attackers. Security Center is expanding its support in the container space to one of the fastest growing services in Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
The new capabilities in this public preview release include:
- Discovery & Visibility – Continuous discovery of managed AKS instances within Security Center’s registered subscriptions.
- Secure Score recommendations – Actionable items to help customers comply with security best practices in AKS as part of the customer’s Secure Score, such as “Role-based Access Control should be used to restrict access to a Kubernetes Service Cluster2.
- Threat Detection – Host and cluster-based analytics, such as “A privileged container detected”.