GKE CIS Benchmarks deliver security best practices | Google Cloud Blog
If you’re serious about the security of your Kubernetes operating environment, you need to build on a strong foundation. The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Kubernetes Benchmark give you just that: a set of Kubernetes security best practices that will help you build an operating environment that meets the approval of both regulators and customers. The CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.5.0 was recently released, covering environments up to Kubernetes v1.15. Written as a series of recommendations rather than as a must-do checklist, the Benchmarks follows the upstream version of Kubernetes. But for users running managed distributions such as our own Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), not all of its recommendations are applicable. To help, we’ve released in conjunction with CIS, a new CIS Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Benchmark, available under the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, which takes the guesswork out of figuring out which CIS Benchmark recommendations you need to implement, and which ones
Containers & Kubernetes Exploring container security: Announcing the CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark January 15, 2020 Maya Kaczorowski Product Manager, Container Security Mark Wolters Software Engineer, GKE security If you’re serious about the security of your Kubernetes operating environment, you need to build on a strong foundation. The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Kubernetes Benchmark give you just that: a set of Kubernetes security best practices that will help you build an operating environment that meets the approval of both regulators and customers. The CIS Kubernetes Ben
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