From Vulnerability to Visibility: Demystifying Starboard Infrastructure Scan Reports

In previous posts,How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster and Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide, I started working through the different security reports available from the Starboard security scanner. The next step is to begin reviewing starboard Infrastructure Scans for security insights. Getting an Infrastructure Report After installing Starboard, I waited for it to run and generate all kinds of reports....

December 16, 2023 · 5 min · Scott

Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide

In my How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster post, I first installed Starboard and reviewed a vulnerability scan report. After reviewing the results, I then tried to action some of the vulnerabilities in my MySQL deployment. In addition to vulnerability scans, Starboard can also conduct configuration audits of your Kubernetes deployment. I wanted to review those next and walk through a Kubernetes audit report action plan....

December 9, 2023 · 12 min · Scott

How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster

In my Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures post, I started to tinker with SecOps a little with Terrascan. I also stumbled upon another tool called Starboard from Aqua security. In this post, I’m going to focus on using Starboard installation and usage as a Kubernetes Operator to see how it works. Getting Started The installation of Starboard seems pretty easy as you can either use kubectl or helm....

November 24, 2023 · 9 min · Scott

Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: A Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Essential Security Measures

If you take a look at this blog, you’ll see that I’ve begun to tinker with devops quite a bit. If you’ve ever taken the trouble to look me up on LinkedIn, you’ll also see that I’ve had a little history doing security stuff. Given my love of security, the next logical step of my devops journey was to start to look into securing the CI/CD pipeline. My previous posts were some ways that I was able to make my own personal infrastructure easier to maintain while at the same time learning various devops tools....

November 16, 2023 · 13 min · Scott

Tuning My Content Security Policy

In my Getting Started With a Content Security Policy post, I setup a report only CSP policy so that I could try and identify things that could test out a policy before implementing it. It is time to parse through the results and see what needs to be updated in my deployed policy. The original policy was very simple default-src https Inspecting The Violations I started trying to look at the current violations and I think it was clear that I had a rather permissive Content Security Policy because nothing much was being blocked....

October 16, 2022 · 2 min · Scott