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The ./havoc Podcast - Andrew Martin: Hacking Kubernetes

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In this episode of The ./havoc Podcast Cybersecurity Research series, Andrew Martin, co-author of Hacking Kubernetes (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN: 9781492081739) provides an in-depth look into how his experience advising clients on securing production Kubernetes clusters resulted in a comprehensive and masterfully written book that any CISO, Security Engineer or Incident Responder responsible for securing and monitoring Kubernetes should not go without.

Hacking Kubernetes book

OpenUK

OpenSSF

The Linux Programming Interface

Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is a co-founder at ControlPlane ( Andrew has presented at international conferences including KubeCon, Velocity, SANS, OWASP, DevOpsDays, Container Camp, IPExpo, and numerous other local events and meetups.

00:00 Start

00:52 Andy's background and book motivations

05:20 Piracy for the win!

07:15 Taking up the mantle of the CISO

11:20 Let's talk about Threat Modeling

20:40 Escaping containers

25:39 Linux fundamentals

31:31 Hard multitenancy

36:17 Open source IDS

39:39 One take away (or maybe three takeaways)

44:27 Rapidfire round

49:11 Wrap up

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