Container Monitoring and Security with Sysdig

The new era of application development has enabled microservices based architecture and has lead to increase in container adoption and orchestrators such as Kuberenetes. Containers have many benefits, including scalability, agility, cost reduction and rapid application development. While containers are advantageous to development teams, they bring new security risk and potential threats to the organization. Security Team may face following challenges -

Lack of Visibility and Governance - Visibility becomes a challenge with an ephemeral nature of containers and activities inside containers are invisible to security team with existing security tools Lack of Standardization - Traditional Security Standards, Practice and Methodologies are not the right fit for containerized environment which results in expose to security risk. Lack of Expertise - A shortage of skilled resources and steep learning curves often results in software configuration errors Lack of Automation - Due to the complexity and dynamic nature of a containerized environment, container security must be fully automated and embedding it into all stages of the SDLC

When it come to Container and Orchestration on Public Cloud, providers are only responsible for the security of the cloud, including container infrastructure. However for security inside the cloud, it becomes responsibility of each organization/Customer to set up proper protections for the contents of individual containers, data, and overall service configuration.

Sysdig offers Cloud-Native Intelligence unified platform to deliver security, monitoring, cost optimization and forensics and microservices-friendly architecture integrated with Docker and Kubernetes. This closes the cloud-native visibility gap, giving a consistent way to manage the risk, health, and performance of systems, applications and microservices within and across clouds. This enable DevOps, security professionals, and service owners to reliably build, run and respond to critical issues with Kubernetes and containers in production.

Sysdig Monitor captures, correlates, and visualizes full-stack data, and provides dashboards for monitoring your cloud-native environment. Sysdig Secure takes a services-aware approach to protect workloads while bringing deep cloud and container visibility, posture management (compliance, benchmarks, CIEM), vulnerability scanning, forensics and threat detection and blocking.

In the background, the Sysdig agent lives on the hosts being monitored and collects the appropriate metrics and events.

Salient Features

1. Offers host and image scanning, auditing, and runtime vulnerability management capabilities
2. Easy Integration with CI/CD tools. Automate scanning within CI/CD pipelines and registries, efficiently flag vulnerabilities, identify owners, and block deployment of images exploitable at runtime
3. Provide Security Posture Management
4. Monitor real-time application performance at any level of the infrastructure stack and Auto-detect anomalies
5. Correlate metrics and events, and compare with past performance
6. Accelerate problem resolution by analyzing system call activity
7. Provides runtime detection and data enrichment
8. Supports incident response and forensics by drill down from policy violations into 100% granularity captures of pre- and post-attack activity