Kubernetes Security Best Practices for Enterprise DevOps Teams
One misconfigured pod or overprivileged service account could cost your enterprise millions. As a DevOps leader, you're under constant pressure to deliver velocity while maintaining compliance, audit readiness, and cyber resilience. The stakes have never been higher, and the attack surface is growing exponentially with every new microservice deployed. You know Kubernetes is critical to your organisation’s infrastructure, but default configurations rarely meet enterprise-grade security standards. Vulnerabilities in RBAC, network policies, or image supply chains aren’t theoretical risks-they’re active threats being exploited daily across industries just like yours. Traditional training doesn’t go deep enough. You need actionable, battle-tested guidance tailored to large-scale environments with complex regulatory requirements, legacy integrations, and distributed teams. Generic advice won’t protect your clusters or earn you a seat at the executive risk table. This is where Kubernetes Security Best Practices for Enterprise DevOps Teams changes everything. This program gives you a direct path from insecure defaults to hardened, auditable, production-ready security controls-complete with a board-ready compliance framework and a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, globally recognised for technical excellence. One senior platform engineer at a Fortune 500 fintech used these methods to reduce their mean-time-to-respond to cluster breaches from 47 hours to under 22 minutes, achieving SOC 2 compliance within 6 weeks. No prior security specialisation-just precise, step-by-step implementation of the strategies in this course. You don’t need more theory. You need clarity, control, and confidence. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details This is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience designed for enterprise DevOps professionals who need real-world impact without disrupting delivery cycles. From the moment your access is confirmed, you’ll be able to progress through the curriculum at your own pace-with no fixed dates, deadlines, or mandatory sessions. Immediate Access, Zero Time Commitment
The course is fully on-demand, allowing you to learn during downtime between sprints or integrate concepts directly into ongoing initiatives. Most learners complete the core modules in 12–15 hours and begin implementing high-impact security improvements within days. Because the content is modular and outcome-focused, you can prioritise areas that align with your current risk exposure-like securing CI/CD pipelines or locking down multi-tenancy-without completing the entire program first. Lifetime Access & Continuous Updates
Once enrolled, you receive lifetime access to all course materials. This includes every update as Kubernetes evolves, new CVEs emerge, and regulatory expectations shift. There are no subscription fees, no renewal costs, and no paywalls to future content-everything is included forever. Security isn’t static. Your knowledge shouldn’t expire. Global, Mobile-Friendly Learning
Access all materials 24/7 from any device-laptop, tablet, or phone. Whether you're commuting, at home, or between meetings, the interface is optimised for fast navigation, progress tracking, and offline-ready downloads. Study when it works for you, wherever you are. Dedicated Instructor Support & Guidance
You’re not learning alone. This course includes ongoing instructor support through a private, moderated channel where subject-matter experts respond to implementation questions, configuration patterns, and real-time troubleshooting. This isn’t automated chat-it’s direct technical guidance from professionals who’ve secured Kubernetes at scale in finance, healthcare, and government. Certificate of Completion – Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service-trusted by over 120,000 IT and cybersecurity professionals worldwide. This certification validates your mastery of enterprise-grade Kubernetes security and strengthens your professional credibility with auditors, executives, and hiring managers alike. It’s more than a credential. It’s proof you’ve closed critical gaps that most teams ignore-until it’s too late. Transparent Pricing, No Hidden Fees
The enrolment fee is straightforward with no surprise charges. What you see is exactly what you pay-no upsells, no recurring billing traps, and no hidden costs for updates or support. Payment Options
We accept all major payment methods including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. Organisational purchase orders are also supported upon request. Zero-Risk Enrollment – Satisfied or Refunded
We stand behind the value of this course with a full money-back guarantee. If you complete the first two modules and feel the content doesn’t meet your expectations for technical depth, clarity, or applicability, simply request a refund. No questions, no hoops. Onboarding & Delivery
After enrolment, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Once your course access is provisioned, you’ll receive separate instructions with login details and setup guidance. This ensures a smooth, secure, and scalable rollout-even for team-wide deployments. This Works Even If…
- You’re not a security specialist but are responsible for securing clusters in production
- Your organisation uses hybrid or multi-cloud Kubernetes environments
- You work under strict compliance mandates like PCI DSS, HIPAA, or GDPR
- Your team lacks consistent security tooling or standardised policies
- You’ve already suffered a near-miss breach due to misconfiguration
Former Google SRE Margaret Lin used this program after her company faced a regulatory audit failure stemming from excessive pod privileges. Using the role-based access control audit template from Module 3, she mapped all service accounts across 37 clusters and reduced overprivileged identities by 92% in under four weeks-earning executive recognition and a promotion. This course eliminates the guesswork and delivers actionable, repeatable, and verifiable security practices. Your success isn’t left to chance.
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Kubernetes Security - Understanding the shared responsibility model in Kubernetes environments
- Analysing common attack vectors in container orchestration
- Defining security domains across control plane and data plane
- Mapping the principle of least privilege to cluster operations
- Establishing security baselines using CIS Benchmarks v1.23
- Implementing immutable infrastructure patterns for reduced drift
- Integrating security into the DevOps mindset and culture
- Assessing organisational readiness for Kubernetes security maturity
- Documenting security policies for audit and compliance reporting
- Creating a centralised security governance model for distributed teams
Module 2: Cluster Hardening and Configuration Security - Securing etcd with encryption at rest and strict access controls
- Hardening the API server with TLS termination and secure flags
- Disabling legacy and risky APIs such as legacy authentication endpoints
- Configuring kubelet with read-only ports disabled and secure flags
- Enforcing secure proxy and scheduler configurations
- Setting up role-based access to control plane components
- Validating control plane audit logging at all critical levels
- Isolating node roles using taints, labels, and dedicated pools
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles at node level
- Auditing default component configurations across managed providers
- Automating configuration drift detection using policy-as-code
- Integrating Open Policy Agent for pre-deployment validation
- Generating and rotating certificates using cert-manager
- Establishing node auto-repair and secure boot workflows
- Implementing control plane backups with access-restricted storage
Module 3: Identity and Access Management (IAM) at Scale - Architecting RBAC for enterprise-wide role separation
- Designing custom roles and role bindings with least privilege
- Creating namespace-scoped access policies for multi-team environments
- Integrating external identity providers using OIDC and LDAP
- Mapping human users and service accounts to least-privilege roles
- Rotating service account tokens with automated workflows
- Disabling default service accounts and enforcing custom ones
- Validating token review and subject access review integrations
- Implementing access reviews using kubectl auth can-i
- Monitoring privilege escalation attempts in real time
- Enforcing just-in-time access using short-lived tokens
- Creating access certification workflows for quarterly audits
- Building role ownership and stewardship models
- Generating access heatmaps across clusters and namespaces
- Analysing service account sprawl and deprecating unused identities
- Using Kubernetes audit logs to trace access patterns
- Creating service account naming conventions for traceability
- Integrating with enterprise IAM systems like Okta and Azure AD
Module 4: Secure Networking and Traffic Control - Understanding pod-to-pod communication risks
- Implementing NetworkPolicy objects for default-deny enforcement
- Creating ingress and egress rules per namespace and pod label
- Testing policy effectiveness with micro-segmentation checks
- Securing ingress controllers with WAF integration and TLS offload
- Isolating management traffic from application data planes
- Enforcing mTLS between services using service mesh sidecars
- Analysing North-South vs East-West traffic patterns
- Integrating network observability tools like Cilium and Calico
- Preventing lateral movement through zero-trust segmentation
- Blocking outbound access to known malicious IPs and domains
- Validating DNS policy enforcement within clusters
- Securing DNS queries and response policies
- Using network flow logs for anomaly detection
- Setting up network policy versioning and drift monitoring
- Enforcing mutual TLS using Istio with strict mode
- Hardening CNI plugins against privilege escalation
- Controlling egress traffic through proxy gateways
Module 5: Securing Container Images and Supply Chain Integrity - Analysing risks in public container registries
- Maintaining a private, signed image registry with role-based access
- Scanning container images for CVEs using Trivy, Clair, and Snyk
- Integrating image scanning into CI pipelines as gate checks
- Signing images using Cosign and Sigstore for integrity verification
- Enforcing image provenance with SLSA Level 3+ builds
- Validating SBOM generation and vulnerability correlation
- Blocking unsigned or unscanned images using admission controllers
- Implementing policy-based admission with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Creating trusted image allowlists by namespace or team
- Enforcing minimal base images using distroless and scratch
- Reducing attack surface by removing shell access and debug tools
- Hardening Dockerfiles with non-root users and read-only layers
- Analysing image metadata for hidden backdoors and trojans
- Automating vulnerability reporting and ticketing integration
- Creating image promotion workflows from dev to prod
- Integrating with artifact signing and verification systems
- Monitoring for image drift in running pods
- Enforcing registry access logging and anomaly alerts
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring for anomalous process execution inside containers
- Deploying eBPF-based runtime security agents like Falco
- Creating custom detection rules for suspicious system calls
- Alerting on shell spawning, privilege escalation, and crypto mining
- Integrating detection tools with SIEM platforms
- Correlating runtime events with network and identity logs
- Setting up automated response actions using event-driven functions
- Analysing container breakout attempts using namespace checks
- Validating hostPath and privileged container usage
- Enforcing container resource limits to prevent denial-of-service
- Tracking unapproved binary execution in production
- Monitoring for unexpected outbound connections
- Building behavioural baselines for normal pod activity
- Creating playbooks for incident response and containment
- Testing detection coverage with red team exercises
- Enabling real-time alerting via Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie
- Analysing false positives and tuning detection sensitivity
- Archiving security events for forensic investigations
Module 7: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Designing a centralised policy repository for all teams
- Writing reusable Rego policies for OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing pod security standards using PSP replacements
- Validating pod security compliance using kubestat
- Creating policies to block high-risk configurations
- Implementing automated rollback of non-compliant deployments
- Integrating Kyverno with GitHub Actions for pull request checks
- Generating policy violation reports for audit teams
- Managing policy lifecycle with version control and testing
- Enabling audit-only mode for policy transition periods
- Using constraint templates for multi-cluster consistency
- Monitoring policy enforcement coverage across environments
- Creating exceptions workflows with approval tracking
- Integrating policy violations into Jira or ServiceNow
- Reporting policy metrics to executive dashboards
- Setting up policy drift alerts and reconciliation jobs
Module 8: Securing CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Workflows - Analysing risks in CI/CD agents running in Kubernetes
- Hardening Jenkins, Argo CD, and Flux agents with least privilege
- Isolating pipeline workloads using dedicated namespaces
- Securing pipeline secrets using external secret managers
- Validating GitOps pull model vs push model security trade-offs
- Signing Git commits and manifests using GPG
- Enforcing code review and approval gates for production changes
- Implementing automated rollback triggers on security failures
- Integrating static analysis tools into pull request workflows
- Scanning Helm charts for insecure configurations
- Validating infrastructure-as-code templates with tfsec and checkov
- Protecting Argo CD with SSO and MFA integration
- Auditing deployment history and rollback capabilities
- Limiting pipeline agent permissions to required scopes
- Enabling end-to-end traceability from commit to deployment
- Creating pipeline security health dashboards
- Automating drift detection in GitOps-synced clusters
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Understanding the shared responsibility model in Kubernetes environments
- Analysing common attack vectors in container orchestration
- Defining security domains across control plane and data plane
- Mapping the principle of least privilege to cluster operations
- Establishing security baselines using CIS Benchmarks v1.23
- Implementing immutable infrastructure patterns for reduced drift
- Integrating security into the DevOps mindset and culture
- Assessing organisational readiness for Kubernetes security maturity
- Documenting security policies for audit and compliance reporting
- Creating a centralised security governance model for distributed teams
Module 2: Cluster Hardening and Configuration Security - Securing etcd with encryption at rest and strict access controls
- Hardening the API server with TLS termination and secure flags
- Disabling legacy and risky APIs such as legacy authentication endpoints
- Configuring kubelet with read-only ports disabled and secure flags
- Enforcing secure proxy and scheduler configurations
- Setting up role-based access to control plane components
- Validating control plane audit logging at all critical levels
- Isolating node roles using taints, labels, and dedicated pools
- Applying seccomp, AppArmor, and SELinux profiles at node level
- Auditing default component configurations across managed providers
- Automating configuration drift detection using policy-as-code
- Integrating Open Policy Agent for pre-deployment validation
- Generating and rotating certificates using cert-manager
- Establishing node auto-repair and secure boot workflows
- Implementing control plane backups with access-restricted storage
Module 3: Identity and Access Management (IAM) at Scale - Architecting RBAC for enterprise-wide role separation
- Designing custom roles and role bindings with least privilege
- Creating namespace-scoped access policies for multi-team environments
- Integrating external identity providers using OIDC and LDAP
- Mapping human users and service accounts to least-privilege roles
- Rotating service account tokens with automated workflows
- Disabling default service accounts and enforcing custom ones
- Validating token review and subject access review integrations
- Implementing access reviews using kubectl auth can-i
- Monitoring privilege escalation attempts in real time
- Enforcing just-in-time access using short-lived tokens
- Creating access certification workflows for quarterly audits
- Building role ownership and stewardship models
- Generating access heatmaps across clusters and namespaces
- Analysing service account sprawl and deprecating unused identities
- Using Kubernetes audit logs to trace access patterns
- Creating service account naming conventions for traceability
- Integrating with enterprise IAM systems like Okta and Azure AD
Module 4: Secure Networking and Traffic Control - Understanding pod-to-pod communication risks
- Implementing NetworkPolicy objects for default-deny enforcement
- Creating ingress and egress rules per namespace and pod label
- Testing policy effectiveness with micro-segmentation checks
- Securing ingress controllers with WAF integration and TLS offload
- Isolating management traffic from application data planes
- Enforcing mTLS between services using service mesh sidecars
- Analysing North-South vs East-West traffic patterns
- Integrating network observability tools like Cilium and Calico
- Preventing lateral movement through zero-trust segmentation
- Blocking outbound access to known malicious IPs and domains
- Validating DNS policy enforcement within clusters
- Securing DNS queries and response policies
- Using network flow logs for anomaly detection
- Setting up network policy versioning and drift monitoring
- Enforcing mutual TLS using Istio with strict mode
- Hardening CNI plugins against privilege escalation
- Controlling egress traffic through proxy gateways
Module 5: Securing Container Images and Supply Chain Integrity - Analysing risks in public container registries
- Maintaining a private, signed image registry with role-based access
- Scanning container images for CVEs using Trivy, Clair, and Snyk
- Integrating image scanning into CI pipelines as gate checks
- Signing images using Cosign and Sigstore for integrity verification
- Enforcing image provenance with SLSA Level 3+ builds
- Validating SBOM generation and vulnerability correlation
- Blocking unsigned or unscanned images using admission controllers
- Implementing policy-based admission with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Creating trusted image allowlists by namespace or team
- Enforcing minimal base images using distroless and scratch
- Reducing attack surface by removing shell access and debug tools
- Hardening Dockerfiles with non-root users and read-only layers
- Analysing image metadata for hidden backdoors and trojans
- Automating vulnerability reporting and ticketing integration
- Creating image promotion workflows from dev to prod
- Integrating with artifact signing and verification systems
- Monitoring for image drift in running pods
- Enforcing registry access logging and anomaly alerts
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring for anomalous process execution inside containers
- Deploying eBPF-based runtime security agents like Falco
- Creating custom detection rules for suspicious system calls
- Alerting on shell spawning, privilege escalation, and crypto mining
- Integrating detection tools with SIEM platforms
- Correlating runtime events with network and identity logs
- Setting up automated response actions using event-driven functions
- Analysing container breakout attempts using namespace checks
- Validating hostPath and privileged container usage
- Enforcing container resource limits to prevent denial-of-service
- Tracking unapproved binary execution in production
- Monitoring for unexpected outbound connections
- Building behavioural baselines for normal pod activity
- Creating playbooks for incident response and containment
- Testing detection coverage with red team exercises
- Enabling real-time alerting via Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie
- Analysing false positives and tuning detection sensitivity
- Archiving security events for forensic investigations
Module 7: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Designing a centralised policy repository for all teams
- Writing reusable Rego policies for OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing pod security standards using PSP replacements
- Validating pod security compliance using kubestat
- Creating policies to block high-risk configurations
- Implementing automated rollback of non-compliant deployments
- Integrating Kyverno with GitHub Actions for pull request checks
- Generating policy violation reports for audit teams
- Managing policy lifecycle with version control and testing
- Enabling audit-only mode for policy transition periods
- Using constraint templates for multi-cluster consistency
- Monitoring policy enforcement coverage across environments
- Creating exceptions workflows with approval tracking
- Integrating policy violations into Jira or ServiceNow
- Reporting policy metrics to executive dashboards
- Setting up policy drift alerts and reconciliation jobs
Module 8: Securing CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Workflows - Analysing risks in CI/CD agents running in Kubernetes
- Hardening Jenkins, Argo CD, and Flux agents with least privilege
- Isolating pipeline workloads using dedicated namespaces
- Securing pipeline secrets using external secret managers
- Validating GitOps pull model vs push model security trade-offs
- Signing Git commits and manifests using GPG
- Enforcing code review and approval gates for production changes
- Implementing automated rollback triggers on security failures
- Integrating static analysis tools into pull request workflows
- Scanning Helm charts for insecure configurations
- Validating infrastructure-as-code templates with tfsec and checkov
- Protecting Argo CD with SSO and MFA integration
- Auditing deployment history and rollback capabilities
- Limiting pipeline agent permissions to required scopes
- Enabling end-to-end traceability from commit to deployment
- Creating pipeline security health dashboards
- Automating drift detection in GitOps-synced clusters
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Architecting RBAC for enterprise-wide role separation
- Designing custom roles and role bindings with least privilege
- Creating namespace-scoped access policies for multi-team environments
- Integrating external identity providers using OIDC and LDAP
- Mapping human users and service accounts to least-privilege roles
- Rotating service account tokens with automated workflows
- Disabling default service accounts and enforcing custom ones
- Validating token review and subject access review integrations
- Implementing access reviews using kubectl auth can-i
- Monitoring privilege escalation attempts in real time
- Enforcing just-in-time access using short-lived tokens
- Creating access certification workflows for quarterly audits
- Building role ownership and stewardship models
- Generating access heatmaps across clusters and namespaces
- Analysing service account sprawl and deprecating unused identities
- Using Kubernetes audit logs to trace access patterns
- Creating service account naming conventions for traceability
- Integrating with enterprise IAM systems like Okta and Azure AD
Module 4: Secure Networking and Traffic Control - Understanding pod-to-pod communication risks
- Implementing NetworkPolicy objects for default-deny enforcement
- Creating ingress and egress rules per namespace and pod label
- Testing policy effectiveness with micro-segmentation checks
- Securing ingress controllers with WAF integration and TLS offload
- Isolating management traffic from application data planes
- Enforcing mTLS between services using service mesh sidecars
- Analysing North-South vs East-West traffic patterns
- Integrating network observability tools like Cilium and Calico
- Preventing lateral movement through zero-trust segmentation
- Blocking outbound access to known malicious IPs and domains
- Validating DNS policy enforcement within clusters
- Securing DNS queries and response policies
- Using network flow logs for anomaly detection
- Setting up network policy versioning and drift monitoring
- Enforcing mutual TLS using Istio with strict mode
- Hardening CNI plugins against privilege escalation
- Controlling egress traffic through proxy gateways
Module 5: Securing Container Images and Supply Chain Integrity - Analysing risks in public container registries
- Maintaining a private, signed image registry with role-based access
- Scanning container images for CVEs using Trivy, Clair, and Snyk
- Integrating image scanning into CI pipelines as gate checks
- Signing images using Cosign and Sigstore for integrity verification
- Enforcing image provenance with SLSA Level 3+ builds
- Validating SBOM generation and vulnerability correlation
- Blocking unsigned or unscanned images using admission controllers
- Implementing policy-based admission with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Creating trusted image allowlists by namespace or team
- Enforcing minimal base images using distroless and scratch
- Reducing attack surface by removing shell access and debug tools
- Hardening Dockerfiles with non-root users and read-only layers
- Analysing image metadata for hidden backdoors and trojans
- Automating vulnerability reporting and ticketing integration
- Creating image promotion workflows from dev to prod
- Integrating with artifact signing and verification systems
- Monitoring for image drift in running pods
- Enforcing registry access logging and anomaly alerts
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring for anomalous process execution inside containers
- Deploying eBPF-based runtime security agents like Falco
- Creating custom detection rules for suspicious system calls
- Alerting on shell spawning, privilege escalation, and crypto mining
- Integrating detection tools with SIEM platforms
- Correlating runtime events with network and identity logs
- Setting up automated response actions using event-driven functions
- Analysing container breakout attempts using namespace checks
- Validating hostPath and privileged container usage
- Enforcing container resource limits to prevent denial-of-service
- Tracking unapproved binary execution in production
- Monitoring for unexpected outbound connections
- Building behavioural baselines for normal pod activity
- Creating playbooks for incident response and containment
- Testing detection coverage with red team exercises
- Enabling real-time alerting via Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie
- Analysing false positives and tuning detection sensitivity
- Archiving security events for forensic investigations
Module 7: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Designing a centralised policy repository for all teams
- Writing reusable Rego policies for OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing pod security standards using PSP replacements
- Validating pod security compliance using kubestat
- Creating policies to block high-risk configurations
- Implementing automated rollback of non-compliant deployments
- Integrating Kyverno with GitHub Actions for pull request checks
- Generating policy violation reports for audit teams
- Managing policy lifecycle with version control and testing
- Enabling audit-only mode for policy transition periods
- Using constraint templates for multi-cluster consistency
- Monitoring policy enforcement coverage across environments
- Creating exceptions workflows with approval tracking
- Integrating policy violations into Jira or ServiceNow
- Reporting policy metrics to executive dashboards
- Setting up policy drift alerts and reconciliation jobs
Module 8: Securing CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Workflows - Analysing risks in CI/CD agents running in Kubernetes
- Hardening Jenkins, Argo CD, and Flux agents with least privilege
- Isolating pipeline workloads using dedicated namespaces
- Securing pipeline secrets using external secret managers
- Validating GitOps pull model vs push model security trade-offs
- Signing Git commits and manifests using GPG
- Enforcing code review and approval gates for production changes
- Implementing automated rollback triggers on security failures
- Integrating static analysis tools into pull request workflows
- Scanning Helm charts for insecure configurations
- Validating infrastructure-as-code templates with tfsec and checkov
- Protecting Argo CD with SSO and MFA integration
- Auditing deployment history and rollback capabilities
- Limiting pipeline agent permissions to required scopes
- Enabling end-to-end traceability from commit to deployment
- Creating pipeline security health dashboards
- Automating drift detection in GitOps-synced clusters
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Analysing risks in public container registries
- Maintaining a private, signed image registry with role-based access
- Scanning container images for CVEs using Trivy, Clair, and Snyk
- Integrating image scanning into CI pipelines as gate checks
- Signing images using Cosign and Sigstore for integrity verification
- Enforcing image provenance with SLSA Level 3+ builds
- Validating SBOM generation and vulnerability correlation
- Blocking unsigned or unscanned images using admission controllers
- Implementing policy-based admission with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Creating trusted image allowlists by namespace or team
- Enforcing minimal base images using distroless and scratch
- Reducing attack surface by removing shell access and debug tools
- Hardening Dockerfiles with non-root users and read-only layers
- Analysing image metadata for hidden backdoors and trojans
- Automating vulnerability reporting and ticketing integration
- Creating image promotion workflows from dev to prod
- Integrating with artifact signing and verification systems
- Monitoring for image drift in running pods
- Enforcing registry access logging and anomaly alerts
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring for anomalous process execution inside containers
- Deploying eBPF-based runtime security agents like Falco
- Creating custom detection rules for suspicious system calls
- Alerting on shell spawning, privilege escalation, and crypto mining
- Integrating detection tools with SIEM platforms
- Correlating runtime events with network and identity logs
- Setting up automated response actions using event-driven functions
- Analysing container breakout attempts using namespace checks
- Validating hostPath and privileged container usage
- Enforcing container resource limits to prevent denial-of-service
- Tracking unapproved binary execution in production
- Monitoring for unexpected outbound connections
- Building behavioural baselines for normal pod activity
- Creating playbooks for incident response and containment
- Testing detection coverage with red team exercises
- Enabling real-time alerting via Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie
- Analysing false positives and tuning detection sensitivity
- Archiving security events for forensic investigations
Module 7: Policy as Code and Automated Governance - Designing a centralised policy repository for all teams
- Writing reusable Rego policies for OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing pod security standards using PSP replacements
- Validating pod security compliance using kubestat
- Creating policies to block high-risk configurations
- Implementing automated rollback of non-compliant deployments
- Integrating Kyverno with GitHub Actions for pull request checks
- Generating policy violation reports for audit teams
- Managing policy lifecycle with version control and testing
- Enabling audit-only mode for policy transition periods
- Using constraint templates for multi-cluster consistency
- Monitoring policy enforcement coverage across environments
- Creating exceptions workflows with approval tracking
- Integrating policy violations into Jira or ServiceNow
- Reporting policy metrics to executive dashboards
- Setting up policy drift alerts and reconciliation jobs
Module 8: Securing CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Workflows - Analysing risks in CI/CD agents running in Kubernetes
- Hardening Jenkins, Argo CD, and Flux agents with least privilege
- Isolating pipeline workloads using dedicated namespaces
- Securing pipeline secrets using external secret managers
- Validating GitOps pull model vs push model security trade-offs
- Signing Git commits and manifests using GPG
- Enforcing code review and approval gates for production changes
- Implementing automated rollback triggers on security failures
- Integrating static analysis tools into pull request workflows
- Scanning Helm charts for insecure configurations
- Validating infrastructure-as-code templates with tfsec and checkov
- Protecting Argo CD with SSO and MFA integration
- Auditing deployment history and rollback capabilities
- Limiting pipeline agent permissions to required scopes
- Enabling end-to-end traceability from commit to deployment
- Creating pipeline security health dashboards
- Automating drift detection in GitOps-synced clusters
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Designing a centralised policy repository for all teams
- Writing reusable Rego policies for OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing pod security standards using PSP replacements
- Validating pod security compliance using kubestat
- Creating policies to block high-risk configurations
- Implementing automated rollback of non-compliant deployments
- Integrating Kyverno with GitHub Actions for pull request checks
- Generating policy violation reports for audit teams
- Managing policy lifecycle with version control and testing
- Enabling audit-only mode for policy transition periods
- Using constraint templates for multi-cluster consistency
- Monitoring policy enforcement coverage across environments
- Creating exceptions workflows with approval tracking
- Integrating policy violations into Jira or ServiceNow
- Reporting policy metrics to executive dashboards
- Setting up policy drift alerts and reconciliation jobs
Module 8: Securing CI/CD Pipelines and GitOps Workflows - Analysing risks in CI/CD agents running in Kubernetes
- Hardening Jenkins, Argo CD, and Flux agents with least privilege
- Isolating pipeline workloads using dedicated namespaces
- Securing pipeline secrets using external secret managers
- Validating GitOps pull model vs push model security trade-offs
- Signing Git commits and manifests using GPG
- Enforcing code review and approval gates for production changes
- Implementing automated rollback triggers on security failures
- Integrating static analysis tools into pull request workflows
- Scanning Helm charts for insecure configurations
- Validating infrastructure-as-code templates with tfsec and checkov
- Protecting Argo CD with SSO and MFA integration
- Auditing deployment history and rollback capabilities
- Limiting pipeline agent permissions to required scopes
- Enabling end-to-end traceability from commit to deployment
- Creating pipeline security health dashboards
- Automating drift detection in GitOps-synced clusters
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Configuring Kubernetes audit logs at RequestResponse level
- Forwarding logs to centralised platforms like ELK and Splunk
- Filtering and indexing audit events for fast querying
- Creating alert rules for high-risk API calls
- Monitoring for repeated authentication failures
- Analysing log storage costs and retention policies
- Enabling immutable log storage for compliance integrity
- Building SIEM correlation rules for attack patterns
- Creating executive-level security summary reports
- Automating log archival for long-term retention
- Validating log integrity using cryptographic hashing
- Setting up role-based access to log data
- Correlating events across clusters, clouds, and tools
- Implementing log redaction for PII and secrets
- Using Grafana dashboards to visualise security events
- Generating compliance-ready audit packages on demand
Module 10: Advanced Threat Mitigation and Zero Trust Architecture - Designing zero trust policies for internal service communication
- Implementing service identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Enforcing least privilege at every layer of the stack
- Using short-lived certificates for mutual authentication
- Integrating identity-based firewall rules
- Preventing spoofing with verifiable service identities
- Hardening east-west traffic with application-layer controls
- Creating micro-segmentation policies for critical workloads
- Evaluating service mesh security capabilities in Istio, Linkerd
- Protecting control plane gRPC traffic with mTLS
- Monitoring for credential leakage in logs and traces
- Enforcing device posture checks for admin access
- Integrating endpoint detection and response (EDR) with cluster access
- Implementing tempo-spatial access controls
- Simulating breach scenarios using chaos engineering
Module 11: Compliance, Auditing, and Regulatory Alignment - Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Mapping Kubernetes controls to NIST SP 800-190
- Aligning with CIS Kubernetes Benchmark requirements
- Meeting PCI DSS requirements for container isolation
- Supporting HIPAA compliance through access and audit controls
- Addressing GDPR obligations for data processing in pods
- Preparing for SOC 2 Type II audits with evidence collection
- Documenting security controls for third-party assessors
- Creating runbooks for auditor access and data requests
- Generating compliance scorecards using automation
- Integrating with GRC platforms for centralised reporting
- Validating data residency and egress controls
- Designing evidentiary workflows for incident investigations
- Establishing quarterly control review cycles
- Creating compliance dashboards for executive oversight
- Archiving audit trails with legal hold capabilities
Module 12: Incident Response, Recovery, and Forensics - Building a Kubernetes-specific incident response playbook
- Defining breach classification levels and escalation paths
- Isolating compromised nodes without cluster disruption
- Performing memory and disk captures from container hosts
- Analysing container filesystems for malicious payloads
- Reconstructing attack timelines using audit logs
- Identifying initial access vectors and lateral movement
- Preserving evidence in legally defensible formats
- Coordinating response across DevOps, SecOps, and legal teams
- Executing automated containment workflows
- Restoring workloads from trusted image sources
- Communicating breaches to stakeholders with technical clarity
- Conducting post-mortems with actionable remediation plans
- Updating policies and detection rules based on findings
- Testing response readiness with tabletop exercises
Module 13: Certification Project and Real-World Implementation - Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Conducting a full cluster security assessment using course checklists
- Identifying top five critical vulnerabilities in your environment
- Designing a remediation roadmap with priority scoring
- Applying policy-as-code to enforce new security baselines
- Validating fixes through automated testing and scanning
- Documenting changes for internal audit and leadership review
- Presenting your findings and mitigation strategy in a board-ready format
- Receiving feedback from subject-matter experts
- Submitting your final project for certification eligibility
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service