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You're investing in a transformation, not just a course. That's why every aspect of Mastering Kubernetes Security Automation for Enterprise Scalability is built to deliver clarity, minimize risk, and maximise your long-term return on investment. Immediate Online Access, Anytime, Anywhere
Enroll once and gain full access to the complete learning ecosystem. The course is entirely self-paced, allowing you to progress according to your schedule, workload, and professional commitments. With no fixed dates, deadlines, or time zone restrictions, you control when and how you learn. This is on-demand learning engineered for real-world professionals. Flexible Completion Timeline with Fast-Track Results
Most learners report achieving measurable progress in just 7 to 10 hours of focused learning. The full course can be completed in 25 to 35 hours depending on your background and depth of engagement. Whether you’re looking to implement immediate improvements or build a comprehensive mastery over weeks, the structure supports both speed and depth. Lifetime Access and Continuous Future Updates
This is not a limited-time resource. You receive lifetime access to all materials, including every future update at no additional cost. As Kubernetes security evolves, your knowledge base evolves with it. We maintain a rigorous update schedule to ensure every module reflects the latest industry standards, enterprise patterns, and automation frameworks. Available 24/7, Fully Mobile-Friendly
Access your course from any device, anywhere in the world. Whether you're reviewing architecture patterns on your morning commute or troubleshooting RBAC strategies from your tablet during a break, the platform is optimized for seamless performance across desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Expert-Led Support and Structured Guidance
You are not learning in isolation. Each module includes direct access to instructor-curated guidance, best-practice walkthroughs, and targeted support pathways. Our team of enterprise Kubernetes security architects provides structured feedback loops, annotated real-world scenarios, and personalized implementation templates to ensure you translate theory into practice with confidence. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon successful completion, you will receive a globally recognized Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, a trusted name in professional certification and enterprise upskilling. This credential is designed to demonstrate mastery of Kubernetes security automation at an enterprise level and is valued by IT leaders, cloud security teams, and DevOps managers worldwide. Transparent Pricing, No Hidden Fees
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After enrollment, you will receive an email confirmation of your participation. Your detailed access credentials and learning pathway instructions will be delivered separately once your course materials are fully prepared. This ensures a smooth, error-free onboarding process with everything configured for optimal learning. This Works Even If…
You’ve struggled with Kubernetes security in complex environments, felt overwhelmed by fragmented documentation, or doubted whether automation frameworks scale in large organizations. This course was built precisely for professionals like you-those who need more than theory, who demand battle-tested strategies and repeatable implementation blueprints. For DevSecOps engineers, this provides a systematic approach to securing CI/CD pipelines and enforcing policy as code. For platform architects, it delivers proven patterns for zero-trust mesh integration and secure multi-tenancy. For security leads, it enables auditable, automated compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes fleets. Our graduates include senior engineers from Fortune 500 firms, cloud security consultants at global systems integrators, and platform leads at high-growth startups. They’ve used this training to reduce incident response times by 60%, eliminate manual policy drift, and pass SOC2 and ISO 27001 audits with full Kubernetes compliance. - “After implementing the Pod Security Admission framework from Module 5, our team reduced critical vulnerabilities by 78% in under four weeks.” - Lead Platform Engineer, Financial Services Firm
- “The automated policy-as-code templates allowed us to standardize security across 12 clusters without increasing headcount.” - DevOps Manager, Healthcare SaaS Provider
- “I went from feeling reactive to proactive. Now I design security into the architecture from day one.” - Senior Cloud Security Analyst, Tech Consultancy
We eliminate the guesswork, the trial-and-error, and the fear of misconfigurations that lead to breaches. With step-by-step implementation guides, role-specific checklists, and enterprise-grade automation blueprints, you gain confidence with every module. This is not just another technical guide. It’s a career accelerator, grounded in real-world outcomes, trusted by professionals, and backed by a global certification authority.
EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Kubernetes Security in Enterprise Environments - Understanding the shared responsibility model in Kubernetes
- Core security pillars: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Threat landscape analysis for containerized workloads
- Common attack vectors in Kubernetes clusters
- Principle of least privilege and defense in depth
- Security domains within Kubernetes: Control plane, etcd, nodes
- Secure cluster bootstrapping practices
- Role of immutable infrastructure in security resilience
- Network segmentation strategies for microservices
- Security implications of container runtime choices
- Hardening Linux hosts for Kubernetes nodes
- Kernel-level security settings and sysctl configurations
- Secure API server configuration and exposure controls
- Authentication mechanisms: X.509 client certificates, OIDC
- Service account best practices and token management
- Securing etcd with encryption and access controls
- Kubelet security context and authentication
- Secure communication channels within the cluster
- Security baselines using CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
- Developing a security-first mindset in DevOps workflows
Module 2: Identity, Access, and Policy Governance Frameworks - RBAC architecture and role binding mechanics
- Designing granular, least-privilege role assignments
- Namespace isolation and multi-tenancy strategies
- ClusterRole vs Role: when to use each
- Service account permissions audit and cleanup
- Binding external identity providers to Kubernetes roles
- Implementing Just-In-Time access with PAM integration
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) overview and use cases
- Webhook token authentication and custom authorizers
- Centralized identity management with LDAP/AD integration
- Role aggregation for policy consistency
- Audit logging for access control events
- Detecting and mitigating overprivileged accounts
- Automated role reviews with policy-as-code tools
- Dynamic role provisioning using GitOps workflows
- Policy enforcement for service mesh sidecars
- Securing admission controllers with bind restrictions
- Role binding anti-patterns and remediation techniques
- Implementing temporary access escalation protocols
- Governance frameworks for policy lifecycle management
Module 3: Pod Security and Workload Isolation Strategies - Introduction to Pod Security Admission (PSA)
- Baseline, restricted, and privileged profiles explained
- Migrating from PodSecurityPolicy to PSA
- Namespace-level security labeling and enforcement
- SecurityContext settings for containers and pods
- Preventing privilege escalation with allowPrivilegeEscalation
- ReadOnlyRootFilesystem enforcement and data flow control
- Capabilities management: dropping and adding SYS_*
- Running containers as non-root users
- Seccomp profiles for system call filtering
- AppArmor integration and profile deployment
- SELinux context configuration for Kubernetes workloads
- gVisor and Kata Containers for stronger isolation
- Sidecar injection security in service meshes
- Init container security constraints
- HostPath and hostNetwork access risks and mitigation
- Runtime class security enforcement
- Managing ephemeral containers securely
- Workload identity metadata protection
- Secure container image provenance verification
Module 4: Network Security and Zero-Trust Communication - Kubernetes networking model and security implications
- NetworkPolicy API and enforcement mechanisms
- Default-deny policies for namespaces and workloads
- Egress filtering and external service access control
- Ingress controller security hardening
- Securing LoadBalancer and NodePort services
- Zero-trust service-to-service communication
- Service mesh integration: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
- mTLS configuration for pod-level encryption
- Traffic encryption between control plane components
- TLS certificate rotation strategies
- Network segmentation using CNI plugins
- Calico, Cilium, and Weave Net security features
- Egress gateway patterns for internet-bound traffic
- DNS security and service discovery protection
- Preventing DNS exfiltration attacks
- Logging and monitoring network policy violations
- Automated NetworkPolicy generation from traffic baselines
- Handling legacy applications with permissive policies
- Multi-cluster network security with global policies
Module 5: Secure Software Supply Chain and Image Management - Container image trust and provenance chain
- Signing and verifying images with Cosign
- SBOM generation and vulnerability mapping
- Integrating SLSA framework into CI/CD pipelines
- Supply chain security using Sigstore and Fulcio
- Image scanning at build, push, and pull stages
- Trivy, Grype, and Clair vulnerability scanning integration
- Immutable tags and digest-based deployments
- Private registry security: authentication and ACLs
- Harbor registry with vulnerability scanning and replication
- Image quarantine and automatic remediation workflows
- Policy enforcement with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing image signing requirements at admission
- Preventing unsigned or untrusted images from running
- Dependency tree analysis for indirect vulnerabilities
- Minimizing image attack surface with distroless and DistroBuild
- Container escape prevention through minimal images
- Base image security validation and update cadence
- Automated CVE patching workflows
- Secure build agent configurations in CI environments
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring container behavior for anomalies
- Implementing Falco for runtime threat detection
- Custom rule creation for specific attack patterns
- Integrating audit logs with SIEM platforms
- Real-time alerting and incident response integration
- File integrity monitoring within containers
- Process execution tracking and shell detection
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorized processes
- Network connection anomaly detection
- Privileged container execution alerts
- Log enrichment strategies for incident investigation
- Correlating Kubernetes events with runtime behavior
- Threat intelligence feeds integration
- Behavioral profiling of normal vs malicious activity
- Container breakout detection techniques
- Memory scraping and credential harvesting detection
- Automated containment actions on detection
- Integration with XDR and SOAR platforms
- Establishing security baselines for drift detection
- Reducing false positives with contextual rules
Module 7: Configuration Hardening and Compliance Automation - Principle of immutable and declarative configuration
- Kubernetes configuration drift detection
- Automated configuration correction workflows
- Policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Kyverno policy creation and lifecycle management
- Validating, mutating, and generating policies
- Cluster-wide policy enforcement strategies
- Blue-green policy rollouts with impact analysis
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS, NIST, GDPR
- Automated compliance reporting and evidence collection
- Mapping controls to regulatory requirements
- Continuous compliance monitoring dashboards
- Creating custom compliance policies for internal standards
- Integrating policy engine with GitOps workflows
- Pull-request level policy validation in CI
- Policy testing and simulation environments
- Handling policy exceptions with approval workflows
- Version-controlled policy repositories
- Rollback mechanisms for failed policy changes
- Audit trail generation for policy decisions
Module 8: Secrets Management and Data Protection - Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
Module 1: Foundations of Kubernetes Security in Enterprise Environments - Understanding the shared responsibility model in Kubernetes
- Core security pillars: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Threat landscape analysis for containerized workloads
- Common attack vectors in Kubernetes clusters
- Principle of least privilege and defense in depth
- Security domains within Kubernetes: Control plane, etcd, nodes
- Secure cluster bootstrapping practices
- Role of immutable infrastructure in security resilience
- Network segmentation strategies for microservices
- Security implications of container runtime choices
- Hardening Linux hosts for Kubernetes nodes
- Kernel-level security settings and sysctl configurations
- Secure API server configuration and exposure controls
- Authentication mechanisms: X.509 client certificates, OIDC
- Service account best practices and token management
- Securing etcd with encryption and access controls
- Kubelet security context and authentication
- Secure communication channels within the cluster
- Security baselines using CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
- Developing a security-first mindset in DevOps workflows
Module 2: Identity, Access, and Policy Governance Frameworks - RBAC architecture and role binding mechanics
- Designing granular, least-privilege role assignments
- Namespace isolation and multi-tenancy strategies
- ClusterRole vs Role: when to use each
- Service account permissions audit and cleanup
- Binding external identity providers to Kubernetes roles
- Implementing Just-In-Time access with PAM integration
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) overview and use cases
- Webhook token authentication and custom authorizers
- Centralized identity management with LDAP/AD integration
- Role aggregation for policy consistency
- Audit logging for access control events
- Detecting and mitigating overprivileged accounts
- Automated role reviews with policy-as-code tools
- Dynamic role provisioning using GitOps workflows
- Policy enforcement for service mesh sidecars
- Securing admission controllers with bind restrictions
- Role binding anti-patterns and remediation techniques
- Implementing temporary access escalation protocols
- Governance frameworks for policy lifecycle management
Module 3: Pod Security and Workload Isolation Strategies - Introduction to Pod Security Admission (PSA)
- Baseline, restricted, and privileged profiles explained
- Migrating from PodSecurityPolicy to PSA
- Namespace-level security labeling and enforcement
- SecurityContext settings for containers and pods
- Preventing privilege escalation with allowPrivilegeEscalation
- ReadOnlyRootFilesystem enforcement and data flow control
- Capabilities management: dropping and adding SYS_*
- Running containers as non-root users
- Seccomp profiles for system call filtering
- AppArmor integration and profile deployment
- SELinux context configuration for Kubernetes workloads
- gVisor and Kata Containers for stronger isolation
- Sidecar injection security in service meshes
- Init container security constraints
- HostPath and hostNetwork access risks and mitigation
- Runtime class security enforcement
- Managing ephemeral containers securely
- Workload identity metadata protection
- Secure container image provenance verification
Module 4: Network Security and Zero-Trust Communication - Kubernetes networking model and security implications
- NetworkPolicy API and enforcement mechanisms
- Default-deny policies for namespaces and workloads
- Egress filtering and external service access control
- Ingress controller security hardening
- Securing LoadBalancer and NodePort services
- Zero-trust service-to-service communication
- Service mesh integration: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
- mTLS configuration for pod-level encryption
- Traffic encryption between control plane components
- TLS certificate rotation strategies
- Network segmentation using CNI plugins
- Calico, Cilium, and Weave Net security features
- Egress gateway patterns for internet-bound traffic
- DNS security and service discovery protection
- Preventing DNS exfiltration attacks
- Logging and monitoring network policy violations
- Automated NetworkPolicy generation from traffic baselines
- Handling legacy applications with permissive policies
- Multi-cluster network security with global policies
Module 5: Secure Software Supply Chain and Image Management - Container image trust and provenance chain
- Signing and verifying images with Cosign
- SBOM generation and vulnerability mapping
- Integrating SLSA framework into CI/CD pipelines
- Supply chain security using Sigstore and Fulcio
- Image scanning at build, push, and pull stages
- Trivy, Grype, and Clair vulnerability scanning integration
- Immutable tags and digest-based deployments
- Private registry security: authentication and ACLs
- Harbor registry with vulnerability scanning and replication
- Image quarantine and automatic remediation workflows
- Policy enforcement with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing image signing requirements at admission
- Preventing unsigned or untrusted images from running
- Dependency tree analysis for indirect vulnerabilities
- Minimizing image attack surface with distroless and DistroBuild
- Container escape prevention through minimal images
- Base image security validation and update cadence
- Automated CVE patching workflows
- Secure build agent configurations in CI environments
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring container behavior for anomalies
- Implementing Falco for runtime threat detection
- Custom rule creation for specific attack patterns
- Integrating audit logs with SIEM platforms
- Real-time alerting and incident response integration
- File integrity monitoring within containers
- Process execution tracking and shell detection
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorized processes
- Network connection anomaly detection
- Privileged container execution alerts
- Log enrichment strategies for incident investigation
- Correlating Kubernetes events with runtime behavior
- Threat intelligence feeds integration
- Behavioral profiling of normal vs malicious activity
- Container breakout detection techniques
- Memory scraping and credential harvesting detection
- Automated containment actions on detection
- Integration with XDR and SOAR platforms
- Establishing security baselines for drift detection
- Reducing false positives with contextual rules
Module 7: Configuration Hardening and Compliance Automation - Principle of immutable and declarative configuration
- Kubernetes configuration drift detection
- Automated configuration correction workflows
- Policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Kyverno policy creation and lifecycle management
- Validating, mutating, and generating policies
- Cluster-wide policy enforcement strategies
- Blue-green policy rollouts with impact analysis
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS, NIST, GDPR
- Automated compliance reporting and evidence collection
- Mapping controls to regulatory requirements
- Continuous compliance monitoring dashboards
- Creating custom compliance policies for internal standards
- Integrating policy engine with GitOps workflows
- Pull-request level policy validation in CI
- Policy testing and simulation environments
- Handling policy exceptions with approval workflows
- Version-controlled policy repositories
- Rollback mechanisms for failed policy changes
- Audit trail generation for policy decisions
Module 8: Secrets Management and Data Protection - Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- RBAC architecture and role binding mechanics
- Designing granular, least-privilege role assignments
- Namespace isolation and multi-tenancy strategies
- ClusterRole vs Role: when to use each
- Service account permissions audit and cleanup
- Binding external identity providers to Kubernetes roles
- Implementing Just-In-Time access with PAM integration
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) overview and use cases
- Webhook token authentication and custom authorizers
- Centralized identity management with LDAP/AD integration
- Role aggregation for policy consistency
- Audit logging for access control events
- Detecting and mitigating overprivileged accounts
- Automated role reviews with policy-as-code tools
- Dynamic role provisioning using GitOps workflows
- Policy enforcement for service mesh sidecars
- Securing admission controllers with bind restrictions
- Role binding anti-patterns and remediation techniques
- Implementing temporary access escalation protocols
- Governance frameworks for policy lifecycle management
Module 3: Pod Security and Workload Isolation Strategies - Introduction to Pod Security Admission (PSA)
- Baseline, restricted, and privileged profiles explained
- Migrating from PodSecurityPolicy to PSA
- Namespace-level security labeling and enforcement
- SecurityContext settings for containers and pods
- Preventing privilege escalation with allowPrivilegeEscalation
- ReadOnlyRootFilesystem enforcement and data flow control
- Capabilities management: dropping and adding SYS_*
- Running containers as non-root users
- Seccomp profiles for system call filtering
- AppArmor integration and profile deployment
- SELinux context configuration for Kubernetes workloads
- gVisor and Kata Containers for stronger isolation
- Sidecar injection security in service meshes
- Init container security constraints
- HostPath and hostNetwork access risks and mitigation
- Runtime class security enforcement
- Managing ephemeral containers securely
- Workload identity metadata protection
- Secure container image provenance verification
Module 4: Network Security and Zero-Trust Communication - Kubernetes networking model and security implications
- NetworkPolicy API and enforcement mechanisms
- Default-deny policies for namespaces and workloads
- Egress filtering and external service access control
- Ingress controller security hardening
- Securing LoadBalancer and NodePort services
- Zero-trust service-to-service communication
- Service mesh integration: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
- mTLS configuration for pod-level encryption
- Traffic encryption between control plane components
- TLS certificate rotation strategies
- Network segmentation using CNI plugins
- Calico, Cilium, and Weave Net security features
- Egress gateway patterns for internet-bound traffic
- DNS security and service discovery protection
- Preventing DNS exfiltration attacks
- Logging and monitoring network policy violations
- Automated NetworkPolicy generation from traffic baselines
- Handling legacy applications with permissive policies
- Multi-cluster network security with global policies
Module 5: Secure Software Supply Chain and Image Management - Container image trust and provenance chain
- Signing and verifying images with Cosign
- SBOM generation and vulnerability mapping
- Integrating SLSA framework into CI/CD pipelines
- Supply chain security using Sigstore and Fulcio
- Image scanning at build, push, and pull stages
- Trivy, Grype, and Clair vulnerability scanning integration
- Immutable tags and digest-based deployments
- Private registry security: authentication and ACLs
- Harbor registry with vulnerability scanning and replication
- Image quarantine and automatic remediation workflows
- Policy enforcement with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing image signing requirements at admission
- Preventing unsigned or untrusted images from running
- Dependency tree analysis for indirect vulnerabilities
- Minimizing image attack surface with distroless and DistroBuild
- Container escape prevention through minimal images
- Base image security validation and update cadence
- Automated CVE patching workflows
- Secure build agent configurations in CI environments
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring container behavior for anomalies
- Implementing Falco for runtime threat detection
- Custom rule creation for specific attack patterns
- Integrating audit logs with SIEM platforms
- Real-time alerting and incident response integration
- File integrity monitoring within containers
- Process execution tracking and shell detection
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorized processes
- Network connection anomaly detection
- Privileged container execution alerts
- Log enrichment strategies for incident investigation
- Correlating Kubernetes events with runtime behavior
- Threat intelligence feeds integration
- Behavioral profiling of normal vs malicious activity
- Container breakout detection techniques
- Memory scraping and credential harvesting detection
- Automated containment actions on detection
- Integration with XDR and SOAR platforms
- Establishing security baselines for drift detection
- Reducing false positives with contextual rules
Module 7: Configuration Hardening and Compliance Automation - Principle of immutable and declarative configuration
- Kubernetes configuration drift detection
- Automated configuration correction workflows
- Policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Kyverno policy creation and lifecycle management
- Validating, mutating, and generating policies
- Cluster-wide policy enforcement strategies
- Blue-green policy rollouts with impact analysis
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS, NIST, GDPR
- Automated compliance reporting and evidence collection
- Mapping controls to regulatory requirements
- Continuous compliance monitoring dashboards
- Creating custom compliance policies for internal standards
- Integrating policy engine with GitOps workflows
- Pull-request level policy validation in CI
- Policy testing and simulation environments
- Handling policy exceptions with approval workflows
- Version-controlled policy repositories
- Rollback mechanisms for failed policy changes
- Audit trail generation for policy decisions
Module 8: Secrets Management and Data Protection - Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Kubernetes networking model and security implications
- NetworkPolicy API and enforcement mechanisms
- Default-deny policies for namespaces and workloads
- Egress filtering and external service access control
- Ingress controller security hardening
- Securing LoadBalancer and NodePort services
- Zero-trust service-to-service communication
- Service mesh integration: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
- mTLS configuration for pod-level encryption
- Traffic encryption between control plane components
- TLS certificate rotation strategies
- Network segmentation using CNI plugins
- Calico, Cilium, and Weave Net security features
- Egress gateway patterns for internet-bound traffic
- DNS security and service discovery protection
- Preventing DNS exfiltration attacks
- Logging and monitoring network policy violations
- Automated NetworkPolicy generation from traffic baselines
- Handling legacy applications with permissive policies
- Multi-cluster network security with global policies
Module 5: Secure Software Supply Chain and Image Management - Container image trust and provenance chain
- Signing and verifying images with Cosign
- SBOM generation and vulnerability mapping
- Integrating SLSA framework into CI/CD pipelines
- Supply chain security using Sigstore and Fulcio
- Image scanning at build, push, and pull stages
- Trivy, Grype, and Clair vulnerability scanning integration
- Immutable tags and digest-based deployments
- Private registry security: authentication and ACLs
- Harbor registry with vulnerability scanning and replication
- Image quarantine and automatic remediation workflows
- Policy enforcement with Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
- Enforcing image signing requirements at admission
- Preventing unsigned or untrusted images from running
- Dependency tree analysis for indirect vulnerabilities
- Minimizing image attack surface with distroless and DistroBuild
- Container escape prevention through minimal images
- Base image security validation and update cadence
- Automated CVE patching workflows
- Secure build agent configurations in CI environments
Module 6: Runtime Security and Threat Detection - Monitoring container behavior for anomalies
- Implementing Falco for runtime threat detection
- Custom rule creation for specific attack patterns
- Integrating audit logs with SIEM platforms
- Real-time alerting and incident response integration
- File integrity monitoring within containers
- Process execution tracking and shell detection
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorized processes
- Network connection anomaly detection
- Privileged container execution alerts
- Log enrichment strategies for incident investigation
- Correlating Kubernetes events with runtime behavior
- Threat intelligence feeds integration
- Behavioral profiling of normal vs malicious activity
- Container breakout detection techniques
- Memory scraping and credential harvesting detection
- Automated containment actions on detection
- Integration with XDR and SOAR platforms
- Establishing security baselines for drift detection
- Reducing false positives with contextual rules
Module 7: Configuration Hardening and Compliance Automation - Principle of immutable and declarative configuration
- Kubernetes configuration drift detection
- Automated configuration correction workflows
- Policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Kyverno policy creation and lifecycle management
- Validating, mutating, and generating policies
- Cluster-wide policy enforcement strategies
- Blue-green policy rollouts with impact analysis
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS, NIST, GDPR
- Automated compliance reporting and evidence collection
- Mapping controls to regulatory requirements
- Continuous compliance monitoring dashboards
- Creating custom compliance policies for internal standards
- Integrating policy engine with GitOps workflows
- Pull-request level policy validation in CI
- Policy testing and simulation environments
- Handling policy exceptions with approval workflows
- Version-controlled policy repositories
- Rollback mechanisms for failed policy changes
- Audit trail generation for policy decisions
Module 8: Secrets Management and Data Protection - Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Monitoring container behavior for anomalies
- Implementing Falco for runtime threat detection
- Custom rule creation for specific attack patterns
- Integrating audit logs with SIEM platforms
- Real-time alerting and incident response integration
- File integrity monitoring within containers
- Process execution tracking and shell detection
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorized processes
- Network connection anomaly detection
- Privileged container execution alerts
- Log enrichment strategies for incident investigation
- Correlating Kubernetes events with runtime behavior
- Threat intelligence feeds integration
- Behavioral profiling of normal vs malicious activity
- Container breakout detection techniques
- Memory scraping and credential harvesting detection
- Automated containment actions on detection
- Integration with XDR and SOAR platforms
- Establishing security baselines for drift detection
- Reducing false positives with contextual rules
Module 7: Configuration Hardening and Compliance Automation - Principle of immutable and declarative configuration
- Kubernetes configuration drift detection
- Automated configuration correction workflows
- Policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Kyverno policy creation and lifecycle management
- Validating, mutating, and generating policies
- Cluster-wide policy enforcement strategies
- Blue-green policy rollouts with impact analysis
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS, NIST, GDPR
- Automated compliance reporting and evidence collection
- Mapping controls to regulatory requirements
- Continuous compliance monitoring dashboards
- Creating custom compliance policies for internal standards
- Integrating policy engine with GitOps workflows
- Pull-request level policy validation in CI
- Policy testing and simulation environments
- Handling policy exceptions with approval workflows
- Version-controlled policy repositories
- Rollback mechanisms for failed policy changes
- Audit trail generation for policy decisions
Module 8: Secrets Management and Data Protection - Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Risks of plaintext secrets in manifests and source code
- Native Secrets API limitations and security concerns
- External secrets management with ExternalSecrets operator
- AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault integration
- HashiCorp Vault for dynamic and static secret delivery
- Vault Kubernetes authenticator setup and token renewal
- Sidecar injector patterns for automated secret mounting
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data in etcd
- Encryption configuration using KMS providers
- Key rotation strategies and automation
- Secrets lifecycle management and expiration
- Automated scanning for hardcoded secrets in codebases
- Pre-commit hooks for secrets detection in CI/CD
- Token request API and projected service account tokens
- Limited lifetime tokens for external access
- Database credential rotation with Kubernetes operators
- Environment variable injection security
- Managing TLS certificates with cert-manager
- ACME integration for automatic certificate issuance
- Securing secrets in multi-cluster environments
Module 9: GitOps and Automated Security Enforcement - GitOps principles and security benefits
- Flux CD and Argo CD architecture and security model
- Securing Git repositories with branch protection
- Code signing for Git commits and tags
- Pull request-based deployment workflows
- Automated policy validation in pull requests
- Drift detection and automatic reconciliation
- Immutable audit trail via Git history
- RBAC for GitOps tooling and deployment permissions
- Secure CI/CD pipeline integration with GitOps
- Deploy key management and access control
- Automated rollback on security policy violation
- Policy enforcement in staging and production environments
- Canary deployments with security gates
- Automated compliance checks before promotion
- Integration with vulnerability scanners in GitOps flow
- Secrets management within GitOps workflows
- Infrastructure as code security review automation
- Declarative security policy repositories
- Multi-environment policy synchronization
Module 10: Multi-Cluster, Hybrid, and Edge Security - Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Security challenges in federated cluster environments
- Centralized policy management across clusters
- Cluster API and security implications
- Cluster registration and identity federation
- Consistent RBAC and NetworkPolicy across fleets
- Hybrid cloud Kubernetes security patterns
- On-premises cluster hardening and air-gapped setups
- Edge Kubernetes security for IoT and remote sites
- K3s and KubeEdge security configuration
- Remote node attestation and trust validation
- OTA update security for edge workloads
- Bandwidth-constrained environment considerations
- Physical security of edge devices
- Data sovereignty and regional compliance
- Automated cluster compliance validation
- Cross-cluster service discovery security
- Global ingress and egress security gateways
- Centralized logging and monitoring from distributed clusters
- Incident response coordination across environments
- Policy template distribution and versioning
Module 11: Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery - Kubernetes-specific incident response planning
- Containment strategies for compromised workloads
- Isolating affected nodes and pods
- Forensic data collection from containers and nodes
- Preserving ephemeral container state for analysis
- Log retention and retention period policies
- Chain of custody for digital evidence
- Post-incident root cause analysis templates
- Lessons learned integration into policy updates
- Automated playbook execution with SOAR
- Backup and restore of etcd and cluster state
- Velero for secure, encrypted backups
- Disaster recovery site configuration
- Cluster rebuild automation from source of truth
- Validating backup integrity and recoverability
- Automated failover testing schedules
- Recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) setting
- Coordination with cloud provider security teams
- Legal and regulatory reporting obligations
- Communications protocol during security incidents
Module 12: Scaling Security Automation for Enterprise Maturity - Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Real-World Implementation Projects - Hands-on project: Securing a multi-team Kubernetes platform
- Designing zero-trust network policies for microservices
- Implementing automated policy enforcement in CI/CD
- Building a compliance dashboard with live controls
- Automating incident response playbooks
- Creating a secure GitOps pipeline with policy gates
- Deploying secrets management with Vault integration
- Hardening a production-grade cluster from the ground up
- Implementing runtime threat detection with Falco
- Configuring mTLS across service mesh workloads
- Conducting a full security audit using automated tools
- Generating SBOMs and enforcing supply chain policies
- Setting up backup and disaster recovery for control plane
- Creating custom reports for audit readiness
- Establishing security guardrails for developer self-service
- Reviewing findings with expert feedback templates
- Final assessment and knowledge validation
- Submission of completed implementation portfolio
- Preparation guide for security leadership presentations
- Receiving your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Assessing security automation maturity level
- Building a security champion network in engineering teams
- Self-service security guardrails for developers
- Automated security onboarding for new projects
- Security scorecards and dashboards for leadership
- Kubernetes security KPIs and metrics tracking
- Reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Integration with enterprise risk management systems
- Security training embedded in onboarding
- Automated policy suggestions based on workload patterns
- AI-assisted policy generation and anomaly detection
- Scaling automation without increasing headcount
- Cost-benefit analysis of security automation investments
- Executive reporting frameworks for security posture
- Continuous improvement through feedback loops
- Vendor risk assessment for third-party operators and tools
- Establishing a Kubernetes security center of excellence
- Preparing for external audits and certifications
- Integration with enterprise identity and access management
- Future-proofing with extensible automation frameworks