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Kubernetes NetworkPolicies provide pod-level network segmentation by defining ingress and egress rules that control traffic flow between pods, namespaces, and external endpoints. Combined with CNI plu

Scan container images, filesystems, and Kubernetes manifests for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed secrets, and license compliance issues using Aqua Security Trivy with SBOM generation and CI/CD integration.

Kubernetes penetration testing systematically evaluates cluster security by simulating attacker techniques against the API server, kubelet, etcd, pods, RBAC, network policies, and secrets. Using tools

Container escape is a critical attack technique where an adversary breaks out of container isolation to access the host system or other containers. Detection involves monitoring for escape indicators

Enforce Kubernetes admission policies using OPA Gatekeeper with ConstraintTemplates, Rego rules, and the Gatekeeper policy library.

Harden Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control by implementing least-privilege policies, auditing role bindings, eliminating cluster-admin sprawl, and integrating external identity providers.

Pod Security Standards (PSS) define three levels of security policies -- Privileged, Baseline, and Restricted -- enforced by the Pod Security Admission (PSA) controller built into Kubernetes 1.25+. PS

Perform security risk analysis on Kubernetes resource manifests using Kubesec to identify misconfigurations, privilege escalation risks, and deviations from security best practices.

Detect and prevent privilege escalation in Kubernetes pods by monitoring security contexts, capabilities, and syscall patterns with Falco and OPA policies.

Auditing Kubernetes cluster RBAC configurations to identify overly permissive roles, wildcard permissions, dangerous ClusterRoleBindings, service account abuse, and privilege escalation paths using kubectl, rbac-tool, KubiScan, and Kubeaudit.