From the course: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Cert Prep

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CIS benchmarks for Kubernetes

CIS benchmarks for Kubernetes

- The Center for Internet Security is a group that is a nonprofit organization that publishes all kinds of community sourced good practices for deploying applications and infrastructures in a very secure manner. And it has become a benchmark, if you will, for how organizations will deploy applications, and they will test against it. Now, the main offerings that CIS has are their benchmark series, which can be used to completely assess the security posture, and provide remediation opportunities for particular vulnerabilities that might be in place. They have a number of different offerings available. So you've got major, you know, commercial Kubernetes solutions that are currently in place around Red Hat, OpenShift, as well as various cloud providers. And then you can always go to the CIS security.org website to be able to take a look at what benchmarks are there, but know that this isn't just for Kubernetes. They have it across all operating systems, as well as various infrastructure…

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