• The CI/CD Security Pipeline: Shifting security "left" by integrating automated validation controls directly into continuous integration and delivery pipelines, including Jenkins and GitLab runners.
• Application Security Testing in Pipelines: Automating software security analysis inside active builds: checking source code for flaws (SAST), testing compiled, running apps for flaws (DAST), and identifying known vulnerable open-source libraries (SCA).
• Container Architecture & Isolation (Namespaces, cgroups): Analyzing container engines (such as Docker), separating processes via Linux namespaces, limiting resource allocations via cgroups, and auditing the core daemon.
• Container Security & Escape Mitigation: Protecting microservices by scanning image layers for vulnerabilities, executing containers under non-root contexts, and preventing host system access escapes.
• Kubernetes Cluster Security (RBAC, Network Policies): Hardening container orchestration systems (Kubernetes), configuring cluster Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), isolating pods, and declaring logical ingress/egress Network Policies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security: Performing static scanning on declarative configuration files (such as Terraform and CloudFormation templates) to identify security misconfigurations prior to deployment.