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Enhancing Security of Microservices on Kubernetes

AWS
Cloud-Native
Information technology
Kubernetes

A provider of security systems turned to Altoros to assess the maturity of its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployment.

Enhancing Security of Microservices on Kubernetes

About the project

Brief results of the collaboration:

  • With a six-hour session and subsequent report, Altoros evaluated the customer’s platform against 25 maturity model components and provided an assessment and a roadmap for improvements.
  • By integrating recommendations including container image scanning and running kube-bench, overall security will improve.
  • Several high-priority issues were identified and remediation plans for each were defined, providing the company with industry standards for deployment and a streamlined rollout strategy.
  • By employing recommendations around monitoring, the company gained enhanced visibility and now can observe resource usage and application call paths, which help to expose performance issues.
  • With the recommendations for building a continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, the customer is able to increase feature delivery velocity.

The customer

Headquartered in Irvine (CA), the company is a provider of authentication and security services. The customer's portfolio includes multi-factor, passwordless, adaptive, and single sign-on authentication systems, as well as solutions for user life cycle management. The organization serves industry giants from healthcare, finance, retail, public sector, etc. The company is also recognized and widely acclaimed by independent advisors and analysts, such as Gartner and KuppingerCole.

The challenges

Authentication, authorization, and life cycle management systems deal with sensitive data. So, the assessment had to target all the potential vulnerabilities that expose customer’s services to security attacks.

The outcome

Thanks to the maturity assessment by Altoros, the customer timely identified potential issues around its Kubernetes deployment and created a roadmap for prioritized improvements. With the delivered recommendations, the company can exploit Amazon EKS tooling to the maximum, ensuring enterprise-grade security, scalability, and high availability.

Through the experience shared around building CI/CD pipelines, the organization can now speed up feature delivery. Following the advice to merge operators and developers into a single team, the company is on the way to establish a proper DevOps culture.

The customer now has a clear path forward and can rely on Altoros for implementation and support.

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Alex Tsimashenka

Alex Tsimashenka

Business Development Director

a.tsimashenka@altoros.com +1 (650) 419-3379