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Active, zero-trust based security for containers and Kubernetes

Welcome to the May 2023 edition of the Tigera newsletter! Here’s what we have in store for you this month...

Customer case study: Rafay

Rafay achieved turnkey Kubernetes security using Calico on AWS. Read our new case study to find out how.

Read case study.

New guide: CISO’s security guide to containers and Kubernetes

This guide provides CISOs and other security decision-makers with an overview of container security, insights into securing Kubernetes landscapes and container-based applications, and why securing these technologies requires a unique approach.

Read the guide.

Tigera Named Winner of the Esteemed Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2023

We’re excited to announce that we won the ‘Hot Company: Container Security’ category of the Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine! Check out the full press release for more details.

Read the press release.

OPEN SOURCE

Check out the latest Project Calico videos to learn more about open-source networking and security for containers and Kubernetes in the cloud. Watch here.

Project Calico news

Calico Wall of Fame – As a valued member of our Calico users community, we would like to feature you on our NEW Project Calico Wall of Fame. To participate, fill out the form here.

Flagsmith & Project Calico Interview – In this podcast, Ben Rometsch from Flasgsmith interviews Tigera’s Shaun Crampton about his experiences as a core developer on Project Calico. Listen here.

Calico 3.26.0 – In this blog post, Reza Ramezanpour covers what’s new in Calico’s latest release. Read here.

Community Spotlight Interview – Check out our latest interview with one of our Calico Big Cats, Saurabh Mishra. Read here.

Public Cloud Kubernetes London Meet-Up – Join us in person on June 8th at 6 PM BST (London time)! We’ll be talking about Using Open-Source Software to Secure Cloud-Native Applications. For more information, follow Project Calico on LinkedIn and Twitter.

OWASP Meet-Up Toronto – Join us at this hybrid event on June 15th at 6pm EST. If you are attending in person, you can find the venue details here. If you are joining virtually, join here.

SUSECON 2023 – We’ll be at SUSECON Munich on June 20–22! Check out our joint presentation with SUSE Rancher on Implementing holistic security for containers and Kubernetes with Calico and NeuVector. For more information, follow Project Calico on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Connect

The next monthly Project Calico community meeting will happen on June 14th at 9:00 am PT. Join the Zoom meeting.

Join Calico Big Cats, Calico’s ambassador program, if you are interested in being a part of our community events and helping us grow the Calico community. Find out more.

If you would like to contribute to the Calico Open Source community beyond GitHub, schedule a conversation to discuss event opportunities.

In the meantime, connect with us online:

RECENT RELEASES: CALICO ENTERPRISE & CALICO CLOUD

May 8, 2023 – Enterprise 3.15.3
April 11, 2023 – Cloud 24Q1-R2

IN THE NEWS

Check out this recent Tigera-related coverage.

Utpal Bhatt, Tigera | RSAC 2023 from SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Lessons From the Fortune 100 About Cloud-Native Application Security from Cybersecurity Insiders
SBOMs’ Role in Open Source Security from Security Boulevard
The top 20 zero-trust startups to watch in 2023 from VentureBeat
Cloud-Native Architectures And Applications Have Increased The Attack Surface from TFIR

➔ To see all coverage and to read Tigera’s press releases, visit our Newsroom.

LEARNING RESOURCES

Tutorials

Hands-on experience at your pace. Use our self-paced tutorials to learn how to address common security and observability challenges for containers and Kubernetes. See available tutorials here.

Help Center

Our Help Center is an important technical resource for users and customers of Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise. The Help Center contains technical articles to help you install, configure and manage your Calico solution. Access the Help Center here.

O’Reilly eBook

Kubernetes security and observability: A holistic approach to securing containers and cloud-native applications

Learn why you need a holistic security and observability strategy for containers and cloud-native applications, and new cloud-native approaches for establishing security and observability for applications running on Kubernetes. Get your free copy here.

Blogs

Tigera Named Winner of the Esteemed Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2023 – We’re incredibly excited to announce that Tigera has been named winner of the esteemed Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2023. Read now.

Calico’s 3.26.0 update unlocks high density vertical scaling in Kubernetes – Explore the benefits of horizontal scaling and how you can safely implement such a change for your cluster. Read now.

Using Calico Egress gateway and access controls to secure traffic – A security exposure can cause egress traffic to leave the cluster, but the Calico Egress Gateway can mitigate this issue. See how. Read now.

What you can’t do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico) – Learn how the Calico Egress Gateway works and how it covers and solves limitations of the native Kubernetes network policy API. Read now.

RSAC 2023 interview: Tigera talks cloud-native security on theCUBE – Utpal Bhatt talks cloud-native security with SiliconANGLE & theCUBE host John Furrier at RSAC 2023. Read now.

Community Spotlight series: Calico Open Source user insights from Saurabh Mishra – Read about the challenges Saurabh faced while using Kubernetes and why he chose Calico. Read now.

Monitoring Kubernetes clusters activity with Azure Managed Grafana and Calico – Proactive cluster activity monitoring will help you find usage patterns and gain insight into your Kubernetes environment's overall health and performance. Learn how to enable Calico metrics. Read now.

Overcoming Security Gaps with Active Vulnerability Management – Amit Gupta shares how organizations can reduce security risks in containerized applications by actively managing vulnerabilities in a number of ways. Read now.

Tigera named as one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers in 2023 – We’re proud to announce that Forbes has named us as one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023. Find out why our Tigers enjoy working at Tigera. Read now.

How to integrate Calico Image Scanner with Argo CI/CD – Keep your images safe and secure from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) by integrating the Calico Image Scanner into your CI/CD pipeline using Argo. Read now.

Detect malicious activity and protect your containerized workloads in Amazon EKS or AWS – Walk through a scenario of what happens when an attacker compromises a public-facing application and gains foothold in EKS, and how Calico on AWS and EKS can help. Read now.

➔ Explore all blogs

Guides

Kubernetes Network Security – Learn why Kubernetes network security is important and 6 ways to improve it. Read guide.

OpenShift Security – Read our new guide to learn about OpenShift security and discover 5 best practices to implement it. Read guide.

Kubernetes Network Policy – A Kubernetes network policy is a specification that defines how pods are allowed to communicate with each other and other network endpoints in a Kubernetes cluster. Read guide.

White papers

Networking, security and observability for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments – This paper details how you can use Calico to create a Kubernetes cluster mesh to enable high availability for distributed applications across multiple clusters. Read whitepaper.

Definitive guide to container security and observability – Get a holistic view of container security, and detailed information on: securing containers during the build stage, runtime protection, zero-trust workload access controls, microsegmentation, compliance, observability and troubleshooting. Download now.

7 security best practices for DevOps managing workloads in EKS – In this guide, we share the seven security best practices DevOps teams can use to manage containerized workloads in EKS. Download now.

➔ Explore all white papers

Certifications

Certified Calico Operator: Azure Expert

Gain experience using the Calico–Azure integration through hands-on labs. By the end of this course, you will know more about Azure cloud, as well as managed, self-managed, and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure.

Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: Level 1 – Understand how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your cluster following today’s best practices. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert – Understand several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS, examine how the default AWS networking works, and learn how to configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to secure your AWS Kubernetes cluster. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: eBPF course – By the end of this course, you’ll be able to run and modify simple eBPF programs, understand the deployment options and methods available with Calico’s eBPF data plane, and be able to confidently deploy eBPF across multiple environment types. Enroll here.

➔ Explore all certification courses

PARTNERS

New Partners

We are pleased to welcome new partners, NCT (Brazil) and SuperOrbital (US) to the Tigera partner program!

➔ See all Tigera partners

We hope you found valuable resources and information in this month’s newsletter, and we welcome your feedback. Please let us know how we can make our monthly newsletter a useful source of information that you look forward to each month. Send us your suggestions.

Have a great month!
–Tigera Team

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Tigera Newsletter – May 2023