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2 posts tagged with "Cloud Native & DevSecOps"

Container & Kubernetes security, Infrastructure as Code SAST, Secrets management, and CI/CD.

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Zero Trust Microservices: Implementing SPIFFE/SPIRE & mTLS for Kubernetes Services

· 3 min read
Animesh Shaw
Founder & Lead Security Architect, AppSec Atlas
AppSec Atlas Research Team
Core Security Research & Contributor Group

In modern cloud-native Kubernetes environments, relying on perimeter firewalls, network security groups, or hardcoded API keys for microservice-to-microservice authentication is no longer sufficient. If an attacker compromises a single pod inside a VPC, unauthenticated internal networks allow lateral movement across the entire cluster.

Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 800-207) dictates a fundamental shift: Never Trust, Always Verify. In this article, we explore how to establish cryptographic workload identity using SPIFFE/SPIRE and enforce Mutual TLS (mTLS) via Envoy sidecar proxies.

Announcing AppSec Atlas: The Open-Source Security Knowledge Engine

· 3 min read
Animesh Shaw
Founder & Lead Security Architect, AppSec Atlas

Today, we are thrilled to officially launch AppSec Atlas — a comprehensive, open-source security knowledge engine spanning 45 masterclass guides and over 300 technical chapters across 9 security domains.

Whether you are an Application Security Engineer, Cloud Architect, AI Researcher, or Software Developer, AppSec Atlas is built to map the entire modern software security landscape—with zero fluff, pure engineering, and runnable code.