Security and Snyk, with Kamil Potrec

Mar 3, 2021

Kamil Potrec is a Senior Security Engineer at Snyk, working on security around Kubernetes and cloud platforms. He joins the show to discuss how to think about securing your infrastructure, the different arts (and colors) of offensive and defensive security, and what not to lose sleep over.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 23, with Andrew Philips and Lars Wander
• A pile of mail and a bike

News of the week

• Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 is GA
• Fairwinds Insights 3.0
• Envoy zero-day patched
  • Istio security bulletin
• Sysdig contributes Falco modules to the CNCF
• StorageOS raises $10m in Series B
• Platform9 raises $12.5m in Series D
• CNCF relaunches Kubernetes Community Day with KCD Africa and Bengaluru

Links from the interview

• Offensive unit in American Football
• Hand-egg
• Red and blue teams
• Unreal Tournament
• Capture the flag
• Kubernetes secrets
  • Design document
  • Encrypting secrets at the application layer
• Antivirus software
• Tracer-tee
• SolarWinds attack
• Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
• left-pad deleted from NPM
• Snyk Open Source
  • The open source parts
• Snyk vulnerability database
• MITRE CVE database
• Kubernetes security at Snyk
• Deploy only trusted containers to GKE
• Application threat modeling
• Kubernetes security best practices, including security context, AppArmor, gVisor etc
• CVE-2020-8554: man-in-the-middle attack using ExternalIP services
• CVE-2020-14386: packet socket vulnerability with user namespaces enabled
  • Earlier related work: CVE-2017-7308 and CVE-2016-8655
  • Project Zero writeup
• Rewrite it in Rust!
• Kamil Potrec on LinkedIn