Cloud Native Security: How to Protect Your Kubernetes Infrastructure

This Fairwinds blog post summarizes cloud-native security principles and provides actionable best practices for protecting Kubernetes infrastructure, covering topics such as control plane protection, least-privilege access and RBAC, secure container images and scanning, network segmentation, audit logging, patch management, policy-as-code and enforcement, secrets management, and pod security standards; it also highlights emerging risks from AI/ML workloads and edge deployments and recommends tools like Trivy, Kyverno, Open Policy Agent, Falco, and Vault to help maintain security and compliance.