Kubernetes has become the cornerstone of modern DevOps, empowering teams to quickly deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. However, many struggle to navigate Kubernetes’ complexity while operating across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Red Hat OpenShift builds on Kubernetes by providing a consistent, enterprise-grade platform that abstracts the intricacies of the underlying infrastructure. It’s trusted by customers across industries and around the globe.
The speed at which engineers can move using Red Hat OpenShift leaves little room for siloed security practices. With tight deadlines and constant pressure to deliver, security is often viewed as a separate concern — addressed only after primary development tasks are complete. However, because security is fundamental to the performance, reliability, and stability of applications in production, security best practices should be viewed as a key development task, just like coding and testing.
To extend the powerful capabilities of the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform into Red Hat OpenShift, CrowdStrike collaborated with Red Hat to develop the CrowdStrike Falcon plug-in: an extension to the Red Hat OpenShift web console that delivers security detections, identifies risky misconfigurations, and surfaces vulnerabilities directly to the developers and platform engineers managing virtual machines and containers.
CrowdStrike leverages Red Hat OpenShift’s extensible platform to provide additional insights and increased visibility for DevOps engineers who use Red Hat OpenShift to manage security.
Delivering CrowdStrike Data within Red Hat OpenShift
Consistent Security Insights across Containerized and Virtualized Workloads
Red Hat OpenShift offers powerful capabilities for teams to manage both containers and virtual machines in a unified environment with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift. With this, teams can standardize infrastructure deployment and maintain workloads using a common set of established enterprise tools, bringing alignment across DevOps and ITOps teams and consistency across hybrid cloud environments.
However, when it comes to security, organizations often deal with too many disparate security tools across their containerized and non-containerized workloads. This fragmented approach doesn’t always provide a cohesive view into overall risk posture, making it difficult to pinpoint which security issues to focus on first. Here, CrowdStrike can help.
The Falcon platform delivers real-time visibility into attack surfaces and active threats across endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data — all through a single, lightweight agent. This agent leverages detection logic powered by CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary OverWatch™, which provides 24/7 proactive threat hunting powered by AI, human expertise, and CrowdStrike’s industry-leading adversary intelligence, protecting against the most novel and evasive threats.
With comprehensive coverage and adversary-driven insights, teams can access a single, prioritized set of security issues to fix across their containers and virtual machines.
DevOps Engineers Gain Visibility into Relevant Security Insights
This plug-in serves as a vehicle for the Falcon platform to bridge the communication gap that can exist between DevOps and security teams, surfacing the right security information directly to the teams that maintain critical production workloads. With this, engineers and security analysts spend less time answering tickets and chat messages and more time collaborating on enterprise security.
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