Kubernetes Security Review
Kubernetes is powerful and easy to misconfigure into a breach. We review your clusters against security best practice — RBAC, network policies, pod security, secrets — so your orchestration platform isn't your soft underbelly.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Cluster configuration and hardening review (CIS Kubernetes)
- RBAC and service-account permission analysis
- Network-policy and segmentation assessment
- Pod security, admission control and workload isolation
- Secrets management and encryption review
- Supply-chain and control-plane security
What you receive
- Kubernetes security review report
- RBAC and configuration findings
- Prioritised hardening recommendations
- Policy examples for enforcement
- Executive summary
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Only clusters you own or manage
- Assessment via authorised access
- Implementation by your team
- Managed-service internals assessed within provider limits
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- What are the biggest Kubernetes risks?
- Over-permissive RBAC, missing network policies (so any pod can talk to any pod), containers running privileged, and secrets stored insecurely. We check all of these against CIS benchmarks.
- Do you cover managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)?
- Yes. We assess your configuration and workloads on managed platforms, including the cloud-specific controls, within the access the provider allows.
- What do you need from us?
- Read access to the cluster (a suitable audit role), manifests or Helm charts if available, and context on your workloads. We turn it into a prioritised hardening plan.
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