Chapter 12: Auditing using Falco and EFK

Bad people do bad things.

Good people do bad things.

Accidents happen.

Each of the preceding statements has one thing in common: when any one of them occurs, you need to find out what happened.

Too often, auditing is considered only when we think of some form of attack. While we certainly require auditing to find "bad people", we also need to audit everyday standard system interactions.

Kubernetes includes logs for most of the important system events that you will need to audit, but it doesn't include everything. As we discussed in previous chapters, all API interactions will be logged by the system, which includes the majority of events you need to audit. However, there are tasks that users execute ...

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