Security Observability with eBPF

Conclusion

We hope you’ve enjoyed this short journey into the world of security observability and eBPF. It is the technology we’ve always wanted when in the trenches of threat detection and security engineering due to the fully customizable, in-kernel detection and prevention capabilities. It’s an incredibly exciting time for eBPF as it’s gone from an emerging Linux kernel technology to the one of the hottest new tools in distributed computing and infrastructure technology.

As more companies are shifting to containers and cloud native infrastructure, securing Kubernetes environments has never been more critical. Security observability in cloud native environments is the only data you need to create a least-privilege configuration for your workloads, rapidly threat hunt across your entire environment, or detect a breach or compromise.

Containers are implemented as namespace, capabilities, and cgroups in the Linux kernel, and eBPF operates natively in the kernel, natively supporting container visibility. eBPF dynamically configures security observability and prevention policy enforcement for all workloads in a cluster without any restart or changes to your applications or infrastructure. eBPF gives security teams an unmatched level of visibility into their workloads via several hook points in the kernel, including process execution, network sockets, file access, and generic kprobes and uprobes. This security observability enables full visibility of the four golden signals of ...