Today, NCCGroup has released a 122 page whitepaper detailing the various security features of the major container runtimes.
While I haven’t had a chance to fully read the whitepaper, I am glad that container security is becoming a large enough concern to warrant such publishings.
I have been looking into the security capabilities of SDN for the past year or so but quickly realized that most open source controller’s North Bound API was either non-existent or too immature to provide the support required for powerful security applications. Luckily the good people over at OpenFlowSec have recently released their SDN Security Suite which is an extension/improvement over their FortNOX controller. This suite includes a security enhanced floodlight controller (Big Switch’s Open Source controller), an actuator which provides a security directive abstraction on top of the floodlight switch, and an openflow bothunter extension.
In case you wanted to try out the OF Actuator I have put together a small Python wrapper in which you can find here.
For those who do not know, KGNoise is a library that allows you to programmatically add a rough textured look to your applications for both the Mac and iOS. The library has quite a few different options that allow you to customize the appearance of the noise texture so I created a quick color picker project to help developers tweak the options to a color that they want.
