Exception Management
Exceptions Management
Compliance and Security Policies are usually designed as an ideal-state goal, but in the real world, things do not always go as planned. Vulnerabilities can be discovered any day, and sometimes businesses have code-freezes or vendor software deployed that cannot be secured properly for weeks or months.
Enter Exceptions – We discovered that in medium-to-large enterprises, exceptions are a critical feature for being able to manage policy in the real world. Also, it is an not as simple as just setting them, you also need several key features for exceptions to provide value:
- An Expiration Date: Exceptions cannot last forever. They need to expire or be re-reviewed on a regular basis.
- An Approval Process: Teams need a way to Request and Approve/Deny a Request
- A Communication Platform: Regular reminder emails, notification emails, and a record of communications related to log the policy exception.
Easy Installation
M9sweeper is, by far, the easiest-to-install, lightest-touch Kubernetes compliance and security platform. It can be installed in a matter of minutes and uses as much disk space and memory as many mobile phone apps.
Image Scanning
Your Kubernetes Cluster is only as secure as the software that is running on it. If you are running out of date operating system packages, using old code libraries, or running software with too many privileges, then you are open to attack.
Exception Management
Compliance and Security Policies are usually designed as an ideal-state goal, but in the real world, things do not always go as planned. Vulnerabilities can be discovered any day, and sometimes businesses have code-freezes or vendor software deployed that cannot be secured properly for weeks or months.
Policy Management
Managing policies is not something that M9sweeper invented. A tool called Gatekeeper has become incredibly popular for managing policies. Gatekeeper is built on top of Open Policy Agent, a standard for describing policies with code.
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates