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  • It provides a safety net by pooling the resources of the community to support the less fortunate. This prevents people from having to sacrifice their long term goals because their short term needs may not be otherwise met.

    Also in contrast to capitalism that treats society as a zero sum game (“I can’t get ahead unless I take something from someone else”) socialism is a benefit multiplier (“I’m part of the community. By making the life of everyone in the community better I’m also improving my own life”).













  • boblin@infosec.pubtoHacker News@derp.fooThe Curse of Docker
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    10 months ago

    Using containers from public registries is no worse than using third party software. In both cases there’s a risk of malicious code. The big difference is that for containers you can scan the image before running it, SBOMs are becoming ubiquitous so dependency vulnerabilities are easier to detect, and runtime protection software is more effective on containers because each container has a deterministic expected behaviour, making it easier to find deviations. I’d much rather manage runtime controls for containers than craft selinux policies.

    The bottom line (which the OP article misses) is that while individual container configurations require more effort to set up the additional work to manage them at scale is low, whereas compliance for host based installs is requiring more and more effort. In fact given how popular curl | sh ... is becoming for host based installs I’d argue that they are regressing in terms of safety and reproducibility.





  • The CIS benchmarks for Linux are a good start. There are some off the shelf tools that let you run those, notably linux-bench. Another tool in a similar fashion is lynis. You can also use eBPF tools like callander to examine your workload behaviour and help tighten your seccomp policies.

    Once you’ve established a baseline for your system, you’ll next want to harden your environment. This means network scans, OWASP, etc. As far as off the shelf tools go, OpenVAS is quite popular even in Enterprise environments.

    Finally there’s the continuous security tasks. Continuous package updates, runtime security, log analysis, etc. There are some free tools that cover part of this like Security Onion, but if the price is right a SaaS tool can save you a lot of time.