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Kubescape

Kubernetes security platform spanning IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and live clusters

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License

Apache-2.0

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  • Go
  • Python
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About Kubescape

Kubescape is a Kubernetes security platform that finds security, compliance, and misconfiguration issues across the whole lifecycle, from the IDE through CI/CD to running clusters. It covers workload posture, control-plane exposure, access-control risk, and runtime security.

It scans against built-in frameworks such as NSA, MITRE ATT&CK, and CIS, or against specific controls. Image vulnerability scanning uses Grype, with an offline database option, and it can patch container images for OS-level CVEs and flag gaps in network policy.

An in-cluster operator runs continuous misconfiguration and image scanning, eBPF-based runtime threat detection, network policy generation, and Prometheus metrics. It works as a standalone CLI or as the operator, and is a CNCF project under the Apache 2.0 license.

Key features

  • Scans posture, compliance, and misconfigurations
  • Framework scans for NSA, MITRE, and CIS controls
  • Grype-based image vulnerability scanning and patching
  • eBPF runtime threat detection via in-cluster operator
  • Network policy generation and Prometheus metrics

Details

First released
2021
Platforms
Linux · macOS · CLI · Docker
Self-hosting
In-cluster operator and CLI
Compliance
MITRE · NSA · CIS
Deployment
self-hostable
License
Apache 2.0