CNCF Special Interest Group for Security (SIG-Security)

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Objective

SIG-Security facilitates collaboration to discover and produce resources that enable secure access, policy control, and safety for operators, administrators, developers, and end-users across the cloud native ecosystem.

Background

“Cloud Native” is open source cloud computing for applications — a complete trusted toolkit for modern architectures. There are multiple projects which address key parts of the problem of providing access controls and addressing safety concerns. Each of these adds value, yet for these technical solutions to be capable of working well together and manageable to operate they will need a minimal shared context of what defines a secure system architecture.

Vision

There is a future where operators, administrators and developers feel confident creating new cloud native applications. They use cloud technologies with clear understanding of risks and the ability to validate that their security policy decisions are reflected in deployed software.

We envision that there could exist an ecosystem of tools that can simplify the experience of cloud native operators, administrators and developers, including:

1. System security architecture that understands and accommodates the ever growing heterogeneity of systems and provides a framework to protect resources and data while servicing their users.
2. Common vocabulary and open source libraries that make it easy for developers to create and deploy apps that meet system security requirements.
3. Common libraries and protocols that enable people to reason about the security of the system, such as auditing and explainability features.

Governance

SIG-Security charter outlines the scope of our group activities, as part of our governance process which details how we work.

Communications

Anyone is welcome to join our open discussions of SIG-Security projects and share news related to the group's mission and charter. Much of the work of the group happens outside of SIG-Security meetings and we encourage project teams to share progress updates or post questions in these channels:

• Email list
• CNCF Slack #sig-security channel

Meeting times

Group meeting times are listed below:

• US: Weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00am GMT-7 (see your timezone here)
• APAC: Bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00pm GMT+11 (see your timezone here)

See the CNCF Calendar for calendar invites.

Meeting minutes and agenda

Zoom Details

Meeting Link: zoom.us/my/cncfsigsecurity (Passcode: 77777)

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Gatherings

Please let us know if you are going and if you are interested in attending (or helping to organize!) a gathering. Create a github issue for an event and add to list below:

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, EU - May 4 - 7, 2021 - [issue#454]

Past events

New members

If you are new to the group, check out our New Members Page and submit a PR to add yourself to the members list.

Related groups

• Kubernetes Policy Working Group
• Kubernetes SIG-Auth
• NIST Big Data WG

History

• SAFE WG - renamed to CNCF Security SIG
• (Proposed) CNCF Policy Working Group - Merged into SAFE WG

Members

SIG Chairs

• Emily Fox (@TheFoxAtWork), National Security Agency, U.S.A. [Chair - term: 9/28/2020 - 9/27/2022]
• Sarah Allen (@ultrasaurus), [Chair - term: 6/3/2019 - 6/3/2021]
• Jeyappragash JJ (@pragashj), Tetrate.io [Chair - term: 6/3/2019 - 6/3/2021]

Tech Leads

• Brandon Lum (@lumjjb), IBM
• Justin Cappos (@JustinCappos), New York University
• Ash Narkar (@ashutosh-narkar), Styra
• Andres Vega (@anvega, VMWare
• Aradhana Chetal (@achetal01, TIAA

SIG Chairs Emeritus

• Dan Shaw (@dshaw), PayPal [Chair - term: 6/3/2019 - 9/3/2020]

On-going projects

Policy team

Policy is an essential component of a secure system.

Bi-weekly meetings at 3:00pm PT focus on policy concerns and initiatives.

Co-leads

• Howard Huang (@hannibalhuang), Huawei [Kubernetes Policy WG co-chair]
• Erica von Buelow (@ericavonb), Red Hat [Kubernetes Policy WG]

Co-chair representative: @pragashj

Security assessments

Security assessments are a collaborative process for the benefit of cloud native projects and prospective users by creating a consistent overview of the project and its risk profile.

Facilitator: Justin Cappos (@JustinCappos), New York University

Co-chair representative: @ultrasaurus

SIG members

Membership governance can be viewed here. If you are new, check out the New Members Page.

JOIN OUR MEETINGS REGULARLY, THEN ADD YOURSELF VIA PULL REQUEST

Additional information

CNCF sig assessments

As part of the CNCF project proposal process, projects should create a new assessment issue with a self-assessment.

Past events and meetings

For more details on past events and meetings, please see our past events page