Runtime Security
Runtime security is the practice of monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats and anomalous behavior in applications and infrastructure while they are actively running — as opposed to static security checks performed before deployment — covering containers, hosts, and cloud workloads in production.
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Glossary Terms(6)
Open Policy Agent
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open-source, general-purpose policy engine that lets organizations define and enforce fine-grained authorization and compliance r…
Container Registry
A container registry is a storage and distribution system for container images, letting teams push built images, version and tag them, and pull them for deploy…
Image Scanning
Image scanning is the automated process of analyzing a container image's layers, installed packages, and dependencies to detect known security vulnerabilities…
Runtime Security
Runtime security is the practice of monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats and anomalous behavior in applications and infrastructure while they are a…
Observability Pipeline
An observability pipeline is the infrastructure that collects, processes, routes, and stores telemetry data — logs, metrics, and traces — from applications and…
SLO
An SLO (Service Level Objective) is a specific, measurable target for a service's reliability — such as '99.9% of requests succeed within 300ms over a rolling…
Interview Questions(3)
What is Container Runtime Security?
Container runtime security is the practice of monitoring and constraining what a container is actually doing while it runs — its syscalls, process behavior, fi…
How Does Falco Detect Threats at Runtime?
Falco is an open-source, CNCF-graduated runtime security tool that taps into kernel syscall events using eBPF (or a kernel module driver) and evaluates them in…
What are Seccomp Profiles in Container Security?
A seccomp (secure computing mode) profile is a Linux kernel feature that restricts which system calls a process is allowed to make, and in container security i…