Kravernetes

Kravernetes - Full Contact Kubernetes

Krav means contact in Hebrew. Full contact k8s is an approach to k8s that focuses on practical real-world skills via the application of self-defense principles.

Kravernetes Tenents

1. Be aggressive but smart in your problem solving.
2. Be vigilant in identifing and addressing challenges.
3. Be proactive based on your current weaknesses or vulnerabilities; react quickly when you have to.
4. Be tool agnostic.
5. Invoke precision when executing tasks.
6. Employ simple and repeatable techniques.
7. Include situational awareness in all aspects of your practice.
8. Understand the impact of stress on your planning and response.

History of Krav Maga

Krav Maga is a military self-defence and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, and Karate. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency. It was derived from the street-fighting experience of Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler, while defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, during the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, after his aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF.

Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing aggression, and simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers.

Some of the key focus is instinctive response under stress. To that end, Krav Maga is an eclectic system that has not sought to replace existing effective techniques, taking what is useful from available systems, for example:

* Strikes – as per karate, and boxing,
* Take-downs and throws – per judo, aikido and wrestling
* Ground work – per judo and wrestling
* Escapes from chokes and holds – per judo, aikido, wrestling
* Empty-hand weapon defenses – per aikido

DevSecOps is an eccelctic system as well.

Retzev - "Continuous Motion"

Retzev is a concept that urges the Krav Maga practitioner to utilize and harness the natural power in movement throughout both defensive and offensive initiatives within a self-defense technique(s).

DevSecOps

The purpose of DevSecOps is to integrate security controls and processes into the DevOps software development cycle, a process which is achieved by promoting the collaboration between security teams, development teams and operations teams.

Kraverenetes is a practical DevSecOps methodology which focuses on the four pillars of Krav Maga, which are:

1. awareness
2. avoidance
3. de-escalation and escape
4. last-resort decisive, simultaneous attack and defense

Situational Awareness = Mindfullness

Situation awareness has been recognized as a critical, yet often elusive, foundation for successful decision-making across a broad range of situations, many of which involve the protection of human life and property, including law enforcement, aviation, air traffic control, ship navigation, health care, emergency response, military command and control operations, self defense, and offshore oil and nuclear power plant management. Lacking or inadequate situation awareness has been identified as one of the primary factors in accidents attributed to human error.

-6 unaware
-5 semi-aware
-3 aware
-2 cautioius 
-1 alert
0 prepared

THREATs

1. Technical Threats
2. Health Threats 
3. Raids/Robberty Threats
4. Environmental Threats
5. Terrorism Threats

Avoidance - "Practice, Practice, Practice"

“Kubernetes only provides the API, Orchestration and Scheduling and resource management. To get a complete application platform you also need a Linux Operating System; a container registry; container networking; container storage, logging, monitoring and method to integrate CI/CD pipelines.”

De-escalation - So how can we strengthen Kubernetes security?

1. By reducing the Kubernetes attack surface:
     Check for vulnerabilities periodically
     Review audit logs
     Review network policies and pod security policies
     Review Kubernetes secrets
3. By utilizing inbuilt Kubernetes platform security features:
     Authenticiation and Authorization
     Audit Logging
     Network Logging
     Pod Security
     Secrets Management
5. By using open source tools for Kubernetes security:
     TUF
     Clair
     Kube-bench
     Kubesec
     Kubeaudit

DEARMAN

* Describe - Use clear and concrete terms to describe what you want.
* Express - Let others know how a situation makes you feel by clearly expressing your feelings.
* Assert - Don't beat around the bush - say what you need to say.
* Reinforce - Reward people who respond well, and reinforce why your desired outcome is positive. 
* Mindful - Don't forget the ojbective and interaction it can be easy to get sidetracked into harmful arguements and lose focus.
* Appear - Appear confident. Consider your posture, tone, eye contact and body language.
* Negotiate - No one can have everything they want out of an interaction all the time. Be open to negotiation.

Attack and Defense - Kravernetes Tenents

1. Be aggressive but smart in your problem solving.
2. Be vigilant in identifing and addressing challenges.
3. Be proactive based on your current weaknesses or vulnerabilities; react quickly when you have to.
4. Be tool agnostic.
5. Invoke precision when executing tasks.
6. Employ simple and repeatable techniques.
7. Include situational awareness in all aspects of your practice.
8. Understand the impact of stress on your planning and response.

Thomas A. McGonagle