SIG Security: Empowerment Through Autonomy

The presentation discusses the importance of self-assessments in Kubernetes security and how it empowers autonomy. It also highlights the Cappy self-assessment and its positive outcome.

• Self-assessments are important in determining the security posture of a workflow in a project and identifying areas for improvement
• The Cappy self-assessment was successful and led to the creation of a sub-project in Kubernetes
• Self-assessments empower autonomy by allowing teams to take ownership of their security posture and make improvements
• Action items from the assessment should be captured and implemented to improve security
• North Star goals for sub-projects should be established to guide the self-assessment process

Cappy reached out to Six Security for help in conducting a self-assessment in Kubernetes. The positive outcome of the Cappy self-assessment led to the creation of a sub-project in Kubernetes. The presenter had the honor of merging the Cappy self-assessment PR.

SIG Security takes a community-building approach to improving Kubernetes security, both for the project itself and our end users. Join organizers Ala, Rey, Savitha, and Tabitha for an overview of how we make space for security collaboration to thrive. We'll share timely updates from our documentation, third-party audit, and tooling subprojects. Security self-assessments will be a special focus, with a deep-dive on this new service offered to Kubernetes by our newest subproject! The Self-Assessments subproject in SIG Security is here to make security introspection accessible to any and all SIGs and subprojects. We aim to give SIGs and subprojects a repeatable and rigorous way to think about their own security, making Kubernetes safer to use as more workloads find their way to it. You'll learn what's been going on, what’s next, and how you could join in, regardless of your experience from beginner to expert. We hope to see you there!