A cloud runtime security company, ARMO, has announced the promotion of its Kubescape platform to an ‘incubating’ project status by the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). The promotion is validation of Kubescape’s growing adoption, maturity, and value to the cloud native security and DevOps community.
Kubescape entered the CNCF Sandbox in 2022, and was the first K8S security scanner to be accepted by the Foundation. It is an open source project that provides risk analysis, security compliance, threat & misconfiguration detection, and vulnerability scanning. It is used by thousands of organisations, including Intel, AWS, Bitnami, Cox, and Energi Danmark. The project has grown its user base and contributor community since its launch in late 2021, and currently has over 10,400 GitHub stars, plus contributions from developers worldwide.
“Achieving incubation status is a testament to the hard work of the maintainers and the incredible support from the Kubescape community,” said Shauli Rozen, CEO and co-founder of ARMO. “Kubescape’s promotion reflects its increasing adoption and the critical role it plays in securing cloud native environments across the globe.”
Ben Hirschberg, CTO and co-founder of ARMO said: “For the past three years, we’ve engaged with adopters across organisations of all sizes – from cybersecurity and telecommunications to financial services and e-commerce. The scale of adoption has validated our vision, particularly with Kubescape’s incorporation into AWS security training materials, Intel’s public endorsement, and its contribution to securing other open source projects through platforms like Bitnami. It’s remarkable to see how an informal conversation between friends over coffee has evolved into something that delivers substantial value to organisations worldwide.”
“Projects like Kubescape provide adopters with a robust series of security capabilities that go beyond vulnerability scanning, to include all aspects of security considerations in Kubernetes environments. Kubescape’s promotion to incubation shows not only the readiness and desire of adopters to take advantage of the solutions, like security framework testing and hardening, but also demonstrates growing maturity and cloud native’s continued commitment to feature-rich security tools and projects which address multiple security concerns adopters have today and in the future,” said Emily Fox, Portfolio Security Architect at Red Hat and TOC Sponsor.
“The Kubescape project’s incubation announcement and their commitment to simplifying security for adopters places them on a path to gain widespread traction with other adopters, accelerating contributor diversity and setting them up for success towards Graduation,” she said.
