Dynatrace, which provides unified observability and security, is upgrading its platform with new Kubernetes security posture management capabilities for observability-driven security, configuration and compliance monitoring. This announcement follows the rapid integration of Runecast technology into the Dynatrace platform, following the company’s successful acquisition earlier this year.
The new KSPM offering builds on Dynatrace’s existing security protection capabilities, including runtime vulnerability analytics (RVA) and runtime application protection (RAP), for strengthening cloud-native application protection. The combined capabilities provide DevSecOps, security, platform engineering and SRE teams responsible for ensuring the security of Kubernetes environments, with an innovative solution for security posture and compliance.
Dynatrace’s new KSPM solution, combined with the platform’s existing RVA and RAP capabilities, allows teams to instantly detect risk in Kubernetes deployments and automatically prioritize remediation based on risk exposure. To achieve this at scale, Dynatrace uses Davis hypermodal AI, which combines predictive and causal AI techniques for precise answers, automation and GenAI. As a result, teams can gain comprehensive insight into cloud-native applications across code, libraries, language runtime and container infrastructure. This helps them to strengthen security posture within Kubernetes deployments while also complying with regulatory frameworks and industry best practices.
“While most teams rely on agentless workload scanning to enable KSPM, this snapshot approach is incapable of providing real-time insights and often causes a frequency of excessive alerts, without runtime context, that waste time and make remediation efforts more confusing,” said Bernd Greifeneder, CTO, Dynatrace. “As the attack surface of cloud applications continues to increase and attackers are targeting the misconfiguration of cloud infrastructure, APIs and the software supply chain itself, organizations must evolve their solutions and processes to ensure their cloud technologies, including Kubernetes, are constantly protected against the latest risks and empower teams to operate with best practices. Building on the Dynatrace platform’s existing RVA and RAP capabilities, Dynatrace is delivering an innovative approach to KSPM that we believe sets us apart, providing teams with real-time insights, automated compliance, and actionable advice that free up resources and reduce exposure risk.”
Dynatrace Kubernetes Security Posture Management is expected to be generally available in the second half of 2024.
Dynatrace is in attendance at RSA Conference 2024, at booth #5157. For the company’s partner program, visit https://www.dynatrace.com/partners/.
