Falco
Falco is a cloud-native security tool designed for Linux systems.
It employs custom rules on kernel events, which are enriched with container and Kubernetes metadata, to provide real-time alerts.
🌐 falco.org (falcosecurity/falco)
📝 falco.org/docs, sysdig.com/opensource/falco
Architecture
Getting started
Presentation
Releases
| Version | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|
| 0.15 | May 13th, 2019 | sysdig blog |
Web resources
Readings
- Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) with Sysdig Secure - October 27, 2021
- Sysdig - Runtime security - November 15, 2021
- Using Falco to monitor outbound traffic for Pods in Kubernetes by The Katz Experiments - April 16, 2021
- Sysdig - Audit logs - February 9, 2021
- CNCF Webinar w/ slides - Getting started with container runtime security using Falco - September 2, 2020
- Kubernetes Security monitoring at scale with Sysdig Falco, by Skyscanner Engineering - January 29, 2020
- How to detect Kubernetes vulnerability CVE-2019-11246 using Falco - July 9, 2019
Web recordings
- CNCF: Detecting Five Famous Exploits With Falco - September 21, 2023
- Sysdig: Falco 101 - What is Falco? - September 27, 2022
- CNCF: Falco Deep Dive - April 22, 2021
- CNCF: Detecting Security Policies Violation Using Falco - A Practical Introduction - December 4, 2020
- KubeCon 2020: Intro to Falco - Intrusion Detection for Containers - September 4, 2020
- Rancher: Detecting Anomalous Kubernetes Activity with Falco - April 21, 2020
- CNCF: Kubernetes Runtime Security with Falco and Sysdig - December 28, 2019