Security Controls and Frameworks

You can write perfect RBAC policies and still get breached. You can deploy the most locked-down Pod Security Standards and still find a cryptominer running in your cluster on Monday morning. The gap isn't policy. It's enforcement, detection, and verification.

Security controls are the mechanisms that turn policy intent into runtime reality. In cloud native environments, they span from admission-time gatekeeping to kernel-level syscall monitoring, and they only work when layered together. Frameworks give you a structured way to organize those controls, verify coverage, and prove compliance to auditors who don't speak Kubernetes.