Security Observability and Monitoring

A compromised container runs curl to an external C2 server. It reads /etc/shadow. Then it creates a new ClusterRoleBinding granting cluster-admin. Three events, three different detection layers. If you're only watching one, you're blind to the others.

Preventive controls like RBAC, Pod Security Standards, and network policies reduce your attack surface. But prevention alone isn't enough. You need to see what's happening right now and what already happened. Security observability bridges that gap: it tells you what occurred, when, who initiated it, and which resource was affected.