CONTAINER SECURITY RESEARCH Research report on discovered open and vulnerable container

orchestration panels in the cloud.

21,169

95%

58%

30

Internet Facing Clusters

During the week of June 1st, 2018 wediscovered more than 21,000 publiclyfacing container orchestration platforms.

Hosted on AWS

By far the highest percentage of clustersare hosted in AWS. Followed up byGoogle Cloud and OVH.

Hosted in United States

There were more than 14 differentcountries represented. The top 5 afterthe US were; Ireland, Germany, Australia,Singapore, and the UK. The most popularAWS region is US East.

Open with no Password

We identified 305  Management Clustersthat had no authentication turned on,virtually given at attacker completeaccess. Additionally several had theability to perform remote code executionvia their API's or UI. 

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305

78%

Kubernetes represented more than 78%of all open IP's, followed by; DockerSwarm options, Mesos, and thenMarathon. Swarm options were;Portainer, Docker Swarm, andSwarmpit.io.

Kubernetes Top Ranked