KubeCON Europe 2026 - Security News and Updates

Talks

How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn From It - Lorin Lehawany & Sven Nobis, ERNW

In this insightful talk, Lorin Lehawany and Sven Nobis from ERNW delve into the challenges of maintaining multi-tenancy in Kubernetes environments. They share real-world examples of how multi-tenancy can be compromised and provide actionable insights on how to prevent such breaches.

Demos included:

• Kubeflow
• Istio
• Traefik

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What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes - Rory McCune, Datadog

Rory McCune showed the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of Kubernetes security. He compared different models and showed different techniques used by the LLMs to attack Kubernetes clusters.

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CNCF Project Updates

Kyverno Graduation

Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine, has graduated to a CNCF project. This milestone reflects Kyverno's maturity and widespread adoption in the Kubernetes ecosystem. With this graduation, Kyverno will continue to receive support and contributions from the community, ensuring its ongoing development and enhancement.

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Kyverno ClusterPolicy Deprecation

Kyverno, a popular Kubernetes policy engine, has announced the deprecation of its Cluster Policy feature beginning with version 1.17. This change is part of Kyverno's ongoing efforts to streamline its offerings and focus on a CEL-first architecture. Users are encouraged to transition to the new policy management resources like ValidatingPolicy and MutatingPolicy.

For any consultation or assistance with migrating your policies, feel free to reach out to our team at KolTEQ.

Ingress Nginx Live Repository Archive

The famous Ingress Nginx project has been archived live on stage during the conference. At this point you should already be aware of the fact that Ingress Nginx is no longer maintained and you should migrate to a different ingress controller. If you haven't done so yet, we recommend looking into alternatives such as Traefik or a migration to Gateway API.

Kubescape 4.0 - Ready for the AI Era

Kubescape, a popular Kubernetes security tool, has released version 4.0 with "enterprise-grade stability and advanced threat detection" features. In addition Kubescape introduces features for AI Agents to enable security posture scanning for AI Agents.

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