Accurate OpenStack Threat Modeling is now Possible
Challenges of OpenStack Threat Modeling
Many organizations utilizing OpenStack face difficulties in accurately representing their cloud architectures within threat modeling tools. Current solutions often lack granular components specific to OpenStack, forcing users to rely on generic representations. This leads to:
- High-level, abstract and generic threat models that miss critical vulnerabilities.
- Generic threats and countermeasures that are not tailored to OpenStack environments.
- Increased effort in customizing generic components, delaying threat modeling processes.
Ultimately, this hinders a thorough understanding and mitigation of security risks within OpenStack deployments.
Most Affected Industries
OpenStack and Open Infrastructure designs are used across multiple industries:
- Academic / Research / Government
- Cloud Hosting / MSP / Telco
- Film / Media / Gaming
- Finance / Insurance
- Healthcare
- Information Technology
- Manufacturing / Industrial
- Transportation
- Retail
- Web / SaaS / E-Commerce
IriusRisk Solution: Granular OpenStack Threat Modeling
IriusRisk now offers enhanced OpenStack components, providing users with the tools to build detailed and accurate threat models. These components represent the most used and popular OpenStack services and technologies, including adjacent services, and allow users to model designs at any level of abstraction.
Benefits and Value:
- Accurate Threat Identification: Identify relevant and specific OpenStack threats and countermeasures.
- Detailed Threat Models: Create threat models with granular components, reflecting the complexity of OpenStack designs.
- Holistic Open Infrastructure Threat Models: Create accurate and detailed hybrid cloud, hyperscaler and open infrastructure threat models with this newly added and enhanced content.
- Increased Efficiency: Reduce the time and effort required to model OpenStack environments.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Gain a deeper understanding of potential vulnerabilities and strengthen security strategies.
There is a solid foundation of existing hyperscaler components to create the widest range of possible designs:
- 205 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Components
- 176 Microsoft Azure Components
- 65 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Components
- 50 Alibaba Cloud Components
- 24 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- 15 Huawei Cloud Components
With the 40 new OpenStack components in IriusRisk, users can effectively manage and mitigate risks in their OpenStack deployments, ensuring a more secure and resilient infrastructure.
All OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Docker components available in IriusRisk as of v4.43 are listed below:
OpenStack:
- OpenStack Adjutant
- OpenStack Aurora
- OpenStack AWX
- OpenStack Barbican
- OpenStack Blazar
- OpenStack Ceph
- OpenStack Cinder
- OpenStack CloudKitty
- OpenStack Concourse
- OpenStack Cyborg
- OpenStack Designate
- OpenStack Glance
- OpenStack Heat
- OpenStack Horizon
- OpenStack Ironic
- OpenStack Karbor
- OpenStack Keppel
- OpenStack Keystone
- OpenStack Kuryr
- OpenStack Magnum
- OpenStack Manila
- OpenStack Masakari
- OpenStack Mistral
- OpenStack Monasca
- OpenStack Murano
- OpenStack Netbox
- OpenStack Neutron
- OpenStack Nova
- OpenStack Octavia
- OpenStack Placement
- OpenStack Sahara
- OpenStack Senlin
- OpenStack Solum
- OpenStack Storlets
- OpenStack Swift
- OpenStack Tacker
- OpenStack Trove
- OpenStack Vitrage
- OpenStack Watcher
- OpenStack Zaqar
Kubernetes/ K8s:
- Kubernetes External Services
- Kubernetes Cluster
- Kubernetes Control Plane
- Kubernetes Namespace
- Kubernetes Pod
- Kubernetes Secret
- Kubernetes worker node
- OpenShift Cluster
- Orchestration
Docker:
- Docker Client
- Docker Container
- Docker Linux Host
- Docker Registry
For further information, technical details and How Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes Combine to Deliver an Open Source Powered Infrastructure Stack. See your copy of the OpenStack One Pager here.
FAQs
Adrian Bettag
