DISA Validates Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
April 24 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Approved for usage by U.S. government and
defense agencies
Mirantis, providing organizations with total control over their
strategic infrastructure using open source software, today
announced the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has
published and validated the Security Technical Implementation Guide
(STIG) for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) – also sold as
Containers as a Service-Government (CAAS-G) in public sector
markets.
This validation allows U.S. Government and specifically
Department of Defense (DoD) military agencies to deploy and use MKE
on DoD technology infrastructure, including for secure software
supply chains. Future releases of MKE can be quickly validated, and
the corresponding STIG updates published by Mirantis – working in
cooperation with DISA, who maintains the model STIGs for upstream
Kubernetes and the DevSecOps reference design for CNCF
Kubernetes.
“The publication of the latest STIG for MKE, combined with our
recent inclusion in the NatSec100 2023 List, allows users to deploy
with the full confidence that they can meet the most stringent
security standards and that Mirantis continues to be an innovator
in delivering secure technology products for the most demanding
implementations,” said Jason James, director of security,
Mirantis.
STIG validation is a security review and configuration standard
that helps ensure IT products and military agencies are complying
with DoD security policies. DISA-approved STIGs are a critical way
the agency works to safeguard DoD network resilience and protect
government information systems from cybersecurity threats and
malicious attacks by strengthening baseline security
configurations. The STIG for MKE includes technical guidance for
establishing a secure software supply chain using the platform.
By defining a tested reference configuration of MKE that meets
DoD security requirements, the DISA STIG for MKE can speed and
smooth the process of obtaining Authorization to Operate (ATO) for
critical applications. Software innovators who want to achieve
FedRAMP and other preliminary approvals on Kubernetes- or
Swarm-hosted solutions, and speed up gaining ATO for specific
implementations, will find it easier to work with MKE versus other
Kubernetes platform solutions. They will also find it easier to
collaborate with Mirantis, whose public sector expertise helps
guarantee short turnaround times on adjustments needed to
accommodate ATO requirements.
MKE (which evolved from Docker Enterprise/UCP) provides
enterprises with the easiest, fastest, and most secure way to
deploy cloud native applications at scale in any environment. It is
the only enterprise container platform that provides a simple,
complete cloud native experience and a central point of
collaboration for developers and operations to build, run, and
scale cloud native applications. MKE runs on bare metal, private,
or public cloud infrastructure.
For further details, please read the DISA Releases Mirantis
Kubernetes Engine STIG blog post.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self-determination
by using open source software to provide complete control over
their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent
automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating
virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
Mirantis enables platform teams to deliver a public-cloud
experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge,
with one cohesive cloud platform for complete application and
operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated
full-stack lifecycle management – all based on open source using
open-standard APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises,
including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and
S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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