3 papers
cs.CR2026
Thou Shall Not Pass: Gatekeeping Outbound TLS Connections
Henrique B. Brum, Matteo Franzil, Riccardo Germenia +3
Despite the widespread use of Transport Layer Security (TLS), its security guarantees are frequently compromised by outdated versions and misconfigurations. To analyze this problem…
cs.CR2026
Sharpening Kubernetes Audit Logs with Context Awareness
Matteo Franzil, Valentino Armani, Luis Augusto Dias Knob +1
Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto orchestrator of microservices, providing scalability and extensibility to a highly dynamic environment. It builds an intricate and deeply con…
cs.CR2025
Exploiting Kubernetes' Image Pull Implementation to Deny Node Availability
Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Matteo Franzil, Domenico Siracusa
Kubernetes (K8s) has grown in popularity over the past few years to become the de-facto standard for container orchestration in cloud-native environments. While research is not new…