Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The Enterprise OPA Platform is growing fast. With some organizations having hundreds of teams managing close to a thousand applications, we knew it was time for a major UI upgrade—on top of all the backend optimizations we make behind the scenes. Today, we’re excited to introduce the new Styra DAS UI, designed to help IAM engineers and application developers manage authorization at an unmatched scale.

In February of 2025, North Korean state-backed cybercriminals stole over $1.9 billion from a popular crypto exchange. That's a mind-boggling amount of money, let alone from a breach. But here's the craziest part; it was excruciatingly simple. In short, it went down like this: an engineer was phished, attackers located static API keys — and just like that, attackers had direct access to critical cloud resources. Static credentials strike again.

Security teams today face increasing pressure to quantify the effectiveness of their application security programs. Whether it’s justifying security investments to leadership or demonstrating compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, teams struggle to showcase the real impact of their security efforts. Without clear, actionable data, proving that an AppSec program is actively reducing risk becomes a challenge. That changes today.

On March 24, 2025, Wiz Research disclosed a series of critical vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes, collectively dubbed: These unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities have been assigned a CVSS base score of 9.8. According to Wiz Research, exploitation allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to all secrets across all namespaces in affected Kubernetes clusters, potentially leading to complete cluster takeover.

Kubernetes has evolved into the industry standard for orchestrating containerized applications. In this article, we break down the architecture of a Kubernetes cluster using practical examples, and code snippets. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced engineer, you’ll gain clarity on the roles of control plane (historically “master”) and worker nodes, the nuances of multi-control-plane deployments, and updated OpenShift configurations.