This week, we noticed that data breach attackers targeted a substantial number of hospitals. north Carolina patients are being impacted the most currently. Along with health groups like Atrium and Novant Health, nonprofit Save the Children was hit by a breach, as was the TransUnion credit bureau and Caesars Entertainment. A huge number of people were impacted by this breach between these different major organizations.
Both Atrium Health and Novant Health are health organizations that work with a large number of hospitals offering services. These v work with data from thousands of patients and enable standard hospital practices to occur. Between the two organizations, a huge number of different hospitals and private practices are involved. That's why it's upsetting to learn that both of these organizations were recently breached.
By default, traffic leaving a Kubernetes cluster lacks a meaningful network identity, making it challenging to associate it with its source workload. This is an issue because, in an on-premises infrastructure, companies rely on firewalls, for example Sophos Firewall, to inspect this traffic which loses its identity as soon as it leaves the cluster.