Achieving Balance Between Security and Performance in Falco | Project Lightning Talk
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 26/03/2024

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Achieving Balance Between Security and Performance in Falco | Project Lightning Talk

Falco, the CNCF runtime security project, is trusted by organizations big and small to tirelessly overlook hundreds of thousands of servers, processing hundreds of thousands of events per second for each node. In this lightning talk, we'll show you some of the most sensitive spots of the Falco architecture and how we strive to keep them optimized and secure. Developing our project poses interesting challenges to the maintainers and contributors: we fight to create a high-performance piece of software that won’t eat your cluster resources with the help of fine-tuned C and C++ code while at the same time fighting against the many security pitfalls we encounter along the way (that’s the part where C and C++ definitely do not help). By taking a deep dive in the system architecture and maintainers’ work you will learn why Falco is powerful and fast at rich event detection and what we are careful about when using and developing it.