Capstone Thread

Add host and workload inventory, hardened baseline, memory-safety evidence, network flow matrix, TLS and proxy trust record, cloud account and IAM graph, workload identity, container/Kubernetes policy, exhaustion limits, correlated audit design, and compromise exercise.

Required evidence

Submit authorized topology, effective policy and reachability, commands and configuration, attack and denial evidence, correlated audit events, containment, regression or policy gate, and residual risk. Redact all credentials and sensitive identifiers.

Oral defense

Trace one path across host, network, cloud, and workload boundaries; identify the first effective control; demonstrate containment and credential revocation; and state the remaining trusted layer.

Source backbone

Use Building Secure and Reliable Systems, NIST SP 800-190, Kubernetes security docs, and official provider documentation.