Falco is a cloud native runtime security tool for Linux operating systems. It is designed to detect and alert on abnormal behavior and potential security threats in real-time.
At its core, Falco is a kernel monitoring and detection agent that observes events, such as syscalls, based on custom rules. Falco can enhance these events by integrating metadata from the container runtime and Kubernetes. The collected events can be analyzed off-host in SIEM or data lake systems.
Falco provides real-time detection capabilities for environments from individual containers, hosts, Kubernetes and the cloud. It’s able to detect and alert on abnormal behavior and potential security threats in real-time, such as crypto mining, file exfiltration, privilege escalation in applications, rootkit installs among many others. These malicious behaviors are detected via user-defined Falco rules that classify events of application activity as malicious or suspicious.
Falco, originally created by Sysdig, is a graduated project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) used in production by various organisations.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/falcosecurity/falco
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Developer: CNCF
License: Apache License 2.0
Falco is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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