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Denial of service

Info

ID: MS-TA9040
Tactic: Impact
MITRE technique: T1498, T1499

Attackers may attempt to perform a denial of service attack, which makes the service unavailable to the legitimate users. In container clusters, this include attempts to block the availability of the containers themselves, the underlying nodes, or the API server.

Mitigations

ID Mitigation Description
MS-M9011 Restrict Container Runtime using LSM Restrict execution of unwanted processes in containers.
MS-M9002 Restrict access to the API server using IP firewall Restrict access to the API server from known IP addresses.
MS-M9029 Set requests and limits for containers Limit compute resources for containers.