ThreatMapper – Identify Vulnerabilities In Running Containers, Images, Hosts And Repositories

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The Deepfence Runtime Threat Mapper is a subset of the Deepfence cloud native workload protection platform, released as a community edition. This community edition empowers the users with following features:

  1. Visualization: Visualize kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, containers and images, running processes, and network connections in near real time.

  2. Runtime Vulnerability Management: Perform vulnerability scans on running containers & hosts as well as container images.

  3. Container Registry Scanning: Check for vulnerabilities in images stored on AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Container Registry, Docker Hub, Docker Self-Hosted Private Registry, Quay, Harbor, Gitlab and JFrog registries.

  4. CI/CD Scanning: Scan images as part of existing CI/CD Pipelines like CircleCI, Jenkins & GitLab.

  5. Integrations with SIEM, Notification Channels & Ticketing: Ready to use integrations with Slack, PagerDuty, HTTP endpoint, Jira, Splunk, ELK, Sumo Logic and Amazon S3.

Live Demo

https://deepfence.io/community-demo-form/

Architecture

A pictorial depiction of the Deepfence Architecture is below

DF Architecture

Feature Availability

Features Runtime Threat mapper (Community Edition) Workload Protection Platform (Enterprise Edition)
Discover & Visualize Running Pods, Containers and Hosts
✔️

(unlimited)

✔️

(unlimited)

Runtime Vulnerability Management for hosts/VMs
✔️

(unlimited)

✔️

(unlimited)

Runtime Vulnerability Management for containers
✔️

(unlimited)

✔️

(unlimited)

Container Registry Scanning
✔️
✔️
CI/CD Integration
✔️
✔️
Multiple Clusters
✔️
✔️
Integrations with SIEMs, Slack and more
✔️
✔️
Compliance Automation
✔️
Deep Packet Inspection of Encrypted & Plain Traffic
✔️
API Inspection
✔️
Runtime Integrity Monitoring
✔️
Network Connection & Resource Access Anomaly Detection
✔️
Workload Firewall for Containers, Pods and Hosts
✔️
Quarantine & Network Protection Policies
✔️
Alert Correlation
✔️
Serverless Protection
✔️
Windows Protection
✔️
Highly Available & Multi-node Deployment
✔️
Multi-tenancy & User Management
✔️
Enterprise Support
✔️

Getting Started

The Deepfence Management Console is first installed on a separate system. The Deepfence agents are then installed onto bare-metal servers, Virtual Machines, or Kubernetes clusters where the application workloads are deployed, so that the host systems, or the application workloads, can be scanned for vulnerabilities.

A pictorial depiction of the Deepfence security platform is as follows:

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Deepfence Management Console

Pre-Requisites for Management Console

Feature Requirements
CPU: No of cores 4
RAM 16 GB
Disk space At-least 120 GB
Port range to be opened for receiving data from Deepfence agents 8000 – 8010
Port to be opened for web browsers to be able to communicate with the Management console to view the UI 443
Docker binaries At-least version 18.03
Docker-compose binary Version 1.20.1

Following table gives the number of nodes that can be supported with different console machine configurations assuming a single node deployment of console. Memory optimised instances are shown to perform better.

CPU RAM Nodes supported
4 cores 16 GB RAM 250 nodes
8 cores 16 GB RAM 500 nodes
8 cores 32 GB RAM 1000 nodes
16 cores 32 GB RAM 1400-1500 nodes

In order to support higher numbers of nodes (i.e. hosts as number of containers can be unlimited theoretically based on their life times) ThreatMapper needs to be deployed as a 3 node k8s cluster to scale up to 10000 nodes, instructions to follow.

Installation of Deepfence Management Console

Installing the Management Console is as easy as:

  1. Download the file docker-compose.yml to the desired system.
  2. Execute the following command
    docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
  3. Open management console ip address / domain in the browser (https://x.x.x.x) and register a new account. Steps: Register a User
  4. Get Deepfence api key from UI: Goto Settings -> User Management, copy api key. In the following docker run command, replace C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0 with api Key. Steps: Deepfence API Key
    docker run -dit --cpus=".2" --name=deepfence-agent --restart on-failure --pid=host --net=host --privileged=true -v /sys/kernel/debug:/sys/kernel/debug:rw -v /var/log/fenced -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /:/fenced/mnt/host/:ro -e USER_DEFINED_TAGS="" -e DF_BACKEND_IP="127.0.0.1" -e DEEPFENCE_KEY="C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0" deepfenceio/deepfence_agent_ce:latest

This is the minimal installation required to quickly get started on scanning various container images. The necessary images may now be downloaded onto this Management Console and scanned for vulnerabilities.

Terraform

  • Terraform module to provision Deepfence ThreatMapper on GCP Compute Engine

Installation with custom TLS certificates

Custom TLS certificates are supported for the web application hosted on the console machine. On the console machine users have to place the certificate and private key on /etc/deepfence/certs folder. Deepfence looks for the file with .key and .crt extentions on the specified location on the host.

Deepfence Agent

In order to check a host for vulnerabilities, or if docker images or containers that have to be checked for vulnerabilities are saved on different hosts, then the Deepfence agent needs to be installed on those hosts.

Pre-Requisites for Deepfence Agent

Feature Requirements
CPU: No of cores 2
RAM 1 GB
Disk space At-least 30 GB
Connectivity The host on which the Deepfence Agent is to be installed, is able to communicate with the Management Console on port range 8000-8010.
Linux kernel version >= 4.4
Docker binaries At-least version 18.03
Deepfence Management Console Installed on a host with IP Address x.x.x.x

Installation of Deepfence Agent

Installation procedure for the Deepfence agent depends on the environment that is being used. Instructions for installing Deepfence agent on some of the common platforms are given in detail below:

Deepfence Agent on Standalone VM or Host

Installing the Deepfence Agent is now as easy as:

  1. Get Deepfence api key from UI: Goto Settings -> User Management, copy api key
  2. In the following docker run command, replace x.x.x.x with the IP address of the Management Console and replace C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0 with api Key
    docker run -dit --cpus=".2" --name=deepfence-agent --restart on-failure --pid=host --net=host --privileged=true -v /sys/kernel/debug:/sys/kernel/debug:rw -v /var/log/fenced -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /:/fenced/mnt/host/:ro -e USER_DEFINED_TAGS="" -e DF_BACKEND_IP="x.x.x.x" -e DEEPFENCE_KEY="C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0" deepfenceio/deepfence_agent_ce:latest
  3. Optionally the agent node can be tagged using USER_DEFINED_TAGS="" in the above command. Tags should be comma separated. Example: “dev,front-end”

Deepfence Agent on Amazon ECS

For detailed instructions to deploy agents on Amazon ECS, please refer to our Amazon ECS wiki page.

Deepfence Agent Helm chart for Kubernetes

  • Start deepfence agent (replace x.x.x.x with the IP address of the Management Console and C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0 with api key)
# helm v2
helm install --repo https://deepfence.github.io/ThreatMapper/files/helm-chart deepfence-agent
--name=deepfence-agent
--set managementConsoleIp=x.x.x.x
--set deepfenceKey=C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0
# helm v3
helm install deepfence-agent --repo https://deepfence.github.io/ThreatMapper/files/helm-chart deepfence-agent
--set managementConsoleIp=x.x.x.x
--set deepfenceKey=C8TtyEtNB0gBo1wGhpeAZICNSAaGWw71BSdS2kLELY0
  • Delete deepfence agent
# helm v2
helm delete --purge deepfence-agent
# helm v3
helm delete deepfence-agent

Deepfence Agent on Google GKE

For detailed instructions to deploy agents on Google GKE, please refer to our Google GKE wiki page.

Deepfence Agent on Azure AKS

For detailed instructions to deploy agents on Azure Kubernetes Service, please refer to our Azure AKS wiki page.

Deepfence Agent on self-managed / on-premise Kubernetes

For detailed instructions to deploy agents on a Kubernetes cluster, please refer to our Self-managed/On-premise Kubernetes wiki page.

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