Kubescape Achieves Major Milestone in Open Source Kubernetes Security

Cloud Native Computing Foundation promotes Kubescape’s status to incubation due to largescale enterprise adoption and value it provides for Security and DevOps teams

Tel Aviv, Israel – February 25, 2025 – ARMO, the leading Cloud Runtime Security company and the creator of Kubescape, announced today that Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), the leading forum for cloud native software, has promoted Kubescape to incubating project status. This promotion represents a significant validation of Kubescape’s growing adoption, maturity, and value to the cloud native security and DevOps communities.

Kubescape, first accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in 2022, is an open source cloud and Kubernetes security project that provides risk analysis, security compliance, threat detection and misconfiguration and vulnerability scanning. Kubescape is the first Kubernetes security scanner that was accepted into the CNCF. It is used by thousands of organizations, including Intel, AWS, Bitnami, Cox, Energi Danmark and more. The project has seen substantial growth in its user base and contributor community since it was launched in late 2021, with over 10,400 GitHub stars and contributions from developers worldwide.

“Achieving incubation status is a testament to the hard work of the maintainers and the incredible support from the Kubescape community,” said Shauli Rozen, CEO and co-founder of ARMO. “Kubescape’s promotion reflects its increasing adoption and the critical role it plays in securing cloud native environments across the globe.”

“For the past three years, we’ve engaged with adopters across organizations of all sizes – from cybersecurity and telecommunications to financial services and e-commerce. The scale of adoption has validated our vision, particularly with Kubescape’s incorporation into AWS security training materials, Intel’s public endorsement, and its contribution to securing other open source projects through platforms like Bitnami. It’s remarkable to see how an informal conversation between friends over coffee has evolved into something that delivers substantial value to organizations worldwide,” said Ben Hirschberg, CTO and co-founder of ARMO.

“Projects like Kubescape provide adopters with a robust series of security capabilities that go beyond vulnerability scanning, to include all aspects of security considerations in Kubernetes environments. Kubescape’s promotion to Incubation shows not only the readiness and desire of adopters to take advantage of the solutions, such as security framework testing and hardening, but also demonstrates growing maturity and cloud native’s continued commitment to feature-rich security tools and projects which address multiple security concerns adopters have today and in the future,” said Emily Fox, Portfolio Security Architect at Red Hat and TOC Sponsor. “The Kubescape project’s incubation announcement and their commitment to simplifying security for adopters places them on a path to gain widespread traction with other adopters, accelerating contributor diversity and setting them up for success towards Graduation.”

Picture: The founders of ARMO: CEO Shauli Rozen and CTO Ben Hirschberg. Credit: ARMO