Policies

Policies are the main way for users to configure their Spyderbat environment. Policies provide users with a way to generate tailored alerts, and tune out noise. Currently, policies fall under 1 of 2 categories, guardian and suppression.

• Guardian Policies are designed to establish expected behavior of the resources within their scope be it Linux Services, Containers, or Kubernetes Clusters.

• Suppression Policies are a way of tuning out the noise of Spyderbat's built-in detections. While Spydertraces aim at reducing the number of alerts a user should investigate, varying factors can lead to situations where suppression policies are necessary.

Policy Type	Category	Supported Selectors	Supported Response Actions	Supports Rulesets
linux-service	Guardian Workload	Cluster Machine Service	makeRedFlag makeOpsFlag agentKillProcess agentKillProcessGroup	No
container	Guardian Workload	Cluster Machine Namespace Pod Container	makeRedFlag makeOpsFlag agentKillProcess agentKillProcessGroup agentKillPod	No
cluster	Guardian Ruleset	Cluster	makeRedFlag makeOpsFlag agentKillPod	Yes
trace	Suppression	Cluster Machine Trace User	N/A	No

Related Pages

• Response Actions - Actions that can be taken by Guardian Policies.

• Selectors - Reference documentation on the various selector types.

• Rulesets - Rulesets supported by some policies.