Fips

If you work with US government entities or corporations in regulated markets the subject of FIPS compliance may come up, especially in the context of FedRAMP authorization. FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 are a set of cryptographic standards that your application may need to adhere to dictating the appropriate ciphers or cryptographic functions that are in use. It can take a lot of effort to run a completely FIPS compliant architecture, but for application developers, the bottom line is that any code that uses cryptographic operations to secure customer data must use FIPS certified cryptographic libraries. ...

One of the larger hurdles to climb when becoming FedRamp moderate is encrypting all data in transit using FIPS validated encryption modules. This article describes one approach to satisfying this requirement for anyone running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. For those lucky souls who are unfamiliar with FIPS, it stands for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), which is a joint US and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. FedRamp specifically requires you to satisfy two related controls: SC-8 and SC-13. ...