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Autonomous Runtime Defense

A Kubernetes sidecar that learns your workload's normal behavior and detects when something goes wrong. No rules. No configuration. Just deploy.

What PandoCore Does

Traditional runtime security tools require you to write detection rules for every threat you want to catch. If you don't write the rule, you miss the attack.

PandoCore takes a different approach. It automatically learns what normal looks like for each workload, then continuously monitors for deviations. When anomalous behavior is detected, it responds with a graduated action chain: alert, isolate, or terminate.

Autonomous Detection

Automatically learns normal patterns and detects anomalies

Automated Response

Graduated response: alert, network isolation, terminate

Zero Configuration

No rules to write, works out of the box

Minimal Overhead

~5-6 MiB memory footprint, measured across 20,000+ continuous pod-hours on GKE

Complements Your Security Stack

PandoCore installs an admission webhook in its own namespace and injects a sidecar only into the pods you label, leaving the rest of your cluster untouched.

Your Kubernetes Cluster
pando-system control
Admission Webhook 2 replicas (HA)
Dashboard polls /status
License Secret & PandoCorePolicy CRD
production your workload
pandocore.io/protect=true
App Sidecar
pandocore.io/protect=true
App Sidecar
no label
App
kube-system excluded
sidecar injection skipped
evidence
portal.pandocore.io evidence & heartbeat
Slack real-time alerts
optional
Your Webhook SIEM / custom
optional
1Webhook watches every pod create in the API server
2Sidecar is injected only into pods you label
3Evidence streams to the portal, Slack, or your webhook

Zoom in: inside a protected pod

Kubernetes Pod
Your Application
# Your code runs here process_data() run_inference() execute_logic()
Shared
Namespace
PandoCore Sidecar NEW
Baseline Learning
Anomaly Detection
Attack Detection
Same Lifecycle
Shared Network
Shared Volumes
No Code Changes

Works With Your Existing Security

Encryption
Authentication
Service Mesh
Observability
Secrets Management
Network Policies

Not a replacement. No new tooling. PandoCore operates transparently alongside your existing stack, monitoring automatically at runtime.

Security Principles

Our approach to security and reliability is built on fundamental principles:

Active Attack Resistance

Designed to detect and respond to common attack vectors including debugging attempts, memory inspection, code modification, and timing analysis. The system actively monitors execution to identify anomalous conditions.

Multi-Layered Defense

Cybersecurity requires multiple mechanisms working in concert. We encourage a layered approach where PandoCore works in tandem with encryption, authentication controls and observation. This ensures that compromise of any single element doesn't undermine overall protection.

Validated Performance

Validated across more than 20,000 continuous pod-hours on GKE, running production-representative synthetic workloads, with 2 false isolations and zero false terminations. Every capability is backed by measured results from continuous soak testing against diverse production-representative applications.

Developer Experience

Easy to Adopt

  • Deploys as a sidecar container alongside your existing Kubernetes workloads
  • No modifications required to your application code; protection is transparent
  • Compatible with existing CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and deployment processes
  • Fits into your current orchestration and security tooling workflows

Flexible & Powerful

  • Customizable parameters allow tuning security properties to match specific use case requirements
  • Sensible defaults enable quick deployment while advanced options support specialized needs
  • Works with containerized workloads across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments
  • Complements your existing runtime security tools; adds a behavioral detection-and-response layer alongside your rule-based tooling

Validated Against Real Workloads

PandoCore has been deployed alongside 10+ real-world workload types across extended continuous soak tests. No manual configuration or tuning was performed. All workloads ran with default settings.

20,000+
Pod-Hours
0
False Terminations
100M+
Samples Collected
1M+
Attestation Checks Passed
~5-6 MiB
Memory Overhead
10+
Workload Types

Two false isolations and zero false terminations across more than 20,000 continuous pod-hours on GKE, against production-representative synthetic workloads rather than customer traffic, means PandoCore's automated responses can run without disrupting legitimate workloads. The sidecar profiles each workload automatically across web servers, databases, and JIT and interpreted runtimes, with no manual tuning required.

Ready to Try PandoCore?

We're working with teams to bring behavioral runtime detection and response to production Kubernetes clusters. If you run sensitive workloads on Kubernetes, let's talk.