Autonomous Runtime Security

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

6-17Mi memory footprint, validated across 1,000+ pod-hours

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.xyz/protect=true
App Sidecar
pandocore.xyz/protect=true
App Sidecar
no label
App
kube-system excluded
sidecar injection skipped
evidence
portal.pandocore.xyz 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 ✓ Continues working
Authentication ✓ Continues working
Service Mesh ✓ Continues working
Observability ✓ Continues working
Secrets Management ✓ Continues working
Network Policies ✓ Continues working

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 10+ real-world workloads over 5,000+ pod-hours with neglibible false positives. Every capability is backed by measured results from continuous soak testing against diverse production-representative applications.

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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 behavioral detection alongside your existing preventive tools

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.

5,000+
Pod-Hours
Sub-0.005%
False Positive Rate
100M+
Samples Collected
1M+
Attestation Checks Passed
~10 Mi
Memory Overhead
10+
Workload Types

Zero false positives means PandoCore can run in enforce mode without disrupting legitimate workloads. The sidecar profiles each workload automatically across web servers, databases, and JIT and interpreted runtimes, with no manual tuning required.

Current Stage

PandoCore is a production-ready behavioral runtime monitoring sidecar for Kubernetes. The core detection engine, admission webhook, and policy system are complete and validated.

Development Milestones

Phase 1 (Complete): Core sidecar and behavioral monitoring

  • Rust-based sidecar with behavioral anomaly detection
  • Adaptive baseline learning (zero configuration required)
  • Three operating modes: Monitor, Alert, Enforce
  • Structured evidence generation and Prometheus metrics

Phase 2 (Complete): Enterprise features and validation

  • Admission webhook for automatic sidecar injection via label
  • CRD-based policy (PandoCorePolicy) for declarative GitOps configuration
  • Graduated response: alert, network isolation (NetworkPolicy), terminate
  • Slack integration and portal dashboard
  • Extended soak testing: 10+ workloads, 1,000+ pod-hours, 0 false positives

Phase 3 (In Progress): Extended monitoring and hardening

  • Pod-level monitoring across all containers
  • Canary execution verification (clean replica comparison)
  • 30-day extended validation with pod-level monitoring
  • Extended platform validation (EKS, AKS)
  • Additional alert integrations (PagerDuty, Splunk)

Phase 4 (Planned): Fleet operations and enterprise scale

  • DaemonSet layer for node-level sensing and fleet-wide visibility
  • Cross-pod attack correlation and cluster-wide anomaly detection
  • eBPF syscall monitoring for deeper behavioral insight
  • CLI tool (pandoctl) for streamlined cluster management
  • Sidecar tamper resistance via external watchdog

Ready to Try PandoCore?

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