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mukul975 8cae0648ec Add 55 new skills across 3 new domains + 6 undercovered areas (762 -> 817)
Demand-driven expansion targeting the fastest-growing 2025-2026 threat and
skills categories (ISC2/WEF/CrowdStrike/Mandiant signals):

- AI Security (NEW domain, 12 skills): LLM red-teaming with garak/PyRIT,
  prompt injection (direct/indirect/RAG), MCP tool-poisoning, agentic tool
  invocation, guardrails, model/data poisoning, system-prompt leakage,
  embedding/vector weaknesses, model extraction, continuous red-teaming
- Supply Chain Security (NEW domain, 5 skills): SBOMs, dependency confusion,
  malicious-npm triage, typosquatting, SLSA/Sigstore provenance
- Hardware & Firmware Security (NEW domain, 4 skills): CHIPSEC/UEFI audit,
  Secure Boot bypass, TPM measured-boot attestation, ESP bootkit hunting
- Identity (10): Entra ID/ROADtools, GraphRunner, AADInternals, ADCS/Certipy,
  shadow credentials, coercion, BloodHound CE, device-code phishing, SSO abuse
- Cloud-native (8): Stratus, Pacu, CloudFox, container escape, K8s RBAC,
  Falco, Trivy, kube-bench
- Offensive C2 (6): Sliver, Havoc, NetExec, DPAPI, NTLM relay ESC8, redirectors
- DFIR (6): Hayabusa, Chainsaw, KAPE, Velociraptor, EZ Tools, Plaso
- Backfill (4): OpenCTI, MISP, honeytokens, post-quantum crypto migration

Each skill follows the repo taxonomy (SKILL.md + references/{standards,api-reference}.md
+ scripts/agent.py + LICENSE), with researched real tool commands (no placeholders),
complete frontmatter, and ATT&CK/ATLAS + NIST CSF mappings. Updates README domain
table, skill count, and index.json.
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kube-bench — Command and Flag Reference

Core Commands

Command Description
kube-bench Auto-detect version and run all applicable checks
kube-bench run Explicit run command (use with --targets/--benchmark)
kube-bench version Print kube-bench version

Key Flags

Flag Description Example
--targets Component groups to test --targets master,node,etcd,policies,controlplane,managedservices
--benchmark Pin a specific benchmark revision --benchmark cis-1.8
--version Map by Kubernetes version --version 1.27
--check Run only specific check IDs (comma list) --check 1.2.1,1.2.2
--skip Skip specific check IDs --skip 4.2.6
--json Output results as JSON --json
--junit Output results as JUnit XML --junit
--asff AWS Security Finding Format (Security Hub) --asff
--pgsql Write results to PostgreSQL --pgsql
--outputfile Write output to a file --outputfile report.json
--config-dir Path to config/cfg directory --config-dir /etc/kube-bench/cfg
--config Path to alternate config.yaml --config ./config.yaml
--include-test-output Include raw command output in results --include-test-output

Targets

Target Scope
master Control-plane: API server, scheduler, controller manager
etcd etcd datastore configuration
controlplane Authentication/authorization and logging policies
node kubelet and kube-proxy on worker nodes
policies RBAC, service accounts, pod security, network policy
managedservices Managed-service-specific controls (EKS/GKE/etc.)

Benchmark Profiles (examples)

Benchmark Platform
cis-1.8, cis-1.9 Upstream Kubernetes (CIS)
eks-1.5.0 Amazon EKS
gke-1.6.0 Google GKE
aks-1.7 Azure AKS
rke2-cis-1.7, k3s-cis-1.7 Rancher RKE2 / k3s
ocp-4.x OpenShift

In-Cluster Job Manifests

File Use
job.yaml Generic in-cluster run
job-master.yaml Control-plane node checks
job-node.yaml Worker node checks
job-eks.yaml, job-gke.yaml, job-aks.yaml Managed-platform variants
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/main/job.yaml
kubectl logs -l app=kube-bench

Result States

State Meaning
PASS Check satisfied
FAIL Check failed — remediation required
WARN Manual verification needed
INFO Informational only

External References