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Runtime Verification

What Passed CI
Should Stay That Way.

Varydn Runtime Verification monitors your running systems continuously. When production drifts from its intended state, configuration changes, unexpected process behavior, image tampering, Varydn detects it and alerts your team before it becomes a breach.

Runtime Monitor - payments-api
Live
Image digest ✓ sha256:a3f91c2…
Config hash ✓ matches baseline
Network listeners ✓ :8080 only
Process tree ✓ /app only
Env vars ⚠ DRIFT DETECTED
Drift Alert: Environment variable DATABASE_URL changed outside of deployment pipeline. Previous: postgres://internal. Current: postgres://external-rw. Flagged for review.
Detection

Drift Doesn't Announce Itself

Production environments change in ways that CI never sees. Runtime verification covers the gap between deployment and the next audit.

Image Integrity

Continuously verify that running container images match their signed digests. Detect if an image has been replaced, tampered with, or substituted outside the pipeline.

Configuration Drift

Track environment variables, configuration files, and runtime parameters against baselines established at deployment. Changes outside pipelines trigger immediate alerts.

Process Behavior

Monitor process trees in running containers. Unexpected child processes, shell executions, or network connections outside the expected profile are flagged immediately.

Network Policy Compliance

Verify that services are only listening on expected ports and communicating with approved endpoints. Unexpected lateral movement or egress is caught in real time.

Policy Assertion

Assert that compliance-critical properties hold in production. TLS versions, allowed cipher suites, secret rotation status - on a scheduled or continuous basis.

Kubernetes Workload Verification

Continuously verify pod security contexts, resource limits, service account permissions, and admission controls against your defined security policies across all namespaces.

Continuous Assurance

The Verification That Never Stops

Passing a security check at deployment is necessary but not sufficient. Systems change. People make manual adjustments. Automated processes run with unintended side effects. Runtime Verification provides the continuous evidence trail that static checks cannot.

  • Baseline established from your verified deployment state
  • Continuous monitoring, not periodic scans
  • Alerting to PagerDuty, Slack, or your SIEM
  • Compliance timeline exportable for auditors
  • Available for Kubernetes, Docker, and bare-metal environments
Talk to the Team
VERIFIED - payments-api
All 12 assertions pass. Image digest, config, and network profile match baseline.
2025-04-05T11:47:02Z
DRIFT DETECTED - infra-api
Environment variable DATABASE_URL modified outside deployment pipeline. Alert sent to #security-alerts.
2025-04-05T11:52:18Z
WARNING - auth-service
Unexpected outbound connection to 203.0.113.45:443. Pod: auth-v2-84f9c7b-xl9k2. Under investigation.
2025-04-05T11:55:44Z

Always Know What's Running in Production

Runtime Verification is available as part of the Varydn Platform and Enterprise tiers. Request a demo to see how continuous assurance works in practice.