# Blog: Falco Graduates within the CNCF!

DevFeed: [Blog: Falco Graduates within the CNCF!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/blog-falco-graduates-within-the-cncf-32497.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://falco.org/blog/falco-graduation/>)

Published: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Falco - Falco](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/falco-falco.md>), [Falco - The Falco blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/falco-the-falco-blog.md>)

Topics: [Falco](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/falco.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [eBPF](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ebpf.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cncf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cncf.md>), [ebpf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ebpf.md>), [falco](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/falco.md>), [maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintainers.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

Falco has become a CNCF Graduated Project, a milestone the article associates with the project's maturity and dependability. It describes Falco's holistic approach to runtime security in cloud-native environments, including data collection, enrichment, orchestrator integration, source correlation, and policy management. The article also outlines plans for stronger detections, richer signals, lower noise, broader data-source coverage, and easier production deployment.

## Source excerpt

Today, the Falco project hit a big milestone: becoming a CNCF Graduated Project! Falco's graduation indicates the project's maturity and dependability, but most importantly, it is the culmination of a fantastic amount of work. The journey for Falco started in 2016 when the first commit was made. Today, Falco has become synonymous with "runtime security" due to its comprehensive approach to securing the highly complex and dynamic environments of the modern cloud era. "Falco approaches the security challenges associated with managing cloud native environments holistically," says Loris Degioanni, the project's founder. "Runtime security is more than eBPF-based data collection, it requires enrichment, orchestrator integration, correlation of different data sources, and a rich, well-maintained policy library. All of the things that Falco provides to its users." This holistic, runtime-centric approach to security is what makes Falco unique. It enables any organization to secure their infrastructure -- from scrappy startups to Fortune 500s. Since joining the CNCF, some of the largest enterprises in the world, including Amazon, Apple, IBM, and Red Hat, have contributed to Falco. The project also has a strong, rapidly growing community of adopters and has been downloaded over 100 million times! To the thousands of people who have helped Falco fly over the past years, thank you -- sincerely. Thank you to the Falco maintainers. Thank you to our CNCF Technical Oversight Committee sponsors, Emily Fox and Justin Cormack. Thank you to anyone who has ever raised an issue, submitted a pull request on GitHub, or just took part in our community. Thank you, also, to the thousands of organizations who have entrusted Falco with the security of your runtime environments. For us, Falco's Graduation represents a calling to continue to improve the project in a way that serves its users. We believe that runtime protection is vital to security, and that Falco is well positioned to power that sec