Control Plane Security
Noun · Security & Infosec
Definitions
Security for the management layer that controls infrastructure, orchestration, identity, and policy decisions rather than the workloads themselves. Because the control plane can reconfigure or access everything, compromise here is often catastrophic.
In plain English: Security for the systems that manage and control infrastructure.
Example: "The audit focused on control plane security because overly broad admin roles could rewire the whole cluster."