Guest:

  • Merritt Baer, Field CTO, Lacework, ex-AWS, ex-USG

Topics:

  • How can organizations ensure that their security posture is maintained or improved during a cloud migration? Is cloud migration a risk reduction move?
  • What are some of the common security challenges that organizations face during a cloud migration?
  • Are there different gotchas between the three public clouds?
  • What advice would you give to those security leaders who insist on lift/shift or on lift/shift first?
  • How should security and compliance teams approach their engineering and DevOps colleagues to make sure things are starting on the right foot?
  • In your view, what is the essence of a cloud-native approach to security?
  • How can organizations ensure that their security posture scales as their cloud usage grows?

Resources:

  • Video (LinkedIn, YouTube)
  • EP69 Cloud Threats and How to Observe Them
  • EP138 Terraform for Security Teams: How to Use IaC to Secure the Cloud
  • EP67 Cyber Defense Matrix and Does Cloud Security Have to DIE to Win?
  • 9 Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all
  • Darknet Diaries podcast