Guest:

  • Seth Vargo, Principal Software Engineer responsible for Google's use of the public cloud, Google

Topics:

  • Google uses the public cloud, no way, right? Which one? Oh, yeah, I guess this is obvious: GCP, right?
  • Where are we like other clients of GCP? Where are we not like other cloud users?
  • Do we have any unique cloud security technology that we use that others may benefit from?
  • How does our cloud usage inform our cloud security products?
  • So is our cloud use profile similar to cloud natives or traditional companies?
  • What are some of the most interesting cloud security practices and controls that we use that are usable by others?
  • How do we make them work at scale?

Resources:

  • EP12 Threat Models and Cloud Security (previous episode with Seth)
  • EP66 Is This Binary Legit? How Google Uses Binary Authorization and Code Provenance
  • EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil
  • EP158 Ghostbusters for the Cloud: Who You Gonna Call for Cloud Forensics
  • IAM Deny
  • Seth Vargo blog
  • “Attention Is All You Need” paper (yes, that one)