Guest:

  • Elliott Abraham, Security and Compliance Specialist @ Google Cloud

Topics:

  • We talk about lift and shift vs cloud native, what are these and are they fair characterizations?
  • Is lift and shift always negative? Does it always harm security?
  • Are security planning needs different between them?
  • What are the fundamentals with security during cloud migration that you have to get right regardless?
  • What’s your advice to a security team to help make a migration work well?
  • How do you account for threat model differences in the cloud? Are cloud threats being more different or more the same to the classic ones?

Resources:

  • “Google Cloud security foundations guide”
  • "The Phoenix Project" book
  • "Threat Models and Cloud Security" (ep12)
  • "Preparing for Cloud Migrations from a CISO Perspective" Part 1 (ep5) and Part2 (ep11)