DoK Talks #94- Security and SRE // Tammy Butow & Prima Virani

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Prima and Tammy join us to discuss the bridges between Security and SRE. How can these two teams work best together? What can they learn from each other? Prima is a Security Engineer and Tammy is a Site Reliability Engineer. They are both Australians living in the USA with 10+ years of experience each working in tech.

TALK TAKEAWAYS

1.You'll learn tips for SRE and Security teams to work together
2.You'll learn what SREs can learn from Security and vice versa
3.You'll learn about the new field of DevSecOps and how it can help your organisation improve

BIO

Tammy Bryant Butow is a principal SRE at Gremlin, where she works on chaos engineering—the facilitation of controlled experiments to identify improvements. Gremlin's enterprise Chaos Engineering platform makes it easy to build more reliable applications in order to prevent outages, innovate faster, and earn customer trust. Previously, Tammy led SRE teams at Dropbox responsible for the databases and storage systems used by over 500 million customers and was an IMOC (incident manager on call), where she was responsible for managing and resolving high-severity incidents across the company. She has also worked in infrastructure engineering, security engineering, and product engineering. Tammy is the cofounder of Girl Geek Academy, a global movement to teach one million women technical skills by 2025. Tammy is an Australian and enjoys riding bikes, skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing. She also loves mosh pits, crowd surfing, metal, and hardcore punk.

Prima is a seasoned Security professional who has worked in a variety of industries such as Consumer Tech, Oil & Gas, Media, and Fin-tech. She is a Senior Security Engineer on the SIRT team at Segment where she enjoys creating automation tooling for Incident Response and occasionally dabbles in Security DevOps. She loves sharing her experiences with the industry and has spoken at many meetups and conferences globally including, but not limited to, Agile India 2020, MacDevOpsCon Vancouver 2019, and Grace Hopper Conference 2017.