AWS SECURITY IN A LARGE REGULATED ENTERPRISE! - HOUSTON HOPKINS, CAPITAL ONE

AWS SECURITY IN A LARGE REGULATED ENTERPRISE! - HOUSTON HOPKINS, CAPITAL ONE

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Houston Hopkins, Director CyberSecurity, Capital One

In this episode, Houston & Ashish spoke about

  • What was your path into CyberSecurity?
  • How Capital one pioneered as bank moving into AWS Cloud?
  • What immediate security challenges does Cloud Security in a Hybrid world look like, without going into tools.
  • Do you prefer to use AWS native tools for security observability or a vendor product?
  • What are some of the Security challenges to solve when looking at a large cloud landscape? (threat detection at scale, continuous compliance etc)
  • Is accountability a challenge for Cloud at Scale?
  • Does this change quite a bit for security in one cloud compared to another? (resources that know multiple cloud etc)
  • Which approach do you recommend - Standardizing security vs Operationalize and Manage with more staff for effective security across multi-cloud environments?
  • Immediate challenges around multi-cloud - Maintaining visibility of assets and secure configurations in a large multi-cloud environment
  • What does detection and prevention look like in a cloud landscape?
  • How do you keep track of all the AWS services?
  • What security controls across compute heavy vs serverless vs containers in a multi-cloud world
  • How do you get visibility in the current poly-cloud or multi-cloud world?

ShowNotes and Episode Transcript on www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv

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