Cloud Security Baseline For Scale
Cloud Security Podcast1 Heinä 2023

Cloud Security Baseline For Scale

Cloud Security Podcast - Automating a Security Baseline in Cloud with Olivia Siow (⁠Olivia's Linkedin⁠) and David Levitsky (⁠David's Linkedin⁠). In this episode Olivia and David shared their experience of how they were able to empower developers to always do the right thing through positive reinforcements like making default libraries as part of the AWS Account build to scale security across their organisation. There were lot more gems dropped so def check out the episode.


Episode YouTube Video - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpiDcowl2A⁠


Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (⁠⁠@hashishrajan⁠⁠)

Guest Socials: Olivia Siow (⁠Olivia's Linkedin⁠) and David Levitsky (⁠David's Linkedin⁠)

Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@CloudSecureNews⁠⁠

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(00:00) Introduction

(04:16) A bit about Olivia Siow

(04:31) A bit about David Levitsky

(04:54) Cloud Security Baseline

(06:38) Do all organisations need a cloud security baseline?

(07:16) Does cloud security baseline help with scaling?

(07:34) Success Metrics for establishing cloud security baseline

(10:41) The cultural side of building a baseline

(11:40) Anatomy of AWS Cloud Account at Scale

(12:58) Building Blocks of Cloud Security Baseline

(16:54) Non Technical Challenges

(19:24) Organisation Challenges

(21:41) Would larger organisations have multiple baselines?

(23:34) Baseline for Multicloud or hybridcloud

(26:10) Use case with terraform cloud and route 53

(30:26) What telemetry is important

(32:36) Segregating Logs in a cloud context

(33:58) Can be done with any cloud and tool of choice

(34:43) Baseline vs CNAPP + CSPM

(37:56) Team skill requirement

(39:16) The fun section

(45:13) Where can you connect with Olivia and David to continue the conversation

See you at the next episode!

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