Episode 26: Current Challenges With Cloud

Attendees Guest: Gadi Naor  Guest Title: VP Software Engineering, Cloud Security @ Rapid7 Topic: Cloud Native Security Foundations Abstract Lately, The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) released the cloud native security whitepaper: the first release of security guidelines for organizations who adopt cloud native approaches. In order to better understand the guidelines, we hosted Gadi Naor, VP Software Engineering, Cloud Security @ Rapid7, and co-author of the guidelines, for a conversation about what is cloud native security and why & how organizations should adopt this approach. ...

Attendees Guest: Eran Feigenbaum Guest title:  CSO, Oracle Cloud Abstract The first generation of cloud services began about 15 years ago and stretched until now, but it came with many built-in challenges due to lack of maturity and the fact that security was added on top and not present from the start. In this episode we talk with Eran Feigenbaum, CISO of Oracle cloud about the next generation of cloud services - how can we build cloud that is more secure,, immuned to miss-configuration and other pitfalls that are relevant to today's cloud services. Timing: 0:00 introducing our guest 5:40 Generation one of cloud infrastructure 8:40 so what is second generation of cloud infrastructure 10:30 how Oracle is planning to change the cloud market 11:40 how second generation cloud services can help with common mistakes such as misconfiguration 13:35 what cloud provider should do in order to increase security 16:05 how cloud providers can  be proactive with their customers 19:00 handling miss-configuration such as open buckets and lost API’s keys 23:40 summary and last words ...

Attendees Guest: Oz Avenstein Guest Title:  Founder Company:  Avensec Abstract Penetration tests are one of the strongest controls that we use. It is testing the overall resilience of our application and allows us to be more confident in our workloads. But in the cloud era, cloud applications pen testing needs to be coordinated with the providers. In this episode we talk with Oz Avenstein, an application security expert, about the challenges of cloud penetration testing and how to do it correctly. Timing: 0.50 introducing our guest 3.40 How is cloud penetration tests different from regular pen tests? 5.01 elaborating about IaaS/PaaS particular pen test policies  8.45 pen testing SaaS applications  11.05 relaying on 3rd party pen testing 12.02 cloud pen test considerations and phases 17.35 the actual pen testing  21.20 the reporting phase 23.40 incorporating pen test into applications development cycle  34:00 Summary and last words   ...