AWS User Group Poland Kraków

Spring edition of the AWS User Group meetup in Krakow is 🔛 This time let's talk about security in the cloud and workflow automation.

🗓 Mark your calendar and join us: onsite or online.
🍕 + 🍺 = Let's gather around pizza and beer at Clico, Oleandry 2, Kraków
or
Watch the stream on YouTube (link TBA)
Hosted by:
Maciej Lelusz, AWS Hero
Pawel Kusinski, AWS Community Builder

🎤 Speakers:
〰️ „Cloud Under Fire: Real Attack Scenarios and Defense Strategies with CLICO & Rapid7"
Tomasz Wojtas & Mateusz Gajda, Security Consultamts, Clico

〰️ „Ship It Like a Pro: Automate Your Releases with GitHub Actions"
Aleksander Fidelus, Public Learning Developer, GitHub

💡 Details about Speakers & Talks💡

𝙏𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙯 𝙒𝙤𝙟𝙩𝙖𝙨
Trainer – CLICO’s custom trainings
IT Security Consultant
For 8 years associated with the IT industry, he has implemented projects in the field of network technologies, cybersecurity and LTE. He has performed tasks for small, medium and global companies both on the Polish market and abroad. He specializes in cloud technologies - especially in Amazon Web Services solutions.
As part of his daily duties, he consults on cybersecurity projects based on AWS, Azure, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7 and other solutions.
During his professional career, he dealt with:
• administration of computer networks based on Cisco, Juniper, Mikrotik solutions
• testing LTE network configurations – mainly tests of time synchronization functionality and configuration of intermediary devices
• projects related to cybersecurity – also Professional services
• pre- & post-sales support of Next-Gen Firewall Palo Alto Networks technology
• support of EDR and XDR solutions
• support of Vulnerability Management and DAST solutions
• support of CNAPP solutions and others for protecting cloud environments and CI/CD processes
• support of SOAR solutions and for automating the introduction of changes
• support of Threat Intelligence solutions
• support of pen-test automation solutions
• conducting security audits
• training and consulting based on specific solutions or tasks (red-teaming, blue-teaming)
• project management as Technical PM

𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙨𝙯 𝙂𝙖𝙟𝙙𝙖:
Authorized/Certified Trainer: Juniper Networks; additionally conducts unofficial trainings on Palo Alto Networks and Incident Response.
IT Security Consultant – Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks, Rapid7, Vectra AI.
Has been working in the IT industry for 5 years, with 5 years of experience in Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks, Rapid7, and Vectra AI.
Delivers projects involving the implementation of endpoint protection technologies, corporate training, technical support, and security solution testing.
Specializes in XDR, NDR, and NGFW technologies.
As part of daily responsibilities, conducts training sessions and provides technical support to clients.

Handled over 500 customer service requests as part of an authorized support center.
Conducted more than 50 security system tests in client environments across various technologies, including NGFW, SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, and NDR systems.
Delivered over 100 training days on the technologies he specializes in.

☞ will talk about:
Join us for an eye-opening session where we dive into the reality of cyberattacks targeting cloud environments.
With AWS being the largest cloud provider, it naturally attracts the most attention from threat actors — and we'll explore real-world attack examples to demonstrate this. You'll gain insight into the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by cybercriminals and learn how understanding their mindset can help you proactively defend your cloud infrastructure, detect malicious activity within your environment, and respond swiftly to incidents to meet compliance requirements.

We'll also walk through best practices for securing cloud-native applications across their entire lifecycle — from build and deployment to runtime. Finally, discover how Rapid7’s integrated solutions empower organizations to stay ahead of these threats and build resilient, secure cloud environments.

𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙠𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙪𝙨:
Aleksander Fidelus is a member of the GitHub’s Public Learning team, where he creates open source, hands-on, self-paced GitHub Skills exercises to teach developers everything and anything about Github. Alek loves to make his and other people's lives easier through automation.

☞ will talk about:
Discover how to automate release workflows using GitHub Actions. Learn what different open source tools can be used in or outside of GitHub to streamline documentation, versioning, and release management for any project.
We will compare two different release management tools and discuss why I recently made the switch from one to the other in all my projects.