Cloud Native and Kubernetes Edinburgh November 2022

We're back for another security-themed event in November, and this time the meetup is sponsored by Octopus Deploy A massive thanks to them for making this one possible 🙌

Here's the agenda for the night:

6:00pm - Food and drink, courtesy of Octopus Deploy
6:30pm - Can't you keep a secret? Cloud-Native Secrets Management with OWASP WrongSecrets - Dan Gora, Lead Cloud Security Architect at Cloudreach
7:15pm - Break
7:30pm - A secure platform platform with Kubernetes - Tim Bannister, Scale Factory
8:15pm - Wrap up

· Can't you keep a secret? Cloud-Native Secrets Management with OWASP WrongSecrets (Dan Gora)

In this talk, Dan will dive into cloud secrets management best practices and show you all the things that can go terribly wrong with secrets management in the cloud through using OWASP WrongSecrets

Dan Gora is a Lead Cloud Security Architect at Cloudreach (An ATOS Company) specialising in Cloud-Native Security, DevSecOps and Application Security. Dan is also OWASP Frankfurt Chapter Lead and an avid Scottish munro-bagger.

· A secure platform platform with Kubernetes (Tim Bannister)

The top security risk for Kubernetes clusters is misconfiguration. With many different extension points, Kubernetes is flexible enough to let you build a platform for many different use cases. In this talk, Tim Bannister from The Scale Factory explains some of the ways you can extend your cluster and what to watch out for when you do.

Tim is a consultant at The Scale Factory. He contributes to the Kubernetes project, primarily as a technical lead to the documentation SIG, and is also an editor for the official Kubernetes blog. As a consultant, he works with SaaS businesses from around the world, helping them use the AWS cloud effectively.