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Talk Intro: Contextual Endpoint Firewall
While one should use techniques already available (eg secure repo proxies), I believe protection needs to extend to runtime networking as well. Imagine policies that could be enforced based on:
- Workload / user identity
- Runs on your laptop / computer cluster nodes and also inspects containerized traffic
- Process lineage of a network request (eg is this downstream of invocations of npm, pip, AI agents)
- L7 visibility (ie not just that a connection is made to api.github.com, but specifically to a location outside one's org, which we've seen being a way exfil threats get around common L4-only firewalls)
This would block recent shai hulud / miasma attacks at runtime using sane default policies.
About the Speaker:
Chase Douglas has focused his career on helping teams build and understand their systems. His past work includes: architecting the first browser observability solution (New Relic Browser), developing novel runtime fingerprinting tech to detect SQL and XSS injection attacks (IMMUNIO, now part of Trend Micro), and founding the cloud Infra-as-Code DevEx company Stackery (now AWS Infrastructure Composer).
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