CISCO X GBM Roundtable: Building Security Resilience in a Hybrid and Multi-cloud World
Leading enterprises are getting serious about adopting the public cloud at scale. Over the last several years, many companies have altered their IT strategies to shift an increasing share of their applications and data to public-cloud infrastructure and platforms.
However, using the public cloud disrupts traditional cybersecurity models that many companies have built up over the years. As a result, as companies make use of the public cloud, they need to evolve their cybersecurity practices dramatically to consume public-cloud services in a way that enables them both to protect critical data and to fully exploit the speed and agility that these services provide.
Join us on 6th March 2024 at The Ritz-Carlton, Doha to discover how you can leverage the following practices to develop a consistent, effective approach to public-cloud cybersecurity:
Agenda
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
|---|---|
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Welcome and Networking |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Introduction (Cisco and GBM Leadership) |
| 4:15 – 5:15 PM | Presentation – Potential Security Nightmares Waiting to Happen to Your Cloud Applications/services |
| 5:15 – 5:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 5:45 – 6:30 PM | Presentation – Operationalizing a full set of cybersecurity controls for hybrid and multi-clouds |
| 6:30 – 6:50 PM | Open Forum for Q&A |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner |
Speakers
Tim Szigeti
Tim is a Principal Engineer and leads technical marketing group for Outshift by Cisco. Outshift is Cisco’s Incubation engine, it drives emerging technologies, ideas, solutions, and leading Cisco into new markets. In this role Tim drives innovative technology solutions to solve top-of-mind business problems. Tim is involved in all phases of technology innovation, from ideation, to prototyping, to market validation, to iteration and maturing to ultimately transitioning the project to a business unit as a shipping product to drive mass adoption. In his 25 years with Cisco, Tim has been issued 39 patents, authored four Cisco Press books and an IETF standard (RFC 8325). Additionally, Tim has been inducted into Cisco’s Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame Elite, representing the Top 1 percent of Cisco speakers of all time.
Praveen Patnala
Praveen is a Co-Founder and VP of the engineering team who built the Cisco Multi-cloud Defense offering (Formerly Valtix). He built the Valtix Controller which is now Cisco Multi-cloud Defense Controller. Previously, he was a founding engineer at 2 other Silicon Valley search startups before joining Google Cloud.
“Use of Cloud-Native Technologies Will Be Pervasive, not Just Popular.”
“More than 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute their digital strategies without the use of cloud-native architectures and technologies.”
Gartner
Despite the benefits of public-cloud platforms, persistent concerns about cybersecurity for the public cloud have deterred companies from accelerating the migration of their workloads to the cloud. In our research on cloud adoption executives cited security as one of the top barriers to cloud migration, along with the complexity of managing change and the difficulty of making a compelling business case for cloud adoption.
In this session, we will highlight some potential Security Nightmares Waiting to Happen to Your Cloud Applications/services and options to Protect Your Business from Them.
Risks like:
- Exploitable APIs – [Detecting & Protecting Against API Exploits]
- Misconfigured Infrastructure – [Detecting Misconfigurations, Embedded Secrets and Exposed Data]
- Privilege Escalations – [Detecting Privilege Escalation Threats]
- Advanced Attack Paths – [Detecting Advanced Attack Paths]
- New Critical Vulnerabilities – [Detecting Software Vulnerabilities and Exposures]
If a developer can spin up a server in seconds but has to wait two weeks for the security team to sign off on the configuration, that attenuates the value of the public cloud’s agility. Companies need to make highly automated security services available to developers via APIs, just as they are doing for infrastructure services.
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