Natalie
Godec
Senior Cloud Architect at Zencore
"Secure By Design: Architecting your cloud and AI workloads from the perspective of infosec"
"Secure By Design: Architecting your cloud and AI workloads from the perspective of infosec"
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Session: Secure By Design: Architecting your cloud and AI workloads from the perspective of infosec
So you've vibe-coded your Super Smart AI Agentic App and are ready to set it free on the Internet. You are sure it will do well, it solves this amazing use-case, with such clever technology! You pick your favourite cloud provider, decide on a runtime - perhaps, Kubernetes or Cloud Run - buy a domain, ask Gemini to wire up a deployment pipeline. Happy days!But here's the thing. You can't vibe-code security. Every single thing you deploy to the cloud needs to be secured. And it's a hard task! Even for cybersecurity professionals.
But fret not. Cloud providers, such as Google Cloud, have already put in the work to make your job easier. And in this talk, you will learn the fundamentals of securing your workloads, (almost) end-to-end.
Key Takeaways
- You must design your systems with security in mind - otherwise the price to pay will be high.
- Everyone's favourite tech - k8s, Postgres, cloud services - is, in fact, very easy to protect. Here you will learn about the tools to do so.
- You don't need to lock down your infrastructure - a lot of tools give you an option to apply security guardrails in dry run mode.
- Visibility is key! Having continuous monitoring of your systems, and giving this information to developers, opens your path to better security.
Bio
Natalie is a Systems/infra engineer turned cloud architect, with a soft spot for data platforms and security. GDE (Google Dev Expert) in Cloud, Women TechMakers Ambassador and an experienced tech speaker. Outside of tech, she enjoys traveling, fashion and a good espresso martini.