Nov 25, 2024
Guest:
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Michael Czapinski, Security & Reliability Enthusiast, Google
Topics:
- “How Google protects its production services” paper covers how Google's infrastructure balances several crucial aspects, including security, reliability, development speed, and maintainability. How do you prioritize these competing demands in a real-world setting?
- What attack vectors do you consider most critical in the production environment, and how has Google’s defenses against these vectors improved over time?
- Can you elaborate on the concept of Foundational services and their significance in Google's security posture?
- How does your security approach adapt to this vast spectrum of sensitivity and purpose of our servers and services, actually?
- How do you implement this principle of zero touch prod for both human and service accounts within our complex infrastructure?
- Can you talk us through the broader approach you take through Workload Security Rings and how this helps?
Resources:
- “How Google protects its production services” paper (deep!)
- SLSA framework
- EP189 How Google Does Security Programs at Scale: CISO Insights
- EP109 How Google Does Vulnerability Management: The Not So Secret Secrets!
- EP176 Google on Google Cloud: How Google Secures Its Own Cloud Use
- EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil
- SREcon presentation on zero touch prod.
- The SRS book (free access)