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How Hearst Eliminates DevOps Complexity -- An Architecture Review

In this talk, Jim Mortko (responsible for leading all Internet-based engineering and digital production efforts) and DevOps Engineer Manuel

How Betterment Secures Server Access - Automate the Boring Stuff

Chris Becker is an SRE at Betterment. Previously, he did similar work on Warby Parker's Infrastructure team. At Betterment, he earned the label APT

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Why Fair Eliminated Static Credentials -- A Retrospective

Cat Cai is currently the Director of Platform Engineering at Fair. In this talk, alongside Jack Wink and Marshall Brekka, they discuss how Fair eliminated static credentials through automation and tooling decisions. Listen as they walk through how they make sure they enforce least privileged access, and rotate credentials without causing a huge headache in the organization.

DevSecOps Conference Highlights | Speakers from Splunk, Betterment, Fair, ASICS

Check out all speaker highlights from DevSecOps 2019!

How Splunk Built A Practical Approach to DevSecOps At Scale

Joel Fulton is the Chief Information Security Officer for Splunk. At Splunk, they've put effort into transforming their organization from a waterfall approach to agile, to now a DevSecOps approach.

Alternatives to Teleport

Gravitational Teleport is a powerful tool allowing organizations to secure access to SSH servers and Kubernetes clusters via a centralized authentication method. However, if you need to secure access to databases, Windows servers or internal web applications in addition to Linux servers/Kubernetes, there are other options to consider.

SOC 2 Terminology Glossary

SOC 2 compliance, like so many things related to IT and security, is chock full of terms and acronyms to learn. If you are just getting started with SOC 2, it’s helpful to get familiar with this alphabet soup ahead of time so you can move your compliance efforts forward with confidence. Below is a SOC 2 terminology glossary to get you started:

Security Incident Response Policy (SIRP) Explained

This article will point you to the core concepts within a security incident response policy (SIRP) so that you understand the purpose of this policy, challenges, and tools to consider when writing your own.

Token Security Podcast | Senior Engineering Director at Zymergen on Code Reviews

At Token Security our goal is to teach the core curriculum for modern DevSecOps. Each week we will deep dive with an expert so you walk away with practical advice to apply to your team today. No fluff, no buzzwords. This week Jeff Burkhart, Senior Engineering Director at Zymergen talks code reviews, code review fatigue, and what to do when agile becomes tedious.

How To Prepare For Your First SOC 2 Audit A 30-90-120 Day Plan

Despite thousands of articles, there’s shockingly little actionable advice to help startups complete SOC 2. One area that usually requires some remediation is access controls. Most teams don’t have answers when auditors ask “who has access to a specific database or server and what queries did they execute?” That’s why we started strongDM- to manage and monitor access to every database, server, & environment.

How to SSH Through Bastion With Key | Part 2 - Tutorial

How to create an SSH key for your bastion host and ways you can streamline the bastion host login process without compromising the security of the key.

How to Create a Bastion Host | Part 1 of a Step-by-step Tutorial

Step-by-step instructions on how to create a bastion host plus how to create an audit trail by logging SSH commands.

Daniel Leslie Director of Security Intelligence & IT Operations at Namely on the Human Side of Security

This week we are joined by Daniel Leslie at Namely who shares his take on the human side of security, and what security at scale looks like for his team. Max, Justin, and Daniel discuss the 3 core things to good company-wide security: psychological safety, vulnerability, and purpose. You have to address these things in a comprehensive manner.

Token Security Podcast | Alan Daines Chief Information Security Officer at FactSet on Phishing

In this episode Max Saltonstall and Justin McCarthy are joined by Alan Daines, Chief Information Security Officer at FactSet to talk about phishing, educating on it, and defending against it.

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