EP166 Workload Identity, Zero Trust and SPIFFE (Also Turtles!)
Description
Guests:
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Evan Gilman, co-founder CEO of Spirl
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Eli Nesterov, co-founder CTO of Spril
Topics:
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Today we have IAM, zero trust and security made easy. With that intro, could you give us the 30 second version of what a workload identity is and why people need them?
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What’s so spiffy about SPIFFE anyway?
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What’s different between this and micro segmentation of your network–why is one better or worse?
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You call your book “solving the bottom turtle” could you tell us what that means?
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What are the challenges you’re seeing large organizations run into when adopting this approach at scale?
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Of all the things a CISO could prioritize, why should this one get added to the list? What makes this, which is so core to our internal security model–ripe for the outside world?
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How people do it now, what gets thrown away when you deploy SPIFFE? Are there alternative?
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SPIFFE is interesting, yet can a startup really “solve for the bottom turtle”?
Resources:
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“Solving the Bottom Turtle” book [PDF, free]
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“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” book [also, one of Anton’s faves for years!]
- Workload Identity Federation in GCP
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