Eliminating Security Risks in Kubernetes with Chris Porter

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.

b'Chris Porter is the director of solutions engineering at StackRox, makers of the industry\\u2019s first Kubernetes-native container security platform. Previously, Chris worked as the director of field sales engineers at Bracket Computing, a technical solutions architect and senior manager of systems engineering at Cisco, and a software engineer at VA Software, iBeam Broadcasting, and Silicon Graphics, among other positions. He is also an author and a certified AWS solutions architect and security specialist.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Chris as they talk about bringing security to Kubernetes while touching upon how nobody really manages application security\\u2014they just pretend to; why security needs to think the same way as microservices; how a lot of people end up using the container model incorrectly by thinking they\\u2019re the same as VMs; what billing and security have in common; why security needs to be baked into the foundation vs. treated as an afterthought; why you should aim for incremental security improvements; what Chris thinks the business value of Kubernetes is; why Chris doesn\\u2019t think moving applications to containers automatically makes them more secure, and more.'