DevSecOps Responsibilities: Automating Cloud Security and Incident Response at Comcast

A common solution to cloud security is the gatekeeper model. Old-school security teams think they can prevent breaches by locking down the network and having all requests funnel through a ticket system.

But this model often makes your cloud less secure: Solutions need to be implemented for each service and there is a lack of consistency. It also adds friction, so teams tend to skip it.

In this talk, Dharrie discusses creating a security framework for your enterprise. It takes principles of automation from DevOps and applies it to security. For example:

1. Creating cloud users through code so they all have the same password policy and access rules
2. Using serverless to monitor for misbehaving VMs