Name: From Zero to CK(A)(S) Hero: Insider Tips and K8s Certification Exam Strategies with CNCF Ambassador Saiyam Pathak
Start: 2024-10-10T11:06:00Z
End: 2024-10-10T11:06:52.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

In the cloud, every second counts. Attacks move at warp speed, and security teams must protect the business without slowing it down. Sysdig stops cloud attacks in real time, instantly detecting changes in risk with runtime insights, a unique AI architecture, and open source Falco. Sysdig delivers live visibility by correlating signals across cloud workloads, identities, and services to uncover hidden attack paths. By knowing what is running, teams can prioritize the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, permissions, and threats that matter most. From prevention to defense, Sysdig helps enterprises move faster and focus on what matters: innovation.

Sysdig. Secure Every Second.

Kubernetes pros, this one’s for you! In this Kubernetes Tech Talk Series session, we’re digging deeper into why K8s and containers are the backbone of secure, resilient cloud environments. Hosted by Ron Eddings from Hacker Valley Media, this session starts with a quick introduction to the basics of K8s and containers and Kubernetes's critical role in cloud-native security. 

Discover how they enable scalable, flexible, and automated defenses against today’s sophisticated threats with real-world examples and insights on containerized application protection. This is your chance to see why Kubernetes and containers are not just orchestration tools but essential allies in modern cloud security.

What You’ll Learn:
  -  What Kubernetes is and its essential features
  -  How Kubernetes integrates into CWPP to protect workloads
  -  Security strategies for containerized applications
  -  Real-world examples of Kubernetes automating threat defenses
  -  Key insights from threat research to stay ahead of evolving risks

Whether you’re just starting or looking to expand your expertise, this K8s Tech Talk Series offers actionable insights and practical strategies to make Kubernetes your cloud’s strongest security ally.

The K8s Lowdown: Why Kubernetes is Your Cloud’s Best Friend

Beneath the surface of the digital landscape, a growing threat is hiding in plain sight. In this revealing session, the Sysdig Threat Research Team will unmask the insidious world of ELF malware and its role in powering DDoS-as-a-Service botnets. Sysdig Threat Detection Engineer Alessandra Rizzo will take you through the inner workings of the "Rebirth" botnet, a Mirai variant exploiting vulnerabilities in cloud environments and beyond. Discover how these threats evolve, the tactics attackers use to avoid detection, and the steps you can take to protect your systems. Join us as we unveil the hidden dangers and provide actionable insights to strengthen your defenses.

Under the Mask: Unveiling ELF Malware and DDoS-as-a-Service

Cloud has changed the way we develop, deploy, and scale apps. Traditional perimeter and end-point security does not address the distributed and ephemeral nature of cloud and has huge blind spots for adversaries to go undetected. Active cloud risk is the most imminent threat security teams need to address. Even purpose-built Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools, relying on point-in-time assessments, need to catch up in detecting and mitigating these active risks.

This SANS Spring 2024 CyberFest keynote addresses the distinction between static and active cloud risks, common tactics used in cloud attacks, and the new 5/5/5 framework that sets a new standard in detecting, prioritizing, and responding to active cloud risks and threats. Watch it for a live discussion and real-life examples from our experts from Sysdig and Amazon.

Active Cloud Risk. How to Combat the Most Critical Threats

Organizations modernizing applications in the cloud find themselves drowning in vulnerabilities and security alerts. With too much noise and not enough time, teams need a better way to prioritize and address real risks to stay ahead of threats.

Join Sysdig for a discussion of how to boost your software supply chain security and address risk from development through production.

In this session we’ll cover:

-The latest cloud-native security risks and challenges

-How to better prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

-Using runtime signals to reduce AppSec noise up to 95%

-Detecting active cloud risk to protect against cyberattacks

-Improving outcomes with AppSec tools like Snyk, Checkmarx, and Docker

Fix What Matters First: Bridging Code and Cloud Security

Kubernetes certifications, including CKA, CKAD, and CKS, are among the most challenging exams to pass.  Becoming a CK(A)(S) certified hero demonstrates a deep understanding of Kubernetes' best practices, from deployment to security, ensuring your organization can build and maintain secure, scalable K8s and container applications.

In this session, CNCF Fellow Saiyam Pathak shares insider strategies, tips, and preparation techniques to help you ace these certification exams.  Learn what it takes to crack these exams, from exam preparation and study resources to tackling the most challenging questions. Discover the essential tools and techniques to secure your Kubernetes journey and gain the confidence to ace these certifications.

What You Will Learn:
An Overview of the CK(A)(S) Exams, including the newly updated question areas
Real-World Exam Experiences
Effective Exam Preparation Strategies
Essential Study Resources
Approaches to Tackling Challenging Questions

From Zero to CK(A)(S) Hero: Insider Tips & K8s Certification Exam Strategies - Live Q&A - CNCF Ambassador Saiyam Pathak

KEYNOTE FROM SANS FALL 2024 CYBERFEST:

It's just after after Halloween. However, cybersecurity has spooky threats every day or all year. 

Join us for a spooktacular journey into the haunted world of cloud security! Cybersecurity Influencer Graham Cluley and Sysdig Cybersecurity Strategist Crystal Morin will help you shine a light on the eerie shadows where cyber threats hide, revealing the secrets to detecting and banishing them from your cloud environment.

Prepare yourself for a thrilling session filled with chilling tales and crucial insights as we explore:
   ** Importance of Threat Hunting: Discover why hunting down these digital ghouls is essential to prevent them from causing nightmares.
  ** Threat Intelligence: Learn how to use threat intelligence as your ghost-hunting guide, uncovering their tactics before they strike your environment.
  ** Top Threats: Hear about the most menacing threats of 2024 and how to spot their spooky behavior and things that go bump in the night. 

Join us for a fun, engaging, and slightly spine-tingling session as we unmask the ghosts in your machines and show you how to keep your environment safe from these lurking spirits. With expert guidance from Graham Cluley and Crystal Morin, you'll be well-prepared with strategies to banish the ghosts keeping you up at night.

Ghosts in the Machine: Detecting Threats in Your Cloud

As cloud technology adoption continues to grow, organizations are faced with both exciting opportunities and complex security challenges. The agility of cloud-native environments has opened the door to advanced threats that are increasingly difficult to detect. But how can AI be leveraged to stay ahead of these evolving risks?

In this interactive session, Graham Cluley, podcaster, and independent cybersecurity analyst and Emanuela Zaccone , Staff Product Manager, Sysdig, will dive into the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. While AI has the potential to significantly enhance security efforts, it also introduces new risks and considerations. AI alone is not a magic solution — it requires human oversight, thoughtful implementation, and collaboration between security and development teams to succeed.

Discussion points
- How are bad actors leveraging AI?
- AI deepfakes and AI-enhanced ransomware attacks
- How to leverage AI to help in combating cloud security threats

Ai Hijacked This Webinar

In an era where containerized applications are becoming the norm, ensuring the security of Kubernetes environments is more critical than ever. This hands-on webinar, “OWASP Top 10 Training for Kubernetes,” offers an in-depth exploration of how to effectively implement the OWASP Top 10 security controls within Kubernetes.

Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the most pressing security risks identified by OWASP and how these apply specifically to Kubernetes ecosystems. Through a mix of theoretical insights and practical demonstrations, attendees will learn to identify vulnerabilities, enforce best practices, and utilize security tools tailored for Kubernetes environments.

Key topics will include risk assessment, configuration management, access control, and network security measures, all contextualized within the framework of the OWASP Top 10. This interactive session encourages participant engagement, with live demonstrations and case studies illustrating the application of these controls in real-world scenarios.

Whether you are a developer, DevOps engineer, or security professional, this session will enhance your skill set and equip you with actionable strategies to safeguard your applications against the most critical threats. Join us to strengthen your Kubernetes security posture and ensure your deployments are resilient against evolving security challenges!

OWASP Top 10: Control Measures for Kubernetes Security

On October 17th, NIS2 will officially reshape compliance and reporting for the cybersecurity landscape. Watch this interactive discussion about NIS2’s profound impact on companies operating in and out of the EU. 

Whether you're a CISO, CFO, CLO, or security professional, this event will equip you with the knowledge and strategies necessary to ensure your organization thrives in the rapidly evolving regulatory environment.

What you'll learn from our Second Session in our Sysdig LIVE series:
* Company preparedness and what you need to know
* The nuances across member states and the intersection of NIS2 with other key regulations like GDPR, SEC, and DORA
* Real-world risks for non-compliance
* Practical steps as you navigate the best path forward

NIS2 Countdown: What Security Leaders Need to Know

In today’s rapidly shifting cybersecurity landscape, the rise of open-source software (OSS) tools has dramatically altered cyber adversaries' tactics. Understanding how attackers leverage these tools and how you can use them to improve your organization’s security posture is crucial for building effective defense strategies.

Join Sysdig's Cybersecurity Strategist, Crystal Morin, and Alessandro Rizzo from the Sysdig Threat Research team for an insightful fireside chat. We will explore the sophisticated use of OSS tools in modern cyberattacks and gain a deeper understanding of how threat actors are reshaping their strategies and increasing the scale of their operations through OSS technologies.

Key topics include:
The Evolution of Cyber Threats: Discover how cybercriminals are shifting from traditional attack methods to more advanced, scalable tactics with OSS tools.
Inside the Attacker’s Toolkit: Explore the most popular OSS tools used by cyber adversaries today and how they exploit vulnerabilities in their targets.
Case Studies and Real-World Examples: Analyze incidents like the CRYSTALRAY and PURPLEURCHIN attacks to understand how OSS tools are critical in high-profile cyberattacks.

Defensive Strategies: Learn about cutting-edge OSS tools and techniques for detecting, preventing, and responding to threats in an environment where attackers increasingly rely on OSS tools.

This fireside chat is ideal for cybersecurity professionals seeking to understand the evolving threat landscape or those curious about the role of OSS in modern cyberattacks. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the game and enhance your defense strategies against ever-evolving threats.

The Evolution of Cyber Threats: How Open Source Tools Are Changing the Game for Better and Worse

The cloud is fast, complex, and dynamic. Advanced threat actors readily leverage cloud capabilities and automation to accelerate attacks. To stay ahead of adversaries, security operations teams must be able to detect and respond to cloud threats faster than ever.

Check out this webinar to discover how to protect your organization against modern threats with real-time detection, full-context investigation, and automated response, including:
- How to gain in-depth visibility into cloud service and workload threats in real-time
- How real-time CDR and a unified SIEM/SOAR platform accelerate incident response
- How Sysdig and Google collaborate to provide critical cloud defense at scale

Defend at Cloud Speed: Automating Detection and Response with Sysdig and Google SecOps

Within a single cluster, various apps, languages, and origins converge, often shrouded in mystery. But you don't need to fear the unknown. This session will focus on securing complex and diverse cloud environments that host many different applications from multiple sources, making them challenging to manage and secure.

Join us where Bruno da Silva, Senior Solutions Engineer Sysdig and expert in container security, will guide you through these complexities within clusters. The session will cover critical security practices, such as:
1. Combating drift: Ensuring systems and applications remain consistent with their intended configurations and don't deviate over time. 
2. Warding off malware: Protecting the system from malicious software.
3. Halting breaches: Responding swiftly to security breaches to prevent further damage.

Whether it's combating drift, warding off malware, or swiftly halting breaches, discover how to secure the Multiverse and steer towards the path of optimal remediation.

Navigating the Multiverse: Crafting Effective Remediation Strategies for Diverse Application Ecosystems

Imagine having an AI cloud security analyst capable of multi-step reasoning helping you to understand cloud threats better, make faster decisions, and stop attacks in their tracks.

Now, with Sysdig Sage™, it’s a reality.  

Until now, AI security assistants have only been capable of providing basic responses to queries. This is insufficient for understanding cloud attacks. 

Join us for a tour of Sysdig Sage™, where you will see its powerful and unique capabilities in action, including:
  -  Multi-step reasoning: In-depth conversation is needed to understand runtime events clearly.
  -  Contextual awareness: responses based on what you observe in the UI. 
  -  Guided response: proactive response actions, prevention strategies, and process improvements.

AI-Powered CDR in Action: A Technical Tour of Sysdig Sage™

As cloud-native environments evolve, robust and timely security measures become imperative. You only have a few minutes to find and address active risk to protect against exploits. Tools alone are not enough. You must also adopt new skills and mindsets about security. The 5/5/5 Benchmark sets a new standard for cloud security agility, aligned with the current pace of cloud‑native growth. Join AWS and Sysdig for a discussion of how to equip your teams with speed, agility, and automation to achieve faster cloud and container threat detection and response.

Secure Containers at Cloud Speed with Sysdig and AWS

In today's cloud security landscape, Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) plays a pivotal role in safeguarding enterprise environments against sophisticated cyber threats. Interestingly, the classic game "Guess Who?" offers a surprisingly apt metaphor for understanding the principles and processes underpinning CDR. "Guess Who?" involves players deducing their opponent's chosen character through a series of yes-or-no questions, systematically narrowing down possibilities based on observable characteristics. Similarly, CDR involves identifying and responding to security threats by continuously monitoring cloud environments, analyzing data in real-time, and employing investigative techniques to filter out benign activities from potential security incidents. Both rely on a process of elimination, pattern recognition, and strategic questioning to reach a conclusive identification. 

In this session, we walk through what a game of “Guess Who?” would look like in the cloud. We highlight how real-time detection, strategic investigation, and data-driven decision-making are critical for security operation teams to assess and respond to cloud threats at cloud speed.  

(Replay from Black Hat USA 2024)

"Guess Who?" The Cloud Detection and Response Board Game

AI has sparked imagination and innovation in the business world. AWS solutions like Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock are helping organizations of all sizes build generative AI applications that deliver new customer and employee experiences. At the same time, AI represents a new frontier for risk as bad actors exploit the same technology to automate and accelerate cloud attacks. Enterprises must find ways to protect their AI implementations and leverage the power of AI to augment defense.

Join us to discuss how generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the cloud security landscape. We’ll explore how to secure your AI deployments to safeguard sensitive information and delve into the state-of-the-art for employing AI to boost the effectiveness of your cloud security teams in the face of evolving threats.

- Implementing AI workload protection to identify and manage active AI risk
- Keeping up with emerging AI governance and compliance regulations
- Harnessing AI to empower teams and accelerate response to cloud threats

Take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to turn the tide in the battle of AI for good versus evil in cloud security.

Good vs. Evil: Cloud Security in the Age of Generative AI

When cloud attacks happen at lightning speed, security teams have only minutes to react. Evolving threats and threat actors challenge even seasoned professionals, but the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work. 

In this webinar, Sysdig founder and CTO Loris Degioanni will discuss how AI-driven technology is changing the industry and helping security teams better understand threats and stop known and unknown attacks in motion with capabilities like: 
  -  Multi-step reasoning 
  -  Contextual awareness
  -  Guided response

Experience Sysdig Sage in action as Loris gives a simu-live demo and answers your burning AI-related questions directly.

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K8s Tech Talk: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Security

Kubernetes certifications, including CKA, CKAD, and CKS, are among the most challenging exams to pass.  Becoming a CK(A)(S) certified hero demonstrates a deep understanding of Kubernetes' best practices, from deployment to security, ensuring your organization can build and maintain secure, scalable K8s and container applications.

In this session, CNCF Fellow Saiyam Pathak shares insider strategies, tips, and preparation techniques to help you ace these certification exams.  Learn what it takes to crack these exams, from exam preparation and study resources to tackling the most challenging questions. Discover the essential tools and techniques to secure your Kubernetes journey and gain the confidence to ace these certifications.

What You Will Learn:
**An Overview of the CK(A)(S) Exams, including the newly updated question areas
**Real-World Exam Experiences
**Effective Exam Preparation Strategies
**Essential Study Resources
**Approaches to Tackling Challenging Questions

From Zero to CK(A)(S) Hero: Insider Tips and K8s Certification Exam Strategies with CNCF Ambassador Saiyam Pathak

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