EP33 Cloud Migrations: Security Perspectives from The Field

Guest:

• Elliott Abraham, Security and Compliance Specialist @ Google Cloud

Topics:

• We talk about lift and shift vs cloud native, what are these and are they fair characterizations?
• Is lift and shift always negative? Does it always harm security?
• Are security planning needs different between them?
• What are the fundamentals with security during cloud migration that you have to get right regardless?
• What’s your advice to a security team to help make a migration work well?
• How do you account for threat model differences in the cloud? Are cloud threats being more different or more the same to the classic ones?

Resources:

• “Google Cloud security foundations guide”
• "The Phoenix Project" book
• "Threat Models and Cloud Security" (ep12)
• "Preparing for Cloud Migrations from a CISO Perspective"  Part 1 (ep5) and Part2 (ep11)