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Evolutions in Security Monitoring

2021/10/6
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Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configuration mistakes, scaling security through monitoring, and security feedback loops in production.  

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**Topic 1 **- Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days.

Topic 2 -According to many reports, configuration mistakes tend to lead to the most security breaches. Who is typically making the mistakes? 

**Topic 3 **- Can you dig deeper on the dynamics between security on the one hand and developers and SRE engineers on the other hand?

**Topic 4 **- So what are some of the strategies and tactics for achieving optimum balance between these opposing interests?

**Topic 5 **- Should we think about platform (infra) security apart from workload (application) security?

**Topic 6 **- Can you talk to us about the differences between applying security to things that happen pre-production (e.g. CI/CD, software-supply chains) and things that happen in production?

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