KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

From Silicon to Service: Ensuring Confidentiality in Serverless GPU Cloud Functions - Zvonko Kaiser, NVIDIA

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, concerns about data privacy and infrastructure security are increasing. This session will focus on confidential cloud functions, including serverless environments and GPU-accelerated workloads, to ensure the security of your code and data within the cloud infrastructure. We will explore technologies such as hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and confidential computing. In addition, we will cover hardware and software attestation to guarantee integrity from the silicon level upwards, complete stack attestation for end-to-end trust, and supply chain security to trace and verify all application components. Participants will learn practical steps to implement confidential serverless functions, utilizing GPUs for high-performance computing while ensuring data integrity and privacy. Join us to discover how to innovate securely, build your own secure cloud functions infrastructure, and enhance your cloud security posture.

Speakers

Zvonko Kaiser

Principal Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Zvonko is a Principal Systems Engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Cloud Native Technologies team. Focusing right now on all things related to confidential computing, especially in the context of accelerators.

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Advanced

11:55am MST

What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeAmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

In the CNCF landscape we have plenty of ebpf based security solutions that help us protect our k8s cluster from runtime vulnerabilities. On paper though Falco, Tetragon and KubeArmor look very similar. Eventually you have to make a choice on which one best fits your needs. To give you additional insights to make your decision join this session. We have run extensive benchmarks against those three solutions and will answer the following questions that came out of our testing: - What are the different featuresets? - What about the performance impact of each agent? - Which privileges does each solution need? - What are the pros and cons across the three options?

Speakers

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace

Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, the leading Observability platform. Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm MST

From Standards to Practice: The Journey to Container Maturity - Carmen Chow & Thomas Robinson, Yelp

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Yelp runs tens of thousands of Docker containers in Kubernetes. How do we track their vulnerabilities, baseline their security needs, and prioritize our most critical findings? Security standards change constantly, so we need a robust model of container maturity to guide our adoption of these standards in a way that addresses Yelp’s specific needs and risk tolerance. Finally, to maximize our model’s value, over 1,000 engineers must understand its practical guidance well enough to apply it to their daily work. This talk covers designing and incorporating a container maturity model into Yelp’s development lifecycle, along with our strategy for proactively improving our security posture. We believe our experiences will assist others in creating similar models that work for their organizations, help evaluate and assess risks to their own containers, and drive next steps towards future risk evaluation platforms.

Speakers

Carmen Chow

Software Engineer, Yelp

Carmen Chow is a Software Engineer on Yelp’s Infrastructure Security team, where she has worked on cost modeling, data lifecycle tools, and Kubernetes observability. Previously, she was an infrastructure developer responsible for containerizing services and migrating them to Kubernetes... Read More →

Thomas Robinson

Software Engineer, Yelp

Tom is a software engineer living near Seattle, Washington. Having previously worked in security research and antivirus software, he's spent the last decade helping keep Yelp secure.

Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:25pm MST

It's Dangerous to Build It Alone, Take This. - Jeremy Rickard & Ashna Mehrotra, Microsoft

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

You've got high and critical CVEs in open source software packages that are critical to your platform or business. Time is almost up to patch them, and the upstream project hasn't fixed things. If you don't patch, your accreditation might be at risk. You're going to have to do it yourself! But where do you start? Fork the projects? Can you just patch in place? In this session, you'll learn about tools and strategies that can help you respond to CVEs in your container images faster, starting with patching existing images in place with Copacetic and moving on to patching and building projects from scratch. We'll look at challenges to building and testing upstream projects using existing tools and learn from emerging practices in industry. We'll also talk about how to inform your teams to stop using bad images! After this session, you'll have best practices and tools at your disposal, understand some of the pitfalls of owning your entire open source software supply chain.

Speakers

Ashna Mehrotra

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Ashna Mehrotra is a software engineer on the Upstream Security team, working on cloud-native open source security projects at Microsoft.

Jeremy Rickard

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Jeremy Rickard is a principal software engineer at Microsoft where he works on the Azure Container Upstream team. He is currently a co-chair for SIG Release and serves on both the CNCF and the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committees. He was also the Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead.

Thursday November 14, 2024 3:25pm - 4:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Any

4:30pm MST

Mish-Mesh: Abusing the Service Mesh to Compromise Kubernetes Environments - Hillai Ben-Sasson & Nir Ohfeld, Wiz

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Service mesh solutions are common components in almost every large Kubernetes environment. Many engineers and security teams have adopted solutions like Linkerd and Istio to better segment and isolate their Kubernetes networks. In this talk, we will demonstrate how we were able to exploit common misconfigurations and insecure features in popular service mesh solutions, to escalate low-severity vulnerabilities to critical service takeovers. Our real-life examples include several major cloud service providers, where these vulnerabilities allowed us to gain unauthorized access to internal systems and sensitive secrets. This talk will help engineers understand whether their service mesh deployment acts as a proper security barrier, and how to make sure that it does. Security teams – both attackers and defenders – will learn new techniques for hacking Kubernetes environments, and how to properly defend against them.

Speakers

Hillai Ben-Sasson

Nir Ohfeld

Security Researcher, Wiz

Nir Ohfeld is a 25-years-old senior security researcher at Wiz. Ohfeld focuses on cloud-related security research and specializes in research and exploitation of cloud service providers, web applications, application security, and in finding vulnerabilities in complex high-level systems... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:25pm MST

Multi-Tier Security in WasmCloud: From Developer Constraints to Platform Extensibility - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

In 2024, 96% of codebases contain open source, and 74% of these have high-risk vulnerabilities — a 54% increase from 2023. As open source adoption grows and the cloud native landscape evolves, robust security practices are critical. This session explores wasmCloud, a CNCF platform for distributed WebAssembly applications, focusing on achieving a secure-by-default environment. wasmCloud's multi-tier security model addresses the needs of both developers and platform engineers. Developers work in a deny-by-default mode, requiring explicit declaration of all application capabilities. Platform engineers grant these capabilities in a fine-grained manner and extend security through pluggable services. Grounded in real-world experience and practical demos, you’ll leave this talk with the knowledge to configure and extend security using pluggable services, enabling you to leverage WebAssembly to secure your cloud native applications.

Speakers

Brooks Townsend

Senior Software Engineer II, Cosmonic

Brooks is a Lead Software Engineer at Cosmonic, focusing on harnessing WebAssembly to alleviate the pains of modern software development. Brooks started his software development career with Critical Stack, a Kubernetes container orchestration platform that is now open source. He joined... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 5:25pm - 6:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

Security

Content Experience Level Beginner