What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger: The Vulnerabilities Th... Dor Serero & Michael Katchinskiy

Presenters Dor Serero Michael Katchinskiy Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Kubernetes Security: Beyond the CVEs, Mastering the Boundaries 🛡️ Kubernetes. It’s the engine powering so much of our modern cloud-native world. But with great power comes great responsibility, and let’s be honest, security can feel like a labyrinth. This presentation dives deep into the heart of Kubernetes vulnerabilities, not to get lost in the weeds of every single exploit, but to extract the real lessons and equip us with the proactive controls to build truly resilient environments. The core message is clear: we’re seeing a recurring pattern of vulnerabilities, and by understanding these patterns and fortifying our boundaries, we can get ahead of the game. ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min

Who Let the Agents Out? Securing AI Workflows the Right Way - Mariusz Sabath & Maia Iyer

Presenters Mariusz Sabath Maia Iyer Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Agent Security Unleashed: Building Trustworthy AI with a Zero Trust Approach 🚀 The modern developer’s life is a juggling act. Between managing code on GitHub, collaborating on Slack, and countless other tools, the quest for efficiency is constant. Enter agentic applications – the promise of automating those repetitive tasks and offering a single, powerful interface to control your entire digital ecosystem. Sounds amazing, right? While setting up local agents with API keys is relatively straightforward, taking these intelligent assistants to the cloud unlocks a whole new world of security challenges. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min

Containing Wildfires in a Sprawling Multi-Cluster Network... Anmol Krishan Sachdeva & Paras Mamgain

Presenters Anmol Krishan Sachdeva Paras Mamgain Source CiliumCon NA 2025 Building a Digital Fortress: Your Network’s Immune System for Multi-Cluster Meshes 🛡️ In today’s hyper-connected digital world, especially within complex multi-cluster mesh environments, a single compromised pod can quickly escalate from a minor hiccup to a full-blown crisis. Traditional security approaches, often playing catch-up with human intervention, are simply no match for the lightning-fast execution of modern cyberattacks. But what if our networks could defend themselves, proactively and autonomously? That’s the exciting vision Anmol Krishan Sachdeva painted, advocating for the creation of a network immune system. ...

November 24, 2025 · 4 min

It's Not a Best Practice If No One Can Follow It: Learning From... Alex Zenla, Edera & John Morello

Presenters Alex Zenla John Morello Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Embracing the Future: Making Container Security Effortless and Effective 🚀 Remember the days when containers and Kubernetes felt like cutting-edge wizardry? Well, that era has rapidly transformed into our everyday reality. What was once revolutionary is now commonplace, yet the quest for truly secure containerized environments is far from over. This session dives deep into the fascinating evolution of container security, exploring the bumps we’ve hit and charting a course toward solutions that are not just powerful, but genuinely usable. ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min

Lightning Talk: Federate, Scale, and Secure: Practical SPIFFE/SPIRE for Containers... Anjali Telang

Presenters Anjali Telang Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 🚀 Revolutionizing Workload Identity: Your Guide to Production-Ready SPIFFE and SPIRE In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native computing, securing what your applications are is just as critical as securing where they are. Gone are the days when network perimeters were enough. Today, workloads, just like users, need verifiable identities. Enter SPIFFE and SPIRE, two CNCF-graduated projects that are set to become the bedrock of your zero-trust strategy. Anjali Tang, a Product Manager for OpenShift specializing in identity and access control, recently shared her deep dive into making these powerful tools production-ready, and we’re here to break it down for you! ✨ ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min