The Noise Problem in Security and Reliability

Guest: 

• Steve McGhee, Reliability Advocate at Google Cloud 

• Aron Eidelman, Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud

Topics:

• What is the shared problem for SRE and security when it comes to alerting?

• Why is there reluctance to reduce noise?

• How do SREs, security practitioners, and other stakeholders define “incident” and “risk”?

• How does involving an “adversary” change the way people think about an incident, even if the impact is identical?

• Which SRE alerting lessons do NOT apply at all for security?

Resources:

• Video (LinkedIn, YouTube)

• “Deploy Security Capabilities at Scale: SRE Explains How” (ep85)

• Steve talk about probability and SLO math at SLOconf  

• Why Focus on Symptoms, Not Causes?

• Learning from incidents (LFI) science

• How to measure anything in cyber security risk book

• Security chaos engineering book

• The SRS Book Ch 1

• The SRE book Ch 4