Transforming Mindsets Through Cloud Demonstrations

Guests:

• Jaffa Edwards, Senior Security Manager @ Google Cloud

• Lyka Segura, Cloud Security Engineer @ Google Cloud

Topics:

• Security transformation is hard, do you have any secret tricks or methods that actually make it happen?

• Can you share a story about a time when you helped a customer transform their cloud security posture? Not just improve, but actually transform!

• What is your process for understanding their needs and developing a security solution that is tailored to them? What to do if a customer does not want to share what is necessary or does not know themselves?

• What are some of the most common security mistakes that you see organizations make when they move to the cloud?

• What about the customers who insist on practicing in the cloud the same way they did on-premise? What do you tell the organizations that insist that "cloud is just somebody else's computer" and they insist on doing security the old-fashioned way?

• What advice would you give to organizations that are just starting out on their cloud security journey?

• What are the first three cloud security steps you recommend that work for a cloud environment they inherited?

References

• EP86 How to Apply Lessons from Virtualization Transition to Make Cloud Transformation Better

• For a successful cloud transformation, change your culture first

• Building security guardrails for developers with Google Cloud

• Google Cloud Consulting