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Cloud Security Podcast by Google

EP132 Chaos Engineering for Security: How to Improve Software Resilience with Kelly Shortridge

Jul 31, 2023
Kelly Shortridge, Senior Principal Engineer at Fastly, discusses the concept of Security Chaos Engineering and its intersection with cloud security. She talks about how chaos engineering can improve software resilience and security alerting. Kelly shares her favorite chaos engineering experiment and how it can break organizations out of their 1990s thinking. The podcast also explores the importance of understanding threat models, iterative approaches to software resilience, and learning from failures.
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  • Security chaos engineering promotes software resilience and adaptive security strategies.
  • Implementing software resilience involves iterative development, validation of assumptions, and continuous learning.

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Software Resilience and the Principles of Chaos Engineering

Software resilience and the principles of chaos engineering form the foundation for a more modern and effective approach to security. Security chaos engineering is all about building software systems that can gracefully recover from failure and adapt to changing conditions. It draws on lessons learned from various domains and emphasizes the importance of adaptation and resilience. By adopting software resilience practices, organizations can transform their security mindset from a reactive 'department of no' approach to a more proactive and modern strategy.

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