Session 2.8d Tutorial: Leveraging Kubernetes Securely for C4ISR Systems
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| Wednesday, November 15, 2023 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Nicholls Theatre |
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C4ISR and Joint All Domain capabilities are critical to the modern military. Underpinning them are distributed computer systems able to perform timely data collection, processing, sharing, analytics and response.
Microservices architectures continue to grow in popularity as a means to satisfy the competing demands of resilience, integration, scalability and agility required for these systems. Kubernetes is emerging as the infrastructure of choice to run them across private, hybrid and public clouds.
We’ll explore a short history of the evolution of microservices and Kubernetes and discuss unique and unusual principles that could help or hinder successful adoption. We'll consider the differences in attack surface compared to traditional hardware and virtualised infrastructure and look at the resulting cybersecurity opportunities and challenges.
This session is intended to provide practical insights into the advantages of Kubernetes infrastructure in a C4ISR context and how to securely design for it, informed by the US DoD DevSecOps Reference Design.
Speaker/s
Mr Simeon Finch
Systems Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
Simeon is a passionate technologist and cyber security specialist with a career spanning multiple sectors of Australian Critical Infrastructure. He balances his progressive and disruptive nature with a practical and pragmatic understanding developed through real world operational and enterprise risk experience. Simeon spent 4 years in senior leadership at a banking service provider with custodianship of billions of dollars in Australian financial assets; where he managed the transition to CPS234 regulation. He was an early contributor to the SOCI Act implementation in the energy sector and developed a security architecture for a large cloud based Open Banking solution. He currently supports Australian Defence as a Systems Engineer at Palo Alto Networks. Outside of work, Simeon is a keen adventurer, having completed a number of long distance hikes around the world. Last year he walked South Australia's 1200km Heysen Trail, while fundraising for Diabetes SA.
