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How to Design a Secure Serverless Architecture 2021
Release Date: 09/14/2021
Working Group: Serverless
Like any solution, serverless computing brings with it a variety of cyber risks. This paper provides best practices and recommendations for securing serverless applications. It offers an extensive overview of the different threats, focusing on the application owner risks that serverless platforms are exposed to and suggesting the appropriate security controls.
- What is Serverless
- Advantages and benefits of serverless architecture
- Shared responsibility model for serverless
- Security design, controls and best practices
- Kubernetes security best practices
- CI-CD pipelines, Function Code, Code scans and policy enforcement for Functions and Containers
- Compliance and governance for serverless
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Aradhna Chetal
Senior Director Executive- Cloud Security
Aradhna serves as a Senior Director Executive- Cloud Security at TIAA, a financial services company. She is responsible for the cloud security vision, strategy, standards, security patterns for a multi-cloud hybrid enterprise and engineer security solutions, to support the vision. Aradhna has worked in various Cybersecurity leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Boeing Company, Microsoft & T-Mobile.
Aradhna is an active member in the cy...
Vishwas Manral
Founder at Precize Inc & Fellow at Cloud Security Alliance
Vishwas is the Founder at Precize Inc, a stealth Cloud and AI security startup. Vishwas is also the co-chair of CSA’s Serverless Working Group and the Chair of Cloud Security Alliance in Silicon Valley. He was the head of Cloud Native security and Chief Technologist at McAfee Enterprise + FireEye. Vishwas joined McAfee Enterprise when his com...
Madhav Chablani
Consulting CIO, TippingEdge Consulting
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Peter Campbell
Chief Information Security Officer, Cigna
Cloud Security Engineering leader responsible for security engineering and security innovation. Enables new and untried technologies, runs proof of concepts, designs and engineers security configurations and enables the business to leverage new technology safely. Led the creation of Cigna’s security assurance framework which ensures that the security vision is consistently executed. Current research focuses on the domains of sec...
Vani Murthy
Sr. Information Security Compliance Advisor, Akamai Technologies
Vani has 20+ years of IT experience in the areas such as Security, Risk, Compliance, Cloud services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) architecture
Ricardo Ferreira
EMEA CISO
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John Wrobel
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Shobhit Mehta
Shobhit Mehta is a distinguished professional with over 12 years of expertise in Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Privacy frameworks, with notable experience in the security and privacy domains. His illustrious career has seen him contribute significantly to organizations such as PayPal, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Fidelity Investments, where he played pivotal roles in ensuring the integrity and security of critical systems and...
John Kinsella
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Elisabeth Vasquez
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Brad Woodward
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David Hadas
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Akshay Mahajan
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Anil Karmel
CEO, C2 Labs
Anil Karmel is the Co-Founder and CEO of RegScale, which helps organizations start and stay compliant via the world's first real-time GRC platform. Formerly, Anil served as the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Karmel began his government career as a Technical Staff Member of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and was responsible for inventing their cloud and collaboration technologies Kar...
Alex Rebo
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Dr. Vrettos Moulos
Dr. Vrettos Moulos is a senior research software engineer in Institute of Communication and Computer Systems in Greece. He holds a PhD in secure microservice architecture patterns from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
He has been a member, for more than 10 years, of software development teams creating mission critical applications (rule-based decision systems, sec...
Abhishek Vyas
Head of Security Consultancy and Architecture
I have been working in Cybersecurity for over 10 years, and have been working on large scale multi-cloud programs in the Software and Finance industries over that period. I deliver business value through robust, scalable, fit for business cybersecurity, by establishing new ways of working to help the business to innovate. Challenging the status quo to help remove inertia, and ensuring that cybersecurity remains relevant and mea...
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Cyber Security Architect
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Senior Research Analyst, CSA EMEA
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