EP183 Cloud Security Journeys: Improve, Evolve, Transform with Cloud Customers

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