Allen Vailliencourt
Solutions Engineer at Tailscale
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Allen has been in IT since the late 90's and his career has spanned from being a developer, sysadmin, network admin, to sales, and now sales engineering.
He has worked at startups, higher education, and publicly traded companies.
He got involved into the DevOps world when he built his 1st Docker container in 2014 and has been loving it ever since!
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Rethinking Remote Access in a Remote First World.
Everything we as technology professionals touch has a remote component to it. Whether we are working remotely and need access to cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), or we're in an office and need access to our home-based infrastructure (Plex, Pi, cameras). Or maybe even a mashup of all things remote! What has happened with this fast change to remote access is that we've forgotten to update our network. We're still using old VPN's, whitelisted IP's, or even security by obscurity to secure access. Let's change that.
What if you could access any infrastructure (home/work) from anywhere in the world using a fast and encrypted network? What if you could ditch your SSH keys and use your Identity Provider to authenticate and verify who you are? What if you could securely access SaaS apps without having to manage changing IP whitelists and credentials?
In this session we'll talk through the status quo of today's remote access and see how we can improve our security posture by using OSS tools like Tailscale.
Pitch the Password: Securing Access to Cloud Native Resources with Certificates.
In a Cloud Native world, many organizations and users still use tools and processes that work but are not necessarily the most secure or modern way to access said resources. We're talking about VPNs, shared secrets, legacy keys, and more.
In this session, we will discuss the current status quo with regards to accessing cloud native resources (servers, DB's, K8s, etc on AWS, GCP, Azure, and more) and how accessing these resources the current way (using VPNs, shared secrets, legacy keys, and more) could potentially lead to your systems being compromised and your data exfiltrated.
The solution to this problem is modernizing how we approach access and using tools that do not rely on legacy methods but rather take advantage of standardized and modern security principles and best practices. This includes using certificate-based authentication and authorization that can easily be set up and integrated into your daily workflow using OSS tools like Teleport.
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