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Chris Nesbitt-Smith

Chris Nesbitt-Smith

Consultant

London, United Kingdom

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A developer at heart with a passion for testing, while still active in the open source community.
Chris has been using and abusing Kubernetes since 0.4 in production, in government, for citizen facing services; he's worked extensively in critical national infrastructure where "matters of life or death" is not just a flippant throwaway comment. Chris provides training and consulting to many UK & US Government departments, large multinational private sector enterprises, and large charities.
Through all of this Chris has seen a lot of organizational and technical disfunction (not all of his own making) and in inefficiencies, and wants to you join him in fixing them

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Business & Management
  • Government, Social Sector & Education

Topics

  • Governance
  • Security & Compliance
  • Policy as Code
  • Policy Development
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) security and policy-as-code
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CLOUD STUFF: Cloud & Serverless infrastructure
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  • Cloud Containers and Infrastructure
  • Information Security
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Cloud Native Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure
  • Information Technology
  • networking infrastructure
  • Secure Infrastructure
  • immutable infrastructure
  • software infrastructure
  • Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
  • InfoSec
  • information architecture
  • Azure Policy
  • Open Policy Agent
  • DevOps
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOpsCulture
  • DevOps Skills
  • Modern Software Development
  • aws
  • AWS DevOps
  • Cloud Security Architecture
  • Cloud strategy
  • Cloud Security
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Cloud Computing on the Azure Platform
  • Cloud Native
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloud App Security
  • Cloud Automation
  • Cloud Computig
  • IT Security
  • web security
  • Application Security
  • Database and Cloud
  • Google Cloud Paltform
  • cyber security
  • Cyber Security basics
  • cyber forensics
  • Active Cyber Defence
  • Cyber Lead
  • Cyberthreats
  • Continous Delivery
  • continuous delivery
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Testing
  • Continuous Software Development
  • Continuous compliance (DevSecOps perspective)
  • Continous Integration
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Digital Transformation
  • GitHub Actions
  • Digital strategy and Transformation
  • Digital Strategy
  • gitops
  • Digital
  • Digital Platform Stratergy
  • GitHub Apps
  • GitHub Advanced Security
  • Kubernetes
  • Container and Kubernetes security
  • Linode Kubernetes Engine
  • kubernetes backup & recovery
  • kubernates
  • kuberentes community day
  • kubeflow
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Kubernetes Security
  • Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
  • kuberenetes
  • enterprise kubernetes
  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service
  • k8s

Policy as [versioned] code - how to do day 2

In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of **is the policy helping or hindering**.
From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.

Is It Time To Put Your Pet Kubernetes Down?

Explores how Kubernetes is the new pet and the consequences that presents.

Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...?

What are Pod Security Policies? What do you mean, they are deprecated? What am I going to do?!

Cloud With Chris Sessionize Event

December 2023

Mobile DevOps Summit Sessionize Event

November 2022

India Cloud Security Summit 2022 Sessionize Event

October 2022

WeAreDevelopers Live 2022 Sessionize Event

September 2022

Chris Nesbitt-Smith

Consultant

London, United Kingdom

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