AWS IAM - curse and blessing. 10 steps to follow to not end in a world of pain.

Let's assume you're about to get started on AWS. You care about security, but you also want to get things done. You want to keep things simple, but also follow best practices.
What would this look like? How do you get AWS Identity and Access Management right from the start?
What should you do and what should you definitely not do?

This session will be a QuickStart to AWS IAM, highlighting 10 practical tips to follow to get started and build good, simple and secure foundations on AWS.

The session will be full of demos and afterwards you will be able to apply all your takeaways to your new or even existing environment.

Applying aviation style principles to cloud security - let's not crash in the cloud

Almost daily now do we hear about another big data breach with often millions of people having their data stolen. Many of these data breaches happen to organizations that have infrastructure deployed in the cloud.
In the aviation industry each incident is cause for a thorough review after which commercial operators usually adapt their operations or adopt new ways of operating to ensure this particular incident does not happen again.

They do it successfully. Let's see if we can do this as well.

In this session we will investigate real security incidents that happened to cloud-based organizations and find out ways to ensure we can avoid them in the future.

This session will be jampacked with demos giving attendees a handy to-do list to take away back to their teams to work on and improve their cloud security posture.

Amazing practical tips for administrators to save money in the cloud

Cloud bill shock is real, and it hits too many organizations for absolutely preventable reasons. Often this happens after migrations to the cloud.

Let's look at reasons this happens and patterns we can implement to reduce the cloud spend, while still retaining the functionality required, with none to minimal scripting required.

We will look at replacing scheduled tasks, proper utilization of resources, and monitoring and reporting of cloud spend.

Come to this session full of demos and walk away with the ability to tell your team that you can save real money with some simple changes.

AMA - How we built a highly scalable SaaS on Azure

Founder of ARGOS Cloud Security, David O'Brien, former 9-year Azure MVP, will sit down with you, next to the festive fireplace (in the middle of the Australian Summer), for an AMA on how he and his team designed and built a highly scalable cloud security product on Azure.
Ask him questions about designing a cloud-native application for minimal budget but maximum scale, how to overcome scaling issues, how to bake security into a platform from day 1, the ups and downs of a startup founder, early experiences and takeaways from integrating AI into a cloud security product.
Nothing is off-limits.

Traditional infrastructure in the cloud - Lipstick on a pig?

We see it a lot. Companies move towards the cloud and sometimes do not really know how, they struggle, get help, they often struggle as well.
Why?
Companies want to start tipping their toes into the water (clouds are made of water) by moving their existing traditional infrastructure into the cloud and then fail doing so.
Lift & shift is usually wrong and will bite you in the long run. This session will explain why.
Let's check out reasons why companies move towards the cloud, how they can potentially fail and let's learn from other people's mistakes and learn how to do it the right way.
No bill-shock, no ugly surprises on weekends, no "next release is in 3 months".

Good practices to not shoot yourself in the foot in the Azure cloud

With great power comes great responsibility. Cloud platforms give people immense power by enabling them to almost do whatever they want. In this workshop we will uncover the terrible things that your colleagues don’t want you to know that they did. From unpatched virtual machines over publicly accessible servers with default administrator passwords to money burning test environments. We’ll look at practices and Azure services to save you money and also the administrator’s sanity. You are in control of your company’s environments. Come to this workshop to hear about horror stories encountered in the wild and see how simple it can be to not shoot yourself in the foot when putting workloads into the cloud by starting to use cloud services hands on without much effort and get a massive ROI straight away.

Not your other datacenter - 10 tips for a successful Azure migration

Whip out your credit card and you have Azure. Easy as!
However, how do you make sure to be successful with your Azure project and not fall into the trap of treating Azure as just another datacenter?
What are the 10 most important things to follow to make sure you are successful and the hero of your cloud migration?

Real life experiences from years of helping customers be successful on Azure and also helping customers remediate the issues they found themselves in by applying traditional mindsets to Azure.
Lots of great takeaways for attendees to implement.