Software Engineering with DevSecOps Excellence

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DEVOPS
Dec 8, 2023

About Speaker

Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar

Senior Director, Head of Information Security, Shiprocket

Manoj Kumar is a seasoned Information Security professional with a comprehensive understanding of business intricacies, specializing in contextual Cybersecurity risks and controls. With a proven track record, the speaker excels in implementing, reviewing, and managing end-to-end Security solutions, encompassing critical components such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Anti-Advanced Persistent Threat (Anti-APT) measures, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Anti-Virus, and more. Proficient in Security Analytics, Incident Monitoring, and Incident Response, the speaker maintains a proactive and vigilant stance against potential threats. 

Expertise extends to Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Identity Management, ensuring secure access management. Additionally, the speaker is well-versed in encryption solutions, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security, Risk Management, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). With extensive communication and presentation skills, this professional effectively conveys complex security concepts to diverse audiences, articulating security strategies and measures clearly and compellingly. Overall, the speaker combines technical proficiency with strategic insights into business needs, making them a valuable asset in the field of Information Security.

Manoj Kumar is a seasoned Information Security professional with a comprehensive understanding of business intricacies, specializing in contextual Cybersecurity risks and controls. With a proven track record, the speaker excels in implementing, reviewing, and managing end-to-end Security solutions, encompassing critical components such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Anti-Advanced Persistent Threat (Anti-APT) measures, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Anti-Virus, and more. Proficient in Security Analytics, Incident Monitoring, and Incident Response, the speaker maintains a proactive and vigilant stance against potential threats. 

Expertise extends to Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Identity Management, ensuring secure access management. Additionally, the speaker is well-versed in encryption solutions, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security, Risk Management, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). With extensive communication and presentation skills, this professional effectively conveys complex security concepts to diverse audiences, articulating security strategies and measures clearly and compellingly. Overall, the speaker combines technical proficiency with strategic insights into business needs, making them a valuable asset in the field of Information Security.

Manoj Kumar is a seasoned Information Security professional with a comprehensive understanding of business intricacies, specializing in contextual Cybersecurity risks and controls. With a proven track record, the speaker excels in implementing, reviewing, and managing end-to-end Security solutions, encompassing critical components such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Anti-Advanced Persistent Threat (Anti-APT) measures, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Anti-Virus, and more. Proficient in Security Analytics, Incident Monitoring, and Incident Response, the speaker maintains a proactive and vigilant stance against potential threats. 

Expertise extends to Identity and Access Management, including Privileged Identity Management, ensuring secure access management. Additionally, the speaker is well-versed in encryption solutions, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security, Risk Management, and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR). With extensive communication and presentation skills, this professional effectively conveys complex security concepts to diverse audiences, articulating security strategies and measures clearly and compellingly. Overall, the speaker combines technical proficiency with strategic insights into business needs, making them a valuable asset in the field of Information Security.

About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

In the "Empowering Software Engineering with DevSecOps Excellence" YouTube video, information security expert Manoj Kumar shares his personal experiences in cybersecurity and emphasizes the importance of security and resilience in a DevSecOps context. Kumar explains the difference between security, which focuses on robust secure environments and risks, and resilience, which deals with availability and service uptime. 

He emphasizes the need for a strategic approach that identifies risks, understands critical services and infrastructure, and implements policies and procedures. The speaker discusses cloud security and endpoint security, with a focus on API security, authorization, monitoring, real-time monitoring and protection, endpoint detection and response, and access control. For organizations with limited resources, Kumar recommends a security mindset, involving team members, open source tools, and, if necessary, dedicated resources. The importance of human touch, collaboration, automation, continuous monitoring, observability, and secure design are emphasized to ensure effective implementation of security practices in DevSecOps.

In the "Empowering Software Engineering with DevSecOps Excellence" YouTube video, information security expert Manoj Kumar shares his personal experiences in cybersecurity and emphasizes the importance of security and resilience in a DevSecOps context. Kumar explains the difference between security, which focuses on robust secure environments and risks, and resilience, which deals with availability and service uptime. 

He emphasizes the need for a strategic approach that identifies risks, understands critical services and infrastructure, and implements policies and procedures. The speaker discusses cloud security and endpoint security, with a focus on API security, authorization, monitoring, real-time monitoring and protection, endpoint detection and response, and access control. For organizations with limited resources, Kumar recommends a security mindset, involving team members, open source tools, and, if necessary, dedicated resources. The importance of human touch, collaboration, automation, continuous monitoring, observability, and secure design are emphasized to ensure effective implementation of security practices in DevSecOps.

In the "Empowering Software Engineering with DevSecOps Excellence" YouTube video, information security expert Manoj Kumar shares his personal experiences in cybersecurity and emphasizes the importance of security and resilience in a DevSecOps context. Kumar explains the difference between security, which focuses on robust secure environments and risks, and resilience, which deals with availability and service uptime. 

He emphasizes the need for a strategic approach that identifies risks, understands critical services and infrastructure, and implements policies and procedures. The speaker discusses cloud security and endpoint security, with a focus on API security, authorization, monitoring, real-time monitoring and protection, endpoint detection and response, and access control. For organizations with limited resources, Kumar recommends a security mindset, involving team members, open source tools, and, if necessary, dedicated resources. The importance of human touch, collaboration, automation, continuous monitoring, observability, and secure design are emphasized to ensure effective implementation of security practices in DevSecOps.

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

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