Managing the Minimization of a Container Attack Surface – Neil Carpenter – ASW #344
A smaller attack surface should lead to a smaller list of CVEs to track, which in turn should lead to a smaller set of vulns that you should care about. But in practice, keeping something like a container image small has a lot of challenges in terms of what should be considered minimal. Neil Carpenter shares advice and anecdotes on what it takes to refine a container image and to change an org's expectations that every CVE needs to be fixed.
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Neil helps organizations identify and contain security risks in their cloud estates. His passion for getting ahead of security problems comes from over a decade of leading customer-facing security incident response teams at Microsoft and seeing what happens when attackers win. Neil also helped build the future of cloud-native security at Twistlock, StackRox, Torq, and Orca Security before joining Minimus. When he’s not in front of a computer, Neil is an avid NYC-based street photographer.
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The accompanying blog post from our interview with Will Vandevanter back in episode 342.
