DevOps monthly: Securing Logs + Service Catalogs

Agenda:
• 6:00 PM - Check in and hang out
• 6:30 PM - Announcements and presentations
• 7:15 PM - Chat with old and new friends

Talk #1
"Secure Your Logs Down to the Root"
With increasingly large and complex IT environments, it’s becoming more and more difficult to keep up with securing each component. What about ensuring that your logs and audit trails themselves are secure? Quintessence will share how to get started securing each phase of the log management lifecycle.

Bio:
Quintessence Anx is a Technical Evangelist for AppDynamics, an APM provider. She also co-founded and mentors with Inclusive Tech Buffalo, a group dedicated to helping minorities start careers in technology.

Talks #2
"Increasing Reliability with Service Catalogs"
We spoke with 10 tech giants about their secret weapon for running 100s or 1000s of services: a service catalogue. We’ll review how SRE teams use service catalogues to measure operational health and drive DevOps best practices, ultimately increasing both reliability and velocity across engineering.

Bio:
Kenneth Rose has been writing code as part of his job for over 20 years. Ken's career has taken him across the development spectrum: from compilers at Microsoft, to 3D graphics tools at Autodesk, to designing highly available systems at PagerDuty, to GraphQL and webhook processing at Shopify. Ken recently finished a 10-month paternity leave and has started his own company with the mission of helping others build more reliable software.

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