The presentation discusses the challenges of building a new platform on new technology with limited experience in the company, while balancing the need for control and the ability to move fast. The solution involves questioning traditional approaches and finding new ways to solve issues with modern security approaches and layering.
- The company faces competition from pure tech companies and changing customer expectations, while also dealing with regulatory requirements and the need to maintain customer trust.
- The balancing act involves implementing the right level of security while finding common ground and allowing for both control and the ability to move fast.
- Traditional concerns like networking and web application firewalls still apply, but modern capabilities like Kubernetes and layering can help solve issues in new ways.
- The starting point involved interviewing teams and systematically gathering data to manage Kubernetes, which takes a lot of work.
- The solution involves questioning traditional approaches and finding new ways to solve issues with modern security approaches and layering.