Authors: Ted Young, Alolita Sharma, Morgan McLean, Daniel Dyla
2022-05-18
tldr - powered by Generative AI
The conference presentation discusses the need for security measures in OpenTelemetry and proposes solutions to potential security risks.
The speaker suggests applying the principle of attribute removal and processing at the SDK level to prevent sensitive information from leaving the process.
The redaction processor and collector have the capability to blank out sensitive information such as credit card numbers.
Baggage is another area where sensitive information can potentially leak and a solution such as a proxy may be necessary to scrub the information.
There is a need for a community effort to address common security and privacy questions and provide comprehensive answers.
The speaker also mentions the importance of ensuring that any instrumentation provided to users does not include personally identifiable information by default.