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Access and Secret Management in Cloud Services
Summary
Ryan Lane talks about the methods for handling various types of security problems in cloud services as well as the tools they use at Lyft including Google SAML/OAuth2, Octa for identity management/SSO, Confidant, Vault, Sneaker, Credstash and Keywhiz for secret management, Confidant and KMS for secure bootstrapping, and metadataproxy and ec2metaproxy for limiting access to Docker containers.
Bio
Ryan Lane is a Security Engineer at Lyft. He's the maintainer of a number of Lyft's Open Source security products, like Confidant, metadataproxy and bandit-high-entropy-string. Ryan also wrote and maintains the AWS orchestration code in SaltStack and is a major contributor to Wikimedia and OpenStack projects.
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