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Kubernetes Capture the Flag - Again!
Kubernetes Capture the Flag - Again!
Jan 11, 2022
In this episode
Our hosts had such fun playing Kubernetes CTF with Lewis Denham-Parry that they’ve invited him back for another go-round! This time we will see more advanced security scenarios, and the game will be co-lead by James Cleverley-Prance. Come laugh, play, and learn with us!
Guests
James Cleverley-Prance
James works as a Cloud Native Security Engineer at Control Plane. In his day to day, he focuses on static and dynamic security assessments covering cloud native, infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, and architecture appraisals. He specializes in offensive security, Kubernetes, and cloud native technologies. He has reviewed the security posture of numerous organizations’ cloud infrastructure and systems across a variety of retail, financial, and regulated environments. James also enjoys participating and contributing to CTFs and community events, sharing experiences and ideas that he’s had in client engagements. This has led to him being closely involved with events such as KubeCon NA 2021 Security Days & BSides London CTFs.
Lewis Denham-Parry
Lewis Denham-Parry orchestrates containers by day and hacks them at night He has consulted in many roles, from developing software on bare metal to building the infrastructure somewhere in the cloud.
At Chainguard, he is a Security Engineer helping customers secure their supply chain, from empowering developers to build their containers to offering observability to CISOs.
Community is key to Lewis and he has presented talks and workshops at numerous international conferences from KubeCon, SANS, BSides, to local meetups in Wales.
When not pretending to be an adult, he spends his time with family, playing sports, reading books, and eating copious amounts of food. Lewis can be found on the internet thanks to his surname.
Hosts
Tiffany Jernigan
Tiffany is a senior developer advocate at VMware and is focused on Kubernetes. She previously worked as a software developer and developer advocate (nerd whisperer) for containers at Amazon. She also formerly worked at Docker and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her free time she really likes to travel and dabble in photography. You can find her on Twitter @tiffanyfayj.
Whitney Lee
Whitney is a lovable goofball who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. She is a CNCF Ambassador and active in the open source community. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV. And not only does she rock at tech - she literally has toured playing in the band Mutual Benefit on keyboards and vocals.
Leigh Capili
Leigh is an empathetic speaker and developer with niches in cloud-native systems and security. Leigh comes from a background of building software to manage infrastructure. He contributes to Kubernetes and Flux and is frequently working on his next software demo