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We'll be at DTX Europe this October!

Join us at the ExCeL centre on Wednesday 4th October for The Dark Side of Digital Transformation.

Join us for a workshop on cloud security hacking from both the black hat and white hat perspectives, live with Ashish Rajan.

Plus, we'll dive into Kubernete security with the author of the book Hacking Kubernetes, Andy Martin and special guest, moderated by Steve Giguere.

Location: Platform Security Stage ExCeL Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

Agenda: 4:15-4:30PM: Intros 4:30-5PM: Workshop 5-5:45PM: Panel

Speakers: Ashish Rajan Ashish has over 13+yrs experience in the CyberSecurity industry with the last 7 focussing primarily helping Enterprise with managing security risk at scale in Cloud first world and was the CISO of a global Cloud First Tech company in his last role. Ashish is also a Keynote speaker and host of the wildly popular Cloud Security Podcast, a SANS Trainer for Cloud Security and an outspoken opinion leader on all things Cloud Security & DevSecOps. He is a frequent contributor on topics related to public cloud transformation, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, Security Leadership, AI Security and the associated security challenges for practitioners and CISOs.

Andrew Martin Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is a co-founder at ControlPlane.

Andrew has presented at international conferences including KubeCon, Velocity, SANS, OWASP, DevOpsDays, Container Camp, IPExpo, and numerous other local events and meetups.

RSVP to join us! With thanks to our Gold Sponsors Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto, Sysdig and Apiiro for their continued support!

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