The very thought of web application security usually elicits strong feelings of dread. This is an area of security which oftentimes requires specialist knowledge and intimate understanding of our business application architecture. In parallel to this conundrum, the long-broken dawn of cloud technologies, and in turn, cloud-native applications has monumentally exploded the number of web applications available to us all today.
If you’ve been following the evolution of web application architecture in recent years, the trend is quite obvious. Web applications are moving away from monolithic designs, shifting to microservices based architecture, most commonly implemented using cloud native technologies due to their inherent advantages – CI/CD independent pipeline, auto scaling and high portability.
Web application security as we know it can be difficult to adapt to this paradigm because it has its roots in legacy architectures that were very static in nature.
A new approach is required. We need to fight cloud-native with cloud-native! Prisma Cloud is the industry’s first Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP) which provides a suite of capabilities to secure our web applications and the APIs which underpin these diverse services.
In this webinar we will explore how modern microservices-based web applications work and the unique security challenges that arise from this otherwise exciting new world. We will not only discuss the capabilities of Prisma Cloud, but to keep things interesting there will be a live demo of a microservices-based application which we will attack.
Ory Segal, Sr. Distinguished Research Engineer for Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Cloud.
Ory is a world-renowned expert and veteran in application security with 20+ years of experience. Ory joined Palo Alto Networks through the acquisition of PureSec, where he was the CTO and co-founder. Ory holds numerous patents in the field of application security. Ory serves as an officer of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), former CSA Israel Chapter Board Member and former OWASP (IL) board member.
Elad is a Product Manager for WAAS - Palo Alto's cloud native application firewall.
Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Elad led a team of senior security researchers at Akamai, exploring new trends and emerging threats in the world of web application security.
With over 10 years of experience as a cyber security practitioner, Elad has presented his work in leading security conferences such as Blackhat and OWASP's AppSec USA and Europe.
Scott is a Cloud Native Security Engineer with Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks.
He joined Palo Alto Networks over 4 years ago as a Systems Engineer, and prior to this, had a number of years experience in networking, systems admin and information security.
Scott has a broad level of general cyber security experience, but thanks to his passion for all things cloud-native, he worked tirelessly to specialise in this area, and was subsequently given the opportunity to join the Prisma Cloud team last year.
