Cloud War Games: Training Engineers for Outages Under Pressure | Matt Lea
Security Unfiltered PodcastOctober 20, 202600:08:01

Cloud War Games: Training Engineers for Outages Under Pressure | Matt Lea

Every minute of downtime costs one of Matt Lea's clients about $10,000, and the new engineer freezes while executives yell. So Matt built Cloud War Games: a fake company in AWS he can knock down all day with misconfigurations, attacks, full databases and DDoS, so responders get used to the stress before it's real. Matt and Joe South get into spotting the "lone wolf programmer," using war games as a hiring tool, a tabletop where nobody told security about the breach until week two, and why runbooks and documentation save you at 3am.

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