Inaugural Event Will Bring Together Cloud Native Community to Discuss Workload Identity Challenges and Share Best Practices
Venafi, the leader in machine identity management, today announced its first-ever Workload Identity Day Zero event on November 12, 2024, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City, UT. The event will bring together platform engineers, cloud security architects and CTOs to explore unique workload identity challenges in complex cloud native environments, share best practices for effectively securing workloads in their organizations and network with the leaders shaping workload identity management.
The Workload Identity Day Zero speaker line-up will feature leading experts in the space, including:
- Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent
- Tomer Greenwald, CEO and Co-Founder, Otterize
- Louis Bailleul, Chief Enterprise Architect, PGS
- Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect, Red Hat
- Evan Gilman, Co-Founder and CEO, SPIRL
- Matt Barker, VP & Global Head of Workload Identity Architecture, Venafi
- Mattias Gees, Director of Technology, Venafi
“With more clouds, clusters and microservices than ever, workload identity is becoming a more urgent issue for organizations to address,” said Matt Barker, VP & global head of workload identity architecture at Venafi. “This event is a must-attend for anyone who is interested in gaining a better understanding of increasing workload identity complexity and exploring ways to solve these emerging workload identity problems.”
Venafi is also hosting a hands-on SPIFFE & SPIRE in Practice training on November 11. Delivered by the creators of the machine identity management category and inventors of cert-manager, the expert training will provide attendees with the SPIFFE and SPIRE skills required to implement secure workload identity management, reduce secrets sprawl, take control of overprivileged workloads and implement a zero-trust networking model.
To see the full agenda and register for the events, please visit https://venafi.com/events/workload-identity-day-zero/.
About Venafi
Venafi is the cybersecurity market leader in machine identity management. From the ground to the cloud, Venafi solutions manage and protect identities for all types of machines—from physical and IoT devices to software applications, APIs and containers. Venafi provides global visibility, lifecycle automation and actionable intelligence for all machine identity types and the security and reliability risks associated with them.
With more than 30 patents, Venafi delivers innovative machine identity management solutions for the world's most demanding, security-conscious organizations and government agencies, including the top five U.S. health insurers, top five U.S. airlines, top four payment card issuers and top four U.S. banks. As a leading provider of open source machine identity management solutions, Venafi is the creator of the open source cert-manager project, which is downloaded more than 1.5 million times a day. For more information, visit https://venafi.com/.
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