Join Us at Our LA AWS Users Group Meetup Events:
Our CTO Kevin Epstein currently runs the LA AWS Users Group. The Group has 1,250+ members and meets monthly, hosting complimentary evening events where we share lessons learned about using Amazon Web Services, including API’s, EC2, S3, Automation, Deployment, Security, ELB, High Availability, and Business Continuity (earthquake and Tsunami concerns in particular). The group’s purpose is to network, collaborate, share experiences, and help others where possible. The LA AWS User Group is free and we encourage all LA area AWS enthusiasts to come to our monthly meetings and join in the discussion and fun. To learn more about all of our upcoming events join our group on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-AWS-Users-Group/
What to Expect? Featured Meetup on Revisiting Security in AWS:
The LA AWS Users Group Meetup held an event on Revisiting Security in AWS. The event featured presenters from AWS, Evidient.io, and us and covered a breath of security hot topics such as best practices, logging, compliance, and DevOps. After the presentation, Kevin Epstein, CTO and the group’s moderator led a panel discussion and Q&A where attendees asked the presenters their most pressing security questions.
Presentation #1: Operational Logging & Compliance | Neeraj Verma, AWS
Learn more about operational logging and compliance checks in AWS from Neeraj Verma Solutions Architect at AWS. He’ll provide an overview of security hot topics using CloudTrail, CloudWatch Logs, Cloudwatch Events, VPC Flow logs, Config, Config Rules & Inspector.
Presentation #2: Secure DevOps on AWS | John Martinez, Evident.io
Creating a secure AWS environment isn’t that hard. In fact, you may already be following some good practices in AWS as part of your DevOps processes. In this talk, we’ll discuss some of the patterns that promote Security on AWS via your DevOps toolchain. Part code, part culture, we’re sure to have a lively discussion on how getting secure isn’t going to slow you down.
