API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): O11y Like a B.O.S.S - The Modern Observability Stack

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

Noam Levy, groundcover, Field CTO

Observability isn’t just about collecting metrics, events, logs, and traces - it’s about how we architect the stack to handle them efficiently and effectively.
Traditional SaaS-based observability solutions come with major challenges: unpredictable costs, fragmented tooling, and vendor lock-in.
In this session, we’ll introduce the B.O.S.S paradigm - Bring your own cloud, One-stop shop, Standardized, and Self-reliant - outlining a modern approach to observability that prioritizes cost efficiency, data sovereignty, open standards, and next-generation technologies like eBPF.
We’ll discuss real-world applications, common pitfalls, and how this paradigm is shaping the future of cloud-native observability.

Speakers

Noam Levy

Field CTO, groundcover

Noam Levy is the Field CTO and a founding engineer at groundcover, focused on how we approach cloud-native observability. Originally a web developer, he spent the past decade growing into a platform engineer and a solution architect.Noam works closely with customers to better understand... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Additional Topics SaaS
Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks CloudX, Service Monitoring and Observability (CloudX), SRE / DevOps and Platform Engineering (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:30pm PDT

OPEN Session (CloudX): Hack the Cloud: Attackers Love Blind Spots, Break Their Hearts

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Brian Contos, Mitiga, Field CISO

Malicious actors, on an unholy crusade, have discovered that a lack of visibility across Cloud, SaaS, and Identity, combined with legacy controls that provide limited cloud detection and response capabilities, grants them a nefarious advantage. This lack of visibility, detection, and response in cloud environments allows malicious actors to operate with an elevated ability to breach organizations, evade detection, and maintain persistence.

As businesses transition to the cloud, critical assets, sensitive data, and an increasing array of interconnected SaaS applications have followed. This shift attracts malicious actors eager to exploit any visibility gaps, such as those caused by the segmentation of environments across workloads and SaaS. While such segmentation is a beneficial security best practice for incident prevention, it also provides a stealthy refuge for attackers. In essence, your SecOps team is operating within a landscape fraught with invisible threats.

This presentation will explore real-life stories from the trenches, drawn from years of cloud-based incident response. Various hacks will be explored to illustrate how breaches occur, what happens following a breach, and why organizations are struggling to detect and respond.

Finally, we will cover mitigation strategies such as proactively preparing for a breach, discovering malicious activity, and responding. Malicious actors are counting on your passivity, your blind spots, and your inability to effectively detect and respond to attacks in the cloud. Break their hearts!

Speakers

Brian Contos

Field CISO, Mitiga

With two IPOs & eight acquisitions, Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as a security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX