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Ghosts to Guardrails: Moving Beyond the Alert Driven Posture

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Shaun McCullough
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In this talk, we will discuss how we are moving GitHub’s cloud security posture program from an alert-driven to a guardrail-driven environment, the tools we use in AWS and Azure, and the successes and pitfalls of building this program.

SANS CloudSecNext Summit 2025

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Shaun McCullough
Shaun McCullough

Shaun McCullough

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Shaun McCullough spent 20+ years at the NSA working in cyber operations as a software engineer and technical director of Blue, Red, and Hunt teams. He is currently a staff level Cloud Security Engineer at GitHub.

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