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AI-Driven DevSecOps: Protecting Kubernetes Microservices with the Kong Ingress Controller

  • Thu, Apr 23, 2026
  • Duration: 1 Hour
  • English
  • Eric Johnson
  • Technical Presentation
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Microservice environments are made up of hundreds (or thousands) of small, independently deployable services, which significantly increases the potential attack surface. Combined with AI coding agents rapidly writing and deploying new services, security teams must implement centralized ingress and egress points to prevent unauthorized access to data.

Join SANS Faculty Fellow Eric Johnson for Part 2 of the AI-Driven DevSecOps series. In this webcast, Eric will install and configure a Kubernetes AI assistant called kubectl-ai to help manage Kubernetes clusters and resources. Using the Kubernetes AI assistant, attendees will discover a microservice API that is insecurely exposed to the Internet. Live demonstrations will show how to install the Kubernetes Gateway API and Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller (KIC). Then, learn how to configure an external Kong Gateway proxy to protect inbound traffic using the JWT authorizer plugin.

This webcast supports content and knowledge from SEC540: Cloud Native Security and DevSecOps Automation. To learn more about this course and explore upcoming sessions, Click Here.

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Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

Principal Security Engineer at Puma Security

Eric Johnson is a Fellow at the SANS Institute and Principal Security Engineer at Puma Security. He leads hands-on training in SEC540: Cloud Native Security and DevSecOps Automation, co-authors SEC549 and SEC510, and develops open-source tools to help practitioners secure cloud pipelines.

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