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by tgtweak 1655 days ago
I advise many fintechs with engineering orgs from 5 to 5000, 2 in top 100 - none are blindly single-cloud and none have 25 people dedicated to each of their public clouds. The largest is not on any public clouds due to regulation/compliance and have several colocation facilities for their mission critical - they have less than 25 dedicated in the entire netsec org. This is a company that maintians strict PCI-DSS1 on thousands of servers and thousands of services. If you're employing 25 people per cloud for netsec in a multi cloud environment you have some seriously deficient DevOps practices or your org is 5-figure deep and has been ignoring devops best practices while on cloud for a half decade. Hahsicorps entire business revolves around cloud agnostic toolkits. All clouds speak kubernetes at this point and unless you have un-cloudable components in your stack (like root cert key signing systems on a proprietary appliance) you really should never find yourself in such a scenario where you have that many people overseeing infra security on a public cloud. It's been proven time and time again that too many people managing security is inversely secure.
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I meant at least 25 people in the DevSecOps role per cloud. Security experts, network/ops/systems experts, and automation (gitlab and container underlay) support.

K8s is one of a hundred technologies to learn and use, and just because each cloud is supported by terraform, you can't swap a GCP terraform writer over to Azure in a day.

And no bank is without their uncloudable components.