Open Source Summit Europe 2025

When we talk about cloud security, the first thing that comes to mind is otters. Obviously.

In this talk, we’ll dive into the fascinating analogy between the world of cloud security and wildlife. We’ll explore Falco, eBPF, and others and how they relate to our very own animal ecosystem. This perspective offers a unique and intuitive way to understand cloud security.

Think of chameleons and adaptive security: changing colours to match evolving threats.

We’ll migrate like birds, discovering security’s role in real-world workload transitions across clouds.

We’ll collaborate like bees, protecting the hive with policies, alerts, and shared responsibility.

We’ll defend like armadillos, layer by layer, showing how strong defence is often the best offence.

And we’ll feel our spider-sense tingle — like observability tools catching anomalies across the great web of services.

And, just like otters, we’ll hold hands to stay together in the rushing currents of the cloud.

And who’s heard of chaos monkeys? Clever and unpredictable, just like attackers exploiting misconfigurations and edge cases! We’ll take a look at how that plays out in the wild world of cloud-native security.