Okta Director of Security Engineering Arun Kumar Elengovan on What Security Observability Teaches About Monitoring Systems in Permanent Failure States
The engineer who built observability infrastructure for a platform handling more than a billion identity transactions daily evaluated hackathon projects in which system failure is the intended outcome. They discovered that the hardest problem in security operations applies just as forcefully when collapse is the feature, not the bug. In 2019, Capital One’s security team…