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>>Now there's thousands of potential issues. Many are false positives.

Inspecting output/logs of Qualys is no different than inspecting logs of kubernetes (or other SRE platform). and both overlap.

If you have highly skilled SREs - task them with security. If you dont have good SREs, you have to keep IT architects (and call them infosec) who will be able to look at all your IT Zoo across all your on-prem datacenters and cloud accounts and can make a call to do X,Y, and Z to keep company secure.

and who can recover your infra from groun zero in case you got ransomwared

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I disagree. I think inspecting the output from Qualys (and other tools, including SAST) are substantially and manifestly different from inspecting Kubernetes logs.

I would worry the argument about "highly skilled SREs" could become a "true Scotsman" argument. If a business has any persons who are skilled enough and plentiful enough to process all of the security output and take action on them, let it be so.

My experience is that in practice, there are not the resources to process all of the output that the tools generate. Do you have experience to the contrary where this has been done at a company scale or is your argument a theoretical one that you believe stands to reason?

If you task your fully staffed SRE division to have some people doing cybersecurity full-time, what's the difference between having that and an actual cyber security team? And if you have that, why wouldn't you want to hire experts in that field instead of cross-training or finding generalists?

hiring security experts is expensive and very few companies are able to afford and retain them.

ask yourself what is cheaper: hire and retain Cloud Operation admins in SRE org, hire and retain Cloud security experts in cybersecurity org -- vs hiring a cloud security guru and task him overseeing with maintaining and security $platform_name ?

very few companies are able to hire and retain SRE-Kubernetes operators and Kubernetes security architects, so it kinda makes sense to merge and hire one good expert

Now you're just haggling over price. Ask yourself, what's more expensive, a good security team, or getting hacked? For LastPass, it's existential.

It just depends on the size of the respective orgs. If engineering is 5 people, a dedicated security person doesn't make sense. At 500 you might be able to get away with one. At 5,000 engineers though, you real do need more than one good security expert.

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