App Security Summit

As organizations accelerate their software delivery, the traditional security "gatekeeper" model has become a primary bottleneck. This session explores how to shift security left by embedding zero-trust guardrails directly into the CI/CD pipeline using Kyverno and OPA. We will walk through a production-hardened architecture that automates Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) and resource governance, ensuring security is a background process rather than a manual hurdle.

Attendees will learn how to move beyond static YAML configurations and implement self-healing infrastructure policies that detect and remediate drift in real-time. By the end of this session, technical leaders will have a clear blueprint for reducing manual security tickets by over 90% while maintaining absolute compliance across multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.

About the Speaker
Pavan Madduri is a Senior Platform Engineer at W.W. Grainger and a CNCF Golden Kubestronaut—an elite designation held by fewer than 400 practitioners globally. An IEEE Senior Member and active open-source contributor to CNCF Dragonfly and Volcano, Pavan specializes in hyperscale AI infrastructure and Zero-Trust autonomous incident response.