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Explore how platform engineering is evolving beyond DevOps to become the foundational operating model for all modern IT through this 37-minute conversation with cybersecurity leader and IT executive Bruno Almeida. Discover why security is transitioning from an incident-response function to a board-level strategic concern, and learn how resilience connects SRE, platform engineering, and cybersecurity. Examine the organizational challenges most companies face including siloed teams, legacy core IT systems, and compliance pressures like NIS2, while understanding why standardizing capabilities matters more than standardizing tools. Delve into the cultural friction that emerges when attempting to unify development, infrastructure, security, data, and operations under a shared platform mindset. Gain insights into why platforms extend beyond serving developers to encompass all IT functions, how cybersecurity platforms represent a form of platform engineering, and why successful transformation requires strategic sequencing, influence, and outcome focus rather than mandates or organizational restructuring. Learn practical approaches to breaking down silos between security, core IT, developers, data teams, and operations while understanding platform engineering as an operating model rather than just a team or toolset. Master the cultural change aspects, platform politics, and transformation sequencing necessary to address boring operational problems that unlock genuine innovation, emphasizing why influence proves more valuable than formal authority in driving platform adoption across the enterprise.
