It's Not a Best Practice If No One Can Follow It - Learning From Our Container Security Mistakes

Learn from a decade of container security evolution in this 28-minute conference talk where two industry veterans share hard-won lessons about making security practices actually implementable. Discover why early container security solutions like Twistlock and Alpine Linux, despite their technical merits, often failed to deliver practical results for development teams. Explore the gap between theoretical best practices and real-world implementation challenges, including the difficulties teams faced with complex segmentation policies, build breakages, and maintenance overhead. Gain insights from John Morello (former CTO of Twistlock, now co-founder of Minimus) and Alex Zenla (CTO and co-founder of Edera) as they analyze what went wrong with early approaches and extract actionable lessons that today's engineering teams can apply to successfully harden their container deployments without sacrificing developer productivity.