Access Without Friction: Modern Identity and Secrets Management for DevOps Teams

DevOps teams are building faster than ever—but securing access between workloads, services, and infrastructure often slows them down. Hardcoded credentials, secrets sprawl, and misconfigured vaults can lead to security incidents and productivity bottlenecks. Join Andrew McCormick, former SRE and Security Engineer at Starbucks, and Apurva Dave' from Aembit for a practical conversation on modern access management approaches that prioritize velocity and security. We'll break down real-world patterns and pitfalls across cloud-native environments as well as hard-to-manage on-premise and retail deployments. Expect tactical takeaways on: How to shift left on access without shifting burden to developers Why service-to-service authorization is becoming the new perimeter When to use secrets managers vs. workload identity platforms Lessons learned from scaling IAM in fast-moving DevOps orgs Whether you're drowning in YAML or just tired of rotating secrets by hand, this session will give you actionable ideas to modernize access in your pipelines—without breaking velocity.