Enterprise Security

You wake up, alarm blaring. Your AI assistant notifies you there’s been another netrunner attack on the company. You chug down your synthesized meal replacement drink and hurriedly rush out the door, “hopefully the maglev isn’t delayed again” you think to yourself. You scan yourself into the office with facial recognition and check your metrics for security incidents, you realize you’ve gone below your allowed security KPIs this month and hope they don’t dock your pay again....

What is Client Platform Engineering? One of the growing ideas in tech is the idea of a “Client Platform Engineering” (CPE) team. I looked around and to my surprise I couldn’t find much in the way of content for what these teams do. I managed the Client Platform Engineering team at Shopify and worked closely with our team in Atlassian when I was leading the enterprise security team there so I figured I would attempt to demystify the team and what they do....

Background Update: This blog was posted back in 2021 on my previous blog and was based on a 2020 talk I did. In migrating to a new platform I’ve gone through and applied a few updates for 2022 mostly focusing on new features available on the market and upcoming changes such as WebAuthN improvements with passwordless. I spent the last few years building out a Zero Trust architecture as the Head of Corporate Security in Atlassian and I figured it’s time to write a blog going into some of the design decisions we made and how we implemented the changes at enterprise scale....