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(Oliver Bassett) Sam built a great gateway. Users are authenticated, requests are validated, the front door is solid. Inside the cluster, services trust each other — because they're inside the cluster.

Then Omen shows up.

This talk follows Sam the SRE through a nightly battle against Omen the Evil Hacker — and how SPIFFE and SPIRE finally give every Python service a cryptographic identity it can prove, not just claim.

https://2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/KFJLUE/

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Fri Aug 28 11:30:00 2026 AEST (UTC+10) at Ballroom 2