--- title: "RSAC 2023 interview: Tigera talks cloud-native security on theCUBE" source: "https://www.tigera.io/blog/rsac-2023-interview-tigera-talks-cloud-native-security-on-thecube/" description: "Utpal Bhatt talks cloud-native security with SiliconANGLE & theCUBE host John Furrier at RSAC 2023." --- [Company Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/company-blog/) # RSAC 2023 interview: Tigera talks cloud-native security on theCUBE By [Laura Ferguson](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/laura-ferguson/) on May 02, 2023 • 2 min read During RSA Conference 2023, Utpal Bhatt sat down with SiliconANGLE & theCUBE host, John Furrier, to talk cloud-native security. Watch the full interview below. [https://video-cube365-net-east.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/video-stream/20145/origin.mp4](https://video-cube365-net-east.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/video-stream/20145/origin.mp4)   Here’s a sneak peak of what’s inside… “Cloud-native applications have fundamentally changed how security gets done. There are a lot of challenges that cloud-native applications bring to the table, given their large attack surface. You have attack vectors in your coding, CI/CD pipeline, deployment, and runtime. And I think that’s what organizations are realizing, that hey, this is fundamentally a different kind of architecture and we need to look at it differently.” —Utpal Bhatt, CMO at Tigera “Cloud-native applications have fundamentally changed how security gets done. And there are a lot of challenges that cloud-native applications bring to the table, which is what organizations are realizing. If you think about organizations moving into the cloud, the majority have traditionally done a lift and shift. But now they’re recognizing that in order to get the economics right, they need to start developing cloud-native technologies, which are highly distributed, ephemeral, and transient. So all your standard security tools just really don’t work in that environment because you have a really large attack surface. Also coupled with that is all the CI/CD automation. So now you have developers checking in code, merging it, pushing it into production—and all that is happening several times a day. So you don’t have your usual controls applicable anymore. And then you have the orchestrator, like Kubernetes, deploying code all the time. So you have a lot of different types of attack vectors now. You have attack vectors in your coding, CI/CD pipeline, deployment, and runtime. And I think that’s what organizations are realizing, that hey, this is fundamentally a different kind of architecture and we need to look at it differently.” ***To learn more about [cloud-native security](https://www.tigera.io/learn/guides/cloud-native-security/), read our detailed guide.***   [Event](https://www.tigera.io/tags/event/)[Announcements](https://www.tigera.io/tags/announcements/) ## Related posts [![Meet Mylo: An AI-native way to work with Calico](https://www.tigera.io/app/uploads/2026/09/Meet-Mylo-An-AI-native-way-to-work-with-Calico.png)](https://www.tigera.io/blog/meet-mylo-an-ai-native-way-to-work-with-calico/) [Technical Blog](https://www.tigera.io/category/technical-blog/) #### [Meet Mylo: An AI-native way to work with Calico](https://www.tigera.io/blog/meet-mylo-an-ai-native-way-to-work-with-calico/) By [Phil DiCorpo](https://www.tigera.io/blog/author/phil-dicorpo/) on Sep 3, 2026 A library of Calico tools and skills — delivered through the Calico MCP Server What if your hardest network question took ten minutes instead of ten days? 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