Niveadita Razdan
Niveadita Razdan is a STEM professional and fiction author with a background in global data systems, regulatory intelligence and large-scale technical problem-solving. She brings a unique narrative lens to break down the hidden risks inside serverless and event-driven cloud architectures.
Session
Serverless abstracts bare metal, not the burden. In fast, event-driven clouds, threats often outpace traditional controls. Misconfigurations, fuzzy trust boundaries, and brittle integrations open new attack surfaces: vulnerable libraries, leaky secrets, wildcard IAM, and misconfigured triggers. In this immersive 3-hour workshop, you will build a hands-on cloud lab with serverless components to design and secure an end-to-end AI pipeline using LynxLab. Through gamified, branch-by-branch challenges, teams will identify vulnerabilities, trace real-world attack paths, and map findings to STRIDE and OWASP Serverless categories. We will examine how ephemeral execution, event chains, and implicit trust can be abused, and how to close those gaps without slowing delivery. You will leave with practical patterns, and defensive strategies for identity, secrets, triggers, and observability, plus a focused playbook to reduce blast radius and ship resilient, modern serverless applications.