Securing Distributed Cache: Achieving Secure-by-Default with Key Challenges and Insights

Learn about securing a massive distributed caching system at Netflix that handles 400 million requests per second across 14 petabytes of data in this conference talk from SREcon25 Americas. Explore the complex security challenges faced by Netflix engineers, including certificate lifecycle management, policy lookup optimization, and securing proxy calls for polyglot clients. Follow their debugging journey using advanced techniques like CPU profiling and memory dumps. Gain practical insights on retrofitting high-leverage systems for security compliance and implementing effective global-scale rollouts that can be applied to any organization's infrastructure. Presented by Akashdeep Goel, Sriram Rangarajan, and Samuel Fu from Netflix Inc.