Securing Norway's Welfare System: Transparent End-to-End Encryption in the Cloud

Explore how the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) revolutionized its security approach when moving to public cloud in 2020. Learn about the challenges of managing one-third of Norway's annual state budget through various welfare schemes on a massive scale, with 150 cross-functional product teams and 1600 individual applications running on Kubernetes. Discover the implementation of transparent end-to-end encryption in the network layer as a key security pillar, and the journey from struggling with one service mesh to successfully adopting a lightweight alternative. Gain insights into balancing developer convenience, reliability, and security for government applications, and how this new platform has improved both developer and citizen experiences while withstanding recent attacks. Delve into the story of securing Norway's welfare system in this informative conference talk.