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Cloud Resiliency Expert Dives Deep into Chaos Engineering and Chaos Monkey

Modern cloud environments are built on distributed services, APIs, cloud provider dependencies, identity systems, containers and automation layers that can fail in ways that are difficult to predict. For IT teams responsible for resilience, the challenge is not just recovering from outages or attacks after they happen, but understanding how systems and response teams behave under stress before a real incident puts business operations, customer trust and compliance obligations at risk.

At today’s online Cyber Resilience for Cloud-Native Infrastructure Summit hosted by Virtualization & Cloud Review
, longtime technology author Brien Posey focused much of his session on chaos engineering, including its Netflix origins and that company’s Chaos Monkey tool and the operational risks of testing resilience by intentionally creating failures.

Posey’s session, “Expert Strategies: Building Resilient Incident Response for Modern Cloud Environments,” was part of the Rubrik-sponsored virtual event, which focused on cloud security posture, hybrid and…