Evolving Identity And Security For Workloads | Dwayne McDaniel | SREday NYC 2026 Q2

SREday NYC Q2 - June 6 2026 Grab your ticket for the next SREday: https://www.sreday.com Upcoming SREday CFPs: https://cfp.ninja/?q=sreday&status=open Chapters 00:00 What Counts as a Mouse 01:06 Anthropomorphism and Risks 02:44 Meet Dwayne and Setup 03:44 From Mainframes to ARPANET 04:59 Pets to DevOps Shift 07:30 Cloud IaC and Containers 10:30 True Cattle Mindset 11:34 Agentic AI Is Just Math 14:09 Agent Architecture and Gates 15:37 Access and No Standing Privilege 18:29 Secrets Sprawl on GitHub 21:00 Identity and Intent Future 21:56 SPIFFE SPIRE and Service Mesh 24:30 Standards and Cloud Tokens 27:01 Practical Tools and Uber Example 28:32 SRE Security Wake Up Call 29:07 Threats ShyHalut and Wrap Up