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Cloud Security Architect
Kristoffer Hatland is a Cloud Security Architect specializing in Azure at mnemonic, working hands-on with enterprise environments to design, secure, and operate cloud platforms at scale.
He has deep expertise in cloud networking and identity, with a particular focus on how security assumptions break down in real-world architectures. Through his work, he has seen how platform design, organizational structure, and rapid adoption of cloud-native patterns introduce unintended risk.
Kristoffer is especially interested in challenging established cloud security assumptions and exposing where they fail in practice.
Cloud-native architectures didn’t remove the need for network security — they changed how it works.
While identity has become a critical control plane, network-level controls like private endpoints, VNet integration, and segmentation still play an important role in providing visibility and reducing exposure. The problem is that many architectures treat these controls as sufficient on their own.
In this lightning talk, we’ll explore how modern cloud patterns combine identity and network in ways that create hidden trust relationships, reduced visibility, and unexpected attack paths.
Through a few practical examples, we’ll look at where network controls still add value, where they fall short, and why security in cloud-native environments depends on understanding how identity and network interact — not choosing one over the other.
