Rob Kenefeck
Rob Kenefeck is Field CTO at ControlPlane and a CNCF Ambassador with a background in securing cloud native platforms in production. A Kubestronaut (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA), he has spoken on AI security and Kubernetes hardening at AISA CyberCon Melbourne and Canberra, Everything Open, and Cloud Native Summit Auckland.
He organises Cloud Native Sydney and Melbourne and is co-organising KCD Melbourne 2026. His current focus sits at the intersection of AI adoption and cloud native security — helping organisations understand not just that they need to secure AI infrastructure, but exactly how.
AI on Kubernetes is a hidden attack surface
Hands-on findings on GPU container escapes, model-weight side channels, and agent trust failures that traditional cloud native tooling misses entirely.
Trusting agents with your secrets: What OpenBao taught us about Agentic Identity
A practitioner's account of testing OpenBao as a secrets management foundation for autonomous agents, covering what worked and where it fell short.
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