Pattern matching and head scratching with our new friends The Neoclouds
Matthew Gladney
fwd:cloudsec North America 2026 · Day 1
In this insightful talk, Matthew Gladney addresses a growing challenge faced by cloud security professionals: the proliferation of **NeoClouds**. These are defined as **GPU-focused Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers** that offer compute in dedicated virtual machines, bare metal, or serverless varieties, often with a thin layer of additional services. As organizations increasingly adopt AI and machine learning workloads, the pressure to integrate these specialized platforms mounts, with Gartner even warning that failing to do so risks higher costs, slower innovation, and diminished competitive edge. Gladney argues that while NeoCloud problems are fundamentally cloud problems, the intense AI hype surrounding them often distracts and overwhelms security teams, introducing complex implementation challenges.
AI review
Gladney is clearly a practitioner who's lived this problem, and the talk fills a real gap: nobody's written the field guide for evaluating NeoCloud security posture yet. The framing is useful, the identity granularity point is the sharpest observation, and the agentic workflow idea is directionally interesting — but the talk stays at the framework level when the audience needs the receipts.