# benarent.co.uk

> Personal site of Ben Arent — Director of Product at Teleport, based in Oakland, California. Conference talk summaries, posts on product, security, infrastructure access, developer tools, and IoT. Online since 2006.

## About
- [About Ben Arent](/about/): Director of Product at Teleport, an infrastructure identity company. 15+ years in developer tools across Product, DevRel, and UX roles — previously SolarWinds and Rackspace (RedisToGo, Airbrake), co-founded a startup acquired by Rackspace in 2013. Host of the Access Control Podcast. 2008 product design graduate of Middlesex University.

## Talks
Conference talks watched and given, with detailed summaries, key quotes, and slide photos.

- [BSidesSF 2026 Overview](/talks/bsidessf-2026/): Notes from 6 security talks at BSidesSF 2026
- [Authorization Service - Roblox](/talks/bsidessf-2026/authorization-service/): How Roblox built Guard, a centralized auth control plane using Topaz and OPA
- [Risk and Threat Modeling](/talks/bsidessf-2026/risk-threat-modeling/): Business approach to risk and threat modeling from SoundCloud
- [The Epistemology of Trust](/talks/bsidessf-2026/epistemology-of-trust/): Shifting from breach prevention to breach cadence and ecosystem resilience
- [The Great Credential Caper](/talks/bsidessf-2026/credential-caper/): AI-powered credential stuffing, CAPTCHA solving, and layered defense
- [Tyranny of Optimization](/talks/bsidessf-2026/tyranny-of-optimization/): AI's impact on bug bounties, labor, and policy
- [AI Agent Production Access](/talks/bsidessf-2026/ai-agent-production-access/): Lethal trifecta framework for securing AI agents — sandboxing, tool proxies, transcripts

## Blog
Posts on product, security, infrastructure, homelab, and IoT, going back to 2006.

- [AI. Finally, a Reason for My Homelab](/blog/ai-homelab/): Running local AI workloads on a homelab with an RTX 4000
- [Using a Raspberry Pi as a home network Bastion Host](/blog/iot/ssh-home-bastion-with-RPi/): Converting an old Raspberry Pi into a home bastion with Teleport Community Edition
- [Joining Gravitational](/blog/me/joining-gravitational/): Why Ben joined Gravitational (now Teleport) in 2019

## Podcast
- [Access Control Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/access-control/id1563475803): Hosted by Ben Arent — conversations about how teams provide secure access to infrastructure.

## Contact
- Site: https://benarent.co.uk
- GitHub: https://github.com/benarent
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benarent/
- X: https://x.com/benarent
- Teleport author page: https://goteleport.com/learn/author/benarent/