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Paul Arah
Software Engineer & Community Advocate @ Isovalent, part of Cisco
Paul Arah is a Software Engineer and Community Advocate at Isovalent, part of Cisco, where he works on eBPF, Kubernetes networking, and runtime security. His work spans the Cilium and Tetragon communities, combining hands-on engineering with technical writing, documentation, and developer education.
Through talks, workshops, blogs, and live demonstrations, Paul helps developers and platform teams understand how these technologies work and apply them in practice.
Talks & videos
Conference talks, workshops and livestreams
- Talk 10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Maintainer Track · Amsterdamslides
- Talk 10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 · Maintainer Track · Atlantaslides
Writing elsewhere
Articles published on other sites
- Article Hardening Tetragon's gRPC API with Tetragon ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Taming the AI Double Threat with Isovalent Runtime Security ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Tetragon 1.7: Precision filtering, richer context, and better performance ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Migrating from Falco to Tetragon: A Guide for Transitioning Your Runtime Security Stack ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Tetragon: An End-of-Year 2025 Reflection ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Securing the Modern Process with Tetragon: Runtime Security for the Cloud-Native Kernel ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Linux Kernel Fundamentals for Effectively Writing Tetragon Tracing Policies ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Securing the Node: A Primer on Cilium's Host Firewall ↗ Cilium blog
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- Article Installing Cilium on EKS in Overlay (BYOCNI) and CNI Chaining Mode ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Installing Cilium on EKS in ENI Mode ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Application-Aware Security Policies with Cilium Layer 7 Network Policies ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Why Tetragon Should Be Standard in Every Kubernetes Cluster: The Missing Runtime Security Layer ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Sinad User Story: Delivering Security and Observability for Workloads with Confidence ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Tetragon User Story: Why This Social Networking Company Made Tetragon a Default for their Kubernetes Clusters ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Cilium at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 and CiliumCon ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Tetragon: 2024 in Review ↗ Cilium blog
- Article Telemetry to Tactics: Tetragon Through the Lens of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Tutorial: Using The Network Policy Editor (Part 3) ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Tutorial: Cilium Network Policy in Practice (Part 2) ↗ Isovalent blog
- Article Introduction to Cilium Network Policies (Part 1) ↗ Isovalent blog
Blog
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