Red Hat SummitIn today's financial institutions, safeguarding the software supply chain against cybersecurity threats has become paramount. Security breaches are inevitable, and enterprises often grapple with where to start and how to balance innovation with the pressing need to protect software from malicious threats. Open Source software, while essential to modern development, demands rigorous diligence to ensure the integrity and trustworthiness of code. Managing software builds and materials (SBOMs) is crucial for overseeing software releases, patches, and vulnerabilities, yet the sheer volume of software in use can be overwhelming.
Join IDC and Red Hat as we discuss the challenges of security in the software supply chain, best practices for approaching this, and Red Hat’s real-world use cases for securing the software supply chain using RH OpenShift, OpenShift Platform Plus, Developer Hub/Trusted Software Supply Chain, and Ansible for infrastructure-as-a-service.
Discuss how Platform Engineering provides a role for end-to-end security
Make Security and Compliance Frictionless
Create golden paths to Ensure Safe and Secure Releases at Scale
Live event date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | 1 p.m. ET
On-demand event: Available for one year afterward.
Jim Mercer
Program Vice President,Software Development, DevOps & DevSecOps
Jim Mercer is a Program Vice President managing multiple programs spanning application lifecycle management (ALM), modern application development and trends, emerging generative AI software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, open source, PaaS for developers, and cloud application platforms. His focus areas are DevOps and DevSecOps Solutions research practices. In this role, he is responsible for researching, writing, and advising clients on the fast-evolving DevOps and DevSecOps markets. Mr. Mercer’s core research includes topics such as rapid enterprise application development, modern microservice-based packaging, platform engineering, GitOps, application security, software supply chain security, and automated deployment and lifecycle/management strategies as applied to a DevOps practice. In addition, he examines how the move to DevOps methodologies impacts enterprise use of open source and preferences for using on-premises computing and development platforms vs. public cloud services. Further, He examines how organizations prioritize DevSecOps and use automation to insert security assessments into the DevOps delivery pipeline (i.e., shift left). Mr. Mercer advises Senior IT, business, and investment executives globally in creating strategy and operational tactics that drive the execution of digital transformation and business optimization.
Leon Mathews
Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, Emerging Technology, App Services and Hybrid Cloud, FSI
Leon has more than 20 years of experience in various development and technical pre-sales roles. With over 5 years in the Kubernetes space and helping customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, modernize legacy applications and help them take full advantage of modern Application Platforms. He is an avid coder, using Java, Go and C/C++, and truly enjoys helping customers solve real-life problems.
