Day in a Life of the DevSecOps Professional

This is a live event, with interactive discussions and technical demos with cyber-security experts from RedHat, Snyk and Portshift discussing the modern role of DevSecOps. They'll address the challenges teams face in their daily activities to ensure secure development, testing and deployment of containerized applications in OpenShift clusters.

The speakers and attendees together will explore a DevSecOps journey from the beginning, starting early in development with the tools needed to secure development at this stage. We’ll continue with a look at the automated pipelines of continuous integrations (CI) and deployments (CD), where images are built and turned into containers. We’ll explore how these containers are being deployed in OpenShift clusters and the security best practices required to reduce the risk potential and malicious manipulation potential.

Speaker:

Jay Yeras MS, Head of Cloud & Cloud Native Solution Architecture, Snyk

Jay is a subject matter expert in building highly technical cloud architectures and a thought leader for strategic initiatives that enable organizations to embrace digital transformation. He is an accomplished technologist and inventor. Prior to Snyk, Jay worked for Amazon Web Services where he served as global technical lead for DevOps. His passion for efficiency, process-driven development and automation permeates his family life as he is often found organizing kitchen cupboards for optimal use or setting up Alexa skills much to his wife’s dismay.

Ariel Shuper, Vice President of Product Management at Portshift Security

Ariel Shuper specializes in cloud native security solutions for containerized micro services. In his daily job Ariel focuses on Portshift's cyber security platform, working with customers and community users to address new security challenges related to container deployments in multiple environments. Prior to Portshift, Ariel worked on serverless functions security as an entrepreneur and then at Aqua Security where he led the serverless security product offering and other innovative cloud native technologies such as containers sandboxing. Prior to that Ariel spent 5 years in various roles at Check-Point Technologies, focusing on security posture and network security in public clouds. He previously also led the product management team of Mellanox.
Ariel has previously spoken at events such as CNCF KubeCon NA, MSFT tech summits and various technical events.

Dave Meurer, Principal Solution Architect on the Red Hat Global Partner Security ISV team

Dave Meurer owns technical relationships and evangelism with security independent software vendor partners of Red Hat. Before joining Red Hat, Dave spent 9 years in the Application Security industry with Synopsys and Black Duck, where he served in similar roles as the director of technical alliances and sales engineering. Dave also worked for Skyway Software, HSN.com, and Accenture in various management and application development roles. When he’s not thinking about k8s, security, and partners, he enjoys being the VP Sales of North Central Tampa for his wife (the CEO) and 5 kids (Inside Sales). Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter at @davemeurer. He mostly just posts pictures of homemade pizza.

Kirsten Newcomer, Director, Cloud and DevSecOps Strategy, Red Hat

Kirsten works closely with Red Hat’s many security professionals across the Red Hat portfolio of enterprise-ready open source offerings. Kirsten is a diversified software management professional with 15+ years of experience in application development and infrastructure solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Kirsten provided strategic direction for Black Duck’s open source security and governance solutions. Her career has spanned successful roles at IBM Software Group, Rational Software and BMC Software. Kirsten was an early contributor to the Linux Foundation's Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification, which provides a set of standards for communicating the components, licenses, and copyrights associated with software. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and dancing with her husband.