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  • DevOps Connect at RSAC 2021: Insightful Talks, Live Q&A, Workshops, Pilates and More

    DevOps Connect at RSAC 2021: Insightful Talks, Live Q&A, Workshops, Pilates and More

    We are excited to announce the return of DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit on May 19, as part of the RSA Conference 2021. This year, internationally recognized speakers will take a deep dive into “Securing the Cloud Native World.”

    DevOps Connect is a full-day event, featuring four different content tracks, with more than 50 speakers, including keynote presentations, demos, insight talks and featured sessions.

    The agenda features a mix of topics, including cloud security, CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitOps, AppSec, security risks, shift left, open source, case studies covering DevSecOps and more. Attendees will learn how the finance, manufacturing, healthcare and hospitality industries are securing their cloud environments, and how to better secure and monitor their systems.

    DevOps Connect 2021 Lineup

    DevOps Connect 2021 features an exceptional lineup of the most prominent and respected security and DevOps leaders, including:

    • Featured keynote speaker: Christopher Krebs, former director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and co-founder of Krebs Stamos Group LLC
    • Chenxi Wang, founder and general partner at Rain Capital
    • Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce
    • John Willis, senior director of Global Transformation Office at Red Hat
    • Cyndi Gula, managing partner at Gula Tech Adventures
    • Alessandro Vozza, principal software engineer at Microsoft
    • Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt
    • Thomas Krane, principal at Insight Partners
    • Charles J. Kolodgy, principal at Security Mindsets LLC and analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group
    • Nisha Kumar, open source engineer at VMware
    • Mike Rothman, president at DisruptOps
    • Dave Howell, VP at ZeroNorth
    • Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager at WhiteSource
    • Matt Wilson, senior product manager at GitLab
    • Erkang Zheng, founder and CEO at JupiterOne
    • Philippe Humeau, CEO at CrowdSec
    • Jennifer Czaplewski, director of product security at Target
    • Al Sargent, senior director of product at InfluxData

    Former CISA director Christopher Krebs, our featured keynote speaker, will be answering questions from the audience during a live Q&A.

    Workshop Friday

    We are also hosting Workshop Friday, as we wrap up the RSAC 2021, offering live workshops designed to be as interactive and hands-on as possible with experts from Google, JupiterOne, Sysdig and Sonatype. These workshops provide professional guidance and training on a variety of topics, including Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS cloud security and protecting against supply chain attacks. On May 21, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the experts, share their process, get immediate feedback and personal assistance. Each workshop will be live-streamed through our online platform at no cost to attendees. We have limited spots available. Seats are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. To save your spot, visit the Workshop Friday website.

    A Unique Virtual Environment and a Few Surprises

    The virtual environment features an auditorium with different tracks where attendees can watch the sessions by industry experts. There will be an expo hall lined with booths featuring interactive chats and downloadable resources. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with sponsors, including GitLab, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Sonatype, WhiteSource, Sysdig, JupiterOne, Snyk and more.

    We have a few surprises planned to make this year’s DevOps Connect extra special. Take a break between presentations, grab your yoga mat and enjoy a Pilates class by a certified instructor, dance to the music of our featured DJ and check out how to make a delicious cloud drink by a professional mixologist. You can also participate in a raffle to win a copy of “You Can Stop Stupid” by Ira Winkler, author and president at Secure Mentem, and a copy of “Security Yearbook 2020” by Richard Stiennon, industry analyst at IT-Harvest.

    DevOps Connect 2021 offers the best of a physical environment in a virtual context combined with the advantages and convenience that a virtual environment offers.

    Registered attendees will receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand. To check out the full agenda and to register, visit the DevOps Connect website.

  • The Time for Collaborative Security Is Now

    The Time for Collaborative Security Is Now

    As Bruce Schneier famously said, “security is a process, not a product.” We commonly see companies pour millions of dollars into cybersecurity products and tools to protect against vulnerabilities and lower risks, and yet, more often than not these ample funds are not enough to defend against attacks. 

    Within the span of two decades, we have seen how social power can be leveraged to benefit the masses with applications like Waze, Airbnb, Uber and many others. This same innovative idea could revolutionize the way the cyber world operates by giving security professionals the edge in identifying potential threats. 

    CrowdSec CEO Philippe Humeau recognizes the capabilities of crowd power to invigorate the cyber realm. The community firewall created by CrowdSec uncovers thousands of malicious IP addresses worldwide and helps cripple hacker behavior before it can evolve into major cyberattacks and data breaches. Additionally, the start up just announced it raised $5 million to help take the collaborative firewall to the next level as they work to transform the cybersecurity landscape. 

    In the interview below, Philippe emphasizes the benefits of collaborative, open and transparent security environments in tipping the scales against the hacking dilemma that plagues companies across the globe. 

    Join Philippe at DevOps Connect 2021 on May 19, during the RSA Conference, where he expands on this topic in his session “The Age of Collaborative Security.” Also, learn more about CrowdSec and see a demo of the tool during his spotlight session, “Introducing CrowdSec, The Open-Source Massively Multiplayer Firewall.”

    To see the full agenda and secure your free spot at the virtual event, visit the DevOps Connect website.

  • How to Bring DevOps and Security Teams Closer Together

    How to Bring DevOps and Security Teams Closer Together

    More often than not, there seems to be friction between DevOps and security teams. Despite having the same end goals of creating the most secure code and preventing any potential security pitfalls, these groups of professionals often lack the unity needed to accomplish these end goals effectively and efficiently. 

    In the interview below, Naomi Buckwalter, director of information security and IT at Beam Technologies, addresses this issue and outlines key ways development and security teams can come together to better accomplish their shared missions. She stresses the importance of security professionals reaching out a hand to their DevOps counterparts to teach them how to be security-forward when writing code. However, she highlights how not every security expert has a developer background, so it really takes these two groups of skilled tech specialists working in unison to fill those knowledge gaps for each other.

    Naomi brings over 20 years of IT and security experience to her upcoming session “Six Things Developers Want From InfoSec,” at DevOps Connect 2021, during the RSA Conference. She will expand on some of the key topics discussed in this interview during her talk on May 19 at 4 p.m. EDT.

    To see the full agenda and secure your free spot at the virtual event, visit the DevOps Connect website.

  • Live Fireside Chat with Christopher Krebs: How to Combat Disinformation

    Live Fireside Chat with Christopher Krebs: How to Combat Disinformation

    We live in a digital world where most information is now found online. This makes it increasingly difficult to verify the veracity of information. Threat actors have been taking advantage of the digital landscape to spread disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories to manipulate the public and sow doubt, discord and chaos. How can we distinguish between fact and opinion, truth and supposition? How can we spot fake news and tackle disinformation?

    Former Director of the Department of Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Co-Founder of Krebs Stamos Group, Christopher Krebs, will be speaking about disinformation at this year’s DevOps Connect: DevSecOps on May 19 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. During his keynote session, Krebs will explain what disinformation is, how to recognize fake news and the challenges disinformation poses to cybersecurity teams. He will reveal effective ways to combat disinformation, and how public and private partnerships can help. Krebs will also be answering questions from the audience during the live Q&A session.

    Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, and previously served as the first director of the federal CISA for two years. Before that, he served in various roles at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience issues. He has also directed U.S. cybersecurity policy for Microsoft and advised industry and government clients on complex cybersecurity and business risk matters while serving in positions with Obsidian Analysis and Dutko Consulting.

    DevOps Connect: DevSecOps has been part of the RSA Conference for six years in a row. This year, the main focus of the event is on “Securing the Cloud Native World.” Krebs has joined a stellar lineup of DevOps, cybersecurity and IT thought leaders as the DevOps Connect 2021 featured keynote speaker. Attend his live session, “Disinformation: As Dangerous as Cyber and Physical Threats,” and check out all the other breakout sessions to learn more about cloud security, DevSecOps, cybersecurity threats—such as disinformation—and more.

    For more information and to register for free, visit the DevOps Connect 2021 website. Save your spot today and learn how to better secure, monitor and maintain the security of your systems.

  • Christopher Krebs to Keynote in Live Fireside Chat/Q&A Session at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference 2021

    Christopher Krebs to Keynote in Live Fireside Chat/Q&A Session at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference 2021

    Former Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to headline free one-day event

    Boca Raton, FL, April 26, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced that Former Director of the Department of Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, will be its keynote speaker at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps, a free one-day virtual event to take place on Friday, May 19, during the week of RSA Conference 2021. For the keynote session, Krebs will participate in a live fireside chat with MediaOps Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel, which will also include questions fielded from attendees.

    “I am excited to have Chris headline our DevOps Connect: DevSecOps security event at RSA Conference this year. His experience in both the public and private sector of managing risk to businesses and government agencies, enabling them to defend themselves against cyber and physical threats is impressive. Chris probably knows as much about election security and working in a public-private partnership to safeguard our critical infrastructure as anyone. I look forward to an engaging discussion with him,” said Shimel.

    Krebs is a founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, and previously served as the first director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for two years. Before serving as CISA Director, Krebs served in various roles at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for a range of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure and national resilience issues. Prior to his time at DHS, he directed U.S. cybersecurity policy for Microsoft and advised industry and government clients on complex cybersecurity and business risk matters while serving in positions with Obsidian Analysis and Dutko Consulting. Finally, he also served in the George W. Bush Administration, advising DHS leadership on domestic and international risk management and public-private partnership initiatives.

    Krebs holds a Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

    For the sixth year in a row, DevOps Connect: DevSecOps is again part of the RSA Conference. Each year, MediaOps puts together a line-up of internationally recognized speakers to bring security and DevOps professionals the best in peer-to-peer knowledge exchange. In addition to keynote speaker Christopher Krebs, this year’s event features a powerhouse lineup of 30 cyber DevSecOps experts.

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    About MediaOps

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

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  • Bridge the DevSecOps Experience Divide with Cross-Functional Teams

    Bridge the DevSecOps Experience Divide with Cross-Functional Teams

    Last week’s DevOps Connect event at RSA Conference offered up a ton of wisdom and real-world examples of the power of DevSecOps. With its best-ever attendance after several years and impressive participation levels, this year’s event stands as a good harbinger for the growing interest that the security community has in vesting itself in the DevOps phenomenon.

    But there’s still a lot of work to do in helping security professionals shift their mindsets and fully understand what DevSecOps is all about. Questions from the audience offered evidence of some of the trepidation and misconceptions that still exist in the security community.

    For example, after one of the first talks of the day, an audience member asked about a typical point of confusion for those new to DevOps—namely, the misunderstanding that the melding of disciplines and the requirement that DevOps team members flex their skills across traditional IT boundaries also means that everyone in IT must be renaissance men and women with a range of in-depth knowledge about all IT specialties.

    “Not everyone can know .NET, not everyone can know Python, not everyone can know firewalls,” the audience member said. “I’ve been doing this a long time and it takes a lot to become an expert in any one of these categories. And yet I’m hearing, ‘Oh, everyone needs to know it all.’ They can’t, so how do you deal with that?”

    This was a valuable question to revisit here, because the response from one particular speaker offers up an extremely important tenet that everyone in the DevSecOps world needs to keep in mind. The answer came from Paula Thrasher, a longtime DevOps evangelist in one of the hardest spaces to implement cutting edge IT processes: federal IT. As she explained, one of the biggest success criteria for a successful DevSecOps transformation is the ability to build fully engaged cross-functional teams. Individuals working within the DevOps are not meant to know everything. Rather, different specialists need to be paired up so the complete team has that full body of knowledge at its fingertips.

    “It’s the fidelity of your collaboration within the cross-functional team that makes this successful,” explained Thrasher, who is director of digital services for General Dynamics, a large federal IT integrator.

    For example, she pointed to one particular team she has seen in her work that is the epitome of a solid cross-functional team.

    “My teams all have mascots, and so one of our teams is the Tigers. The best quote I’ve heard from a team about this topic came from a new employee who said, ‘If one Tiger knows it, they all know it,’” she said. “This is a team that has a crazy diverse background—there’s developers, there’s ops people, there’s a former networker on there—and it doesn’t require everyone on that team to know everything. They collaborate so well that if there’s a network vulnerability, the network guy knows it and tells everybody.”

    This is the why Thrasher sees cross-functional teams that include security people as a big success criteria for DevSecOps.

    “I usually say the first thing should be if your teams aren’t cross-functional, start with that. You don’t have to change anyone’s boss, you don’t have to change anything else about who you report to, but make sure your teams represent all of the skills you need to deliver,” she said.

    Not only will the teams be able to deliver on all of the necessary skills when they’re working as a unit, there’s also an ancillary benefit: In the process, they’ll be training each other, and each team member will end up gaining a more diverse set of skills—and perhaps become renaissance men and women in the process.

    “They might have been a graduate of a cyberprogram and they’re next to a graduate of a CIS-type program and they’re next to a math major and they’re next to a hardware engineer, and they’re all kind of new because they’re recent graduates, but they’re learning with each other and we’re going to train them with some more senior engineers that we self-select to be good mentors,” she said. “This is how you are giving people the skills to work with this next-generation of automation and technology, both in the security realm and the Ops realm and the Dev realm.”

    — Ericka Chickowski

  • MediaOps, Inc. Expands Executive Leadership Team to Drive Growth and Audience Reach

    Producer of devopsy.kinsta.cloud and other Premier Tech Communities Capitalizes on Rapid Growth of Cloud, DevOps, and DevSecOps

    Boca Raton, FL, (June 13, 2017) – MediaOps, Inc., producer of leading technology brands and destinations such as devopsy.kinsta.cloud, DevOps Connect, DevOpsTV, DevOps Chat and Container Journal, today announced the appointment of two executives to the company. Joining MediaOps are Saleem Padani as Chief Operating Officer, and Deborah Schalm as Director of Marketing Operations and Customer Delivery. The appointments strengthen MediaOps’ leadership as the company scales to expand the rapid growth of its supporting communities.

    “We believe that MediaOps has a great opportunity to expand its audience, influence, and reach due to the ascendency of emerging technologies and disruption in the traditional tech media industry. Saleem and Deb bring technical and marketing expertise to their positions and the company,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “These talented individuals, both with great track records of success, will enable us to further drive audience engagement and provide seamless user experience across all our digital properties.”

    Saleem Padani

    Mr. Padani joins MediaOps from IBM, where he managed worldwide DevOps portfolio marketing with a focus on hybrid cloud, methodologies, security, enterprise systems and C-suite conversations for specific industries. He managed relationships with internal and external media outlets as well as clients and business partners, led social media strategy, events, and content marketing in support of broad marketing campaigns. As a tech industry veteran, Mr. Padani’s background includes prior roles as co-founder, software engineer, architect, and consultant with early-stage technology companies.

    Deborah Schalm

    Ms. Schalm has an extensive background in media and marketing having served in marketing positions at Time Inc., Hearst, Wall Street Journal Office Network, Inc. Magazine, and others. She brings valuable expertise in integrated marketing, sales development, client management, and marketing operations. She will manage several areas of delivery including digital marketing initiatives, digital libraries, and webinars, working with MediaOps advertisers to deliver valuable, educational and compelling integrated content to its audience.

    About MediaOps, Inc.

    MediaOps is a premier global media platform for technical communities including DevOps, Security and Containerization. Its brands, which include devopsy.kinsta.cloud, DevOps Connect, DevOpsTV, DevOps Chat and ContainerJournal.com, attract and engage a thriving online community of technology professionals around the world. Resources include award-winning editorial, creation of high quality custom content supporting all stages of the buyer’s journey, from awareness to decision, multi-media production and distribution. As the leader in these emerging segments, MediaOps’ properties include powerful, integrated marketing and communication platforms to help clients maximize their campaign ROI and paid media investments.

    For more information, visit devopsy.kinsta.cloud.

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    If you would like more information, please contact Deb Schalm at 203-979-9412 or email deb@devops.com.

     

  • REP SPOTLIGHT: Daysha DevOps Solutions

    REP SPOTLIGHT: Daysha DevOps Solutions

    DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha DevOps Solutions is a leading IT services and solutions company focused on helping companies to deliver their IT projects, transform their capabilities and ultimately to provide value to their customers and stakeholders. Our goal is to help organizations benefit from disruptive technologies, such as cloud computing, Lean/Agile software development and DevOps. We work across a range of industries including financial services, government, aerospace and high-tech.

    Daysha DevOps Solutions has partnered with the best-in-class product vendors to help organizations improve their ability to deliver software quicker, more frequently, with higher quality and less risk. Our DevOps solutions address all stages from project planning right through to deployment.

    DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha bring proven expertise and consults across the wide domain of DevOps. Partnering with vendors such as Atlassian, App Dynamics, Chef and Zephyr, we offer expertise, training and tooling to support all aspects of the DevOps journey.

    Our IT Project Services team consists of experienced IT consultants including project managers, technical experts and business analysts. These can be deployed to help augment your existing IT teams or to provide specific project help, such as requirements gathering, gap analysis and process improvement.

    DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: The interest in DevOps is growing, though to be honest, a lot of organizations are wary of it. That said, the same organizations are heavily rooted in traditional waterfall environments. There is a recognition that DevOps is the way forward but also a realization that cultures need to change first.

    DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream?

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: Primarily by delivering value earlier and increasing the visibility of the IT contribution to the business stream.

    DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: How business can get more value from IT. In other words, turning an IT department into a revenue-generating tool rather than a cost.

    DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training?

    Daysha DevOps Solutions: It is the first step, and a certified first step, on the road to improving the value of IT functionality.

  • REP SPOTLIGHT: Glenfis AG

    REP SPOTLIGHT: Glenfis AG

    1. Tell us a little about your organization: Based in Zurich, we offer consulting and training services since almost 20 years. We see ourselves as an independent enabler for the digital transformation, helping our customers getting fit for the digital age. To this end, we use the ‘Glenfis Principle’ – a holistic approach that, alongside theoretical knowledge, attaches particular importance to the mediation of practical skills (competence), which can be used to successfully and lastingly deploy this knowledge in the company or organisation (Implementation).
    2. What other topics do you teach or consult on? Topics include:
      – Cloud & Sourcing
      – Lean, Agile & DevOps
      – Value Chain Service Models
      – Training and Awareness (Cloud, ISO, ITIL, Cobit, Security, Agile, DevOps)
      – Security & Cyber Resilience
      – Change Enablement
    3. What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region? As everywhere the interest of DevOps is rapidly growing, in Switzerland this in not different. For many it’s really to understand in a first step what DevOps is about and why it is relevant for them. In Switzerland we deal a lot with financial institutes with a high level of legacy and regulations, the question is often how to apply DevOps practices in such an environment.
    4. How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream? DevOps is all about getting faster and better and this is how it positively influences the value stream. And DevOps does it in a holistic way by looking at the value stream end-to-end, from idealization to $$$.
    5. What topic area in DevOps excites you the most? Dev’s and Ops’ finally talking to each other!
    6. Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training? Before starting any change initiative, it is paramount that everybody gets a common understanding. This is especially true for DevOps, as it includes a wide range of Agile, Lean and ITSM practices. A training or special awareness sessions definitely facilitates this.
  • REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services

    REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services

    DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

    Xellentro: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP is an emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management, IT service management consulting and training services. Established in 2012, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. Xellentro is a specialist organization that works with its clients to identify improvement areas and uses experienced consultants to enhance their business and development processes.

    While the realm of management consulting is vast and a number of firms provide a range of advisory services—starting from niche areas to general management domains—what differentiates us is our practitioner’s approach where we don’t limit ourselves only to advisory and rather prefer to stay on till envisaged benefits are realized and final outcomes are delivered. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals.

    DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

    Xellentro: ITIL Foundation, Intermediate, Practitioner, Expert, Scrum Master and Product Owner, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, PMP, Lean Six Sigma

    DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

    Xellentro: There is interest mainly from corporates.

    DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’s value stream?

    Xellentro: This will be a good extension to the ITSM and with Agile being used everywhere, DevOps will have a great value.

    DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

    Xellentro: The concept of having both Development and Operations working together is very important to finally deliver value to business.

    DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

    Xellentro: To really understand the culture change and not focus on only the tools/automation part of it.