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FinConDX: Leveraging DevOps in FinTech
The FinTech industry has experienced remarkable growth during the last couple of years as consumers increasingly turn to online shopping and contactless payments. Financial services organizations are adopting DevOps practices to enable faster software releases, improve quality and fulfill customer expectations. On Dec. 9, financial services and tech leaders will come together at FinConDX Virtual Event to discuss the latest and most effective DevOps, DevSecOps and digital transformation practices and tools you need to thrive in the FinTech industry.

The agenda for FinConDX features a mix of topics, including continuous security and continuous compliance best practices, value stream management, secure development in highly-regulated industries, source code security in financial services, threat detection, incident response, software supply chain attacks, cloud security, emerging technologies and modernization tools.

FinConDX features a stellar lineup of industry experts, including:
- Ravi Lachhman, field CTO at Shipa
- Simon Maple, field CTO at Snyk
- Dan “Pop” Papandrea, director, Opensource Community and Ecosystem at Sysdig
- Ravi Yadalam, head of product for cloud optimization at Harness
- Eric Carter, director of product marketing at Sysdig
- Maurice Evans, director of product management at BluBracket
- Jeff Keyes, VP of product marketing and strategy at Plutora
- Ronen Slavin, CTO and co-founder at Cycode
- Andrew Fife, VP of marketing at Cycode
- Edwin Kwan, application and software security, security advisory at Tyro Payments
- Sanjeev Sharma, SVP, head of Platform Engineering at Trust Bank
- Colin Wynd, head of Real Time Payments Technology at The Clearing House
- Mitch Ashley, CTO, principal at Techstrong Group, Techstrong Research
The virtual environment features five session tracks, live chats, raffles and prices, entertainment and an exhibit hall lined with booths showcasing the latest solutions from leading DevOps companies. In the exhibit hall, attendees will have access to downloadable resources provided by our partner sponsors.

Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand once the live event is over.

To see the full agenda and to register, please visit the FinConDX website.
November 29, 2021
Q&A: Database Security in Financial Services with Yaniv Yehuda

As financial institutions are adopting DevOps best practices to speed up application delivery the database remains the stumbling block causing delays, introducing risks, slowing down release cycles and wasting valuable internal resources. At the same time, compliance and audits are managed manually, complicating the process even further.

It is time to bridge the gap between the database and the CI/CD process in order to achieve faster release cycles and simplify compliance, security and auditing.

Yaniv Yehuda, co-founder and CTO at DBmaestro, answered a few questions regarding security challenges in the financial industry and DevOps.

Yaniv is one of the distinguished speakers presenting at this year’s FinConDX Virtual Summit. During his session “Database Devops For Financial Industry: Security And Audit,” Yaniv will take a deep dive into DevOps best practices and the issues related to the database.

What are some of the main challenges financial industries are facing when it comes to security and the database?

In the modern world you need to move faster, you need to automate, but at the same time you need to bring security to the front. You can’t deal with security and compliance after the fact, it is just going to slow everything down. As everyone is trying to accelerate, compliance and security must be baked into the process. What the financial industry is looking for is a way to make sure security and compliance are dealt with automatically, while at the same time aiming for the productivity and process improvements when dealing with data. What financial institutions are struggling with is how to set up processes and procedures in their day to day while achieving compliance and security as a byproduct, instead of generating additional workloads.

How can DevOps help? How does financial services companies benefit from DevOps?

DevOps is a way to build the process and the communication between the stakeholder and all the technologies in order to automate the processes. Once you automate the process you can plug in your documentation, your policies and your pre-checks to prevent things from breaking. It’s not a person who does this – it is a process.

What can we expect from your session?

Understanding DevOps best practices, how they apply to the database and what DBmaestro offers out of the box to achieve end-to-end automation that includes the database.

To learn more about database security and DevOps in the financial services industry, attend Yaniv’s session at FinConDX on Dec. 3. To check out the full agenda or to register for free, visit the FinConDX website.

December 1, 2020
FinConDX: The State of DevOps in FinTech
The FinTech space has grown dramatically this year as more consumers shift their financial transactions online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Financial services companies are learning how to ship better code, faster by adopting DevOps methodologies. DevOps helps companies develop fast, fail fast and learn fast so they can fulfill customer expectations and deliver quality features faster to market than their competitors. However, the shift to DevOps is not that easy.

The digital transformation journey for banking and financial services organizations can be quite challenging. That is why, on Dec. 3, the top financial services and tech leaders in the industry will come together at the FinConDX Virtual Summit, a free virtual conference focused on the DevOps, DevSecOps and digital transformation practices and tools you need to thrive in the FinTech industry today.

FinConDX features a stellar lineup of industry experts, including:
- Yaniv Yehuda, co-founder and CTO at DBmaestro
- Viktor Farcic, principal DevOps architect at Codefresh
- Sladjana Jovanovic, vice president of payments technology, TD Bank Group
- Shannon Lietz, director of DevSecOps at Intuit
- Sanjeev Sharma, senior vice president, head of automation and platform engineering at Truist
- Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer at IBM
- Don Duet, CEO and co-founder at Concourse Labs
- Ravi Lachhman, chief evangelist at Harness
- Matt Wilson, senior product manager at GitLab
- Mitchell Ashley, CEO and founder at Accelerated Strategies Group
- Keith Murphy, senior solutions architect at OutSystems
- Jonathan Smart, partner, business agility lead at Deloitte
- John Rzeszotarski, senior vice president of technology infrastructure at PNC
- Dan Garfield, chief technology evangelist at Codefresh
- Gary Gruver, CEO at Gruver Consulting and analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group
The virtual environment features auditoriums with different tracks where attendees can watch the sessions by industry leaders and an exhibit hall lined with booths showcasing the latest solutions from leading DevOps companies. In the exhibit hall, attendees can download resources and interact with partner sponsors including Codefresh, GitLab, WhiteSource, DBmaestro, Harness, Traceable, OutSystems and more.

Breakout sessions and panel discussions will fall under following topics:
- Leading digital transformation
- Emerging technology
- Security and audit
- Modernization tools
Attendees can participate in a scavenger hunt throughout the virtual environment for a chance to win amazing prizes. Participants earn points by visiting booths, watching sessions, downloading resources, networking with speakers in the chat and finding hidden objects in the environment.

Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand for a limited time once the live event is over.

To see the full agenda and to register, please visit the FinConDX website.
November 19, 2020