Josh Corman, Director, Security Intelligence, Akamai Technologies
Gene Kim, Researcher and Author
Cloud IT velocity is breathtaking: while most IT struggle with monthly releases, agile IT businesses routinely conjure thousands of AWS servers, performing over 10 deploys per day. This agility delights the business and terrifies security. DevOps aligns the former adversaries of Dev and Ops. Security needs to enable ludicrous speed or be left behind. We make a case for Rugged DevOps as an answer.
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oshua Corman is Director of Security Intelligence for Akamai Technologies. Corman has more than a decade of security experience, most recently serving as Research Director for The 451 Group. His research cuts across sectors to the core challenges of the industry, and drives adaptive strategies amidst changing landscapes. He is a candid and highly coveted speaker and has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, ISACA, SANS, DEFCON, and ShmooCon – and was recognized by NetworkWorld as a top Influencer of IT for 2009. As a staunch advocate for CISOs, he serves as a Ponemon Institute Fellow, as an IANS Faculty, and
co-founded www.ruggedsoftware.org. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
Since 1999, Gene Kim has been studying and benchmarking high performing IT operations and information security organizations. When Kim was the CTO/founder of Tripwire, he wrote the “Visible Ops Handbook,” which codified how these organizations transformed from “good to great,” which has sold over 200K copies to date.
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