CI/CD Security Anti-Patterns and Antidotes

Michael Foster is the Community Lead for the open source StackRox project and Principal Product Marketing Manager for Red Hat based in Toronto. In addition to his open source project responsibilities, he utilizes his applied Kubernetes and container experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security to help organizations secure their Kubernetes environments. With StackRox, Michael hopes organizations can leverage the open source project in their Kubernetes environments and join the open source community through stackrox.io. Outside of work, Michael enjoys staying active, skiing, and tinkering with his various mechanical projects at home. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and CKAD, CKA, and CKS certifications.

Mitchell Ashley is a renowned strategist and technology executive. Mitchell has led successful IT, SaaS, and cybersecurity transformations. He’s led multiple teams in developing and bringing to market successful online services, cybersecurity, and networking products and services. Mitch serves as Principal of Techstrong Research where he leads a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, and cybersecurity. In this role, Mitch works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high impact results. Mitch is in high demand as a speaker at conferences the world over, and his popular DevOps Chats podcast engaging with digital leaders is one of the most widely followed in the field.

Michelle is a Principal Product Manager for Red Hat’s Trusted Profile Analyzer, part of Red Hat’s Trusted Software Supply Chain. She brings 15 years of experience designing, implementing and administering a wide range of Unix systems solutions for the financial industry. Having extensive experience working on and with security teams gives her a unique perspective on pain points developers, platform engineers and architects, and security teams face regularly. Currently, she is focused on bringing insight and innovation to Red Hat products in the software supply chain space. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Physics from Stony Brook University and a Data Science certification from the University of Waterloo.