About
Application security has never been easy, but more recently it’s gotten much more complicated. It used to be about finding vulnerabilities in code. But as applications have gotten more complex, development teams have gotten bigger, and business has gotten faster, finding – and fixing – vulnerabilities in applications requires more from CISOs and security teams.
Presenters
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Cody J. Brown
Host - Techstrong Learning
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Amit Daniel
CMO, CheckmarX
Amit Daniel is the Chief Marketing Officer at Checkmarx, heading marketing strategy and execution to support the company’s continued growth. She is a marketing leader with over two decades of experience working with global high-tech companies in multiple sectors and at various stages in their life cycles.
Before joining Checkmarx, Amit worked as CMO of Cognyte, a leading global investigative analytics software company. She led teams of marketers and business development experts responsible for strategy, product marketing, regional marketing, sales enablement, employer branding, internal communications, demand management, and more.
She has also held leadership positions in marketing, product management, and partner sales at several B2B companies.
Amit holds an MBA degree from Northumbria University, UK.
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Sudharma Thikkavarapu
Global Head of Product Security, Dell Technologies
Sudharma Thikkavarapu is a visionary technology leader driving digital culture across all levels in the organizations to transform, challenge the status quo, and simplify the current processes and practices. He has 25+ years of proven leadership experience successfully leading technology and Security functions for Fortune 100 companies. Sudharma’ s unwavering focus on protecting and enabling the business has allowed him to be successful in leading and influencing high-value transformative efforts in the field of Information technology, Product Security, and Cybersecurity.
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David Sims
Staff Vice President, Security Technology Services, Elevance Health
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Mitch Ashley
CTO, Techstrong Group Principal - Techstrong Research
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.
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Cindy Blake
CISSP, DevSecOps Market Advisor
Cindy Blake is past VP of Marketing at Firefly, a seed-funded start-up aimed to solve many of the challenges of using and managing multi-cloud infrastructure in a DevOps environment. Blake is adept at leveraging AI and on focusing marketing investments on efforts that result in revenue Growth. Prior to Firefly, Cindy was Director of Product Marketing at GitLab, a leader in the DevOps market. Blake was instrumental in leading GitLab’s integrated DevSecOps, growing that business more than 10x over 4 years and through IPO.