Why Companies Continue to Struggle with Supply Chain Security – Melinda Marks – ASW #283
Companies deploy tools (usually lots of tools) to address different threats to supply chain security. Melinda Marks shares some of the chaos those companies still face when trying to prioritize investments, measure risk, and scale their solutions to keep pace with their development. Not only are companies still figuring out supply chain, but now they're bracing for the coming of genAI and how that will just further highlight the current struggles they're having with data security and data privacy.
Segment Resources: Complete Survey Results: The Growing Complexity of Securing the Software Supply Chain https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/515201781/Toc
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Melinda Marks is the cybersecurity practice director at Enterprise Strategy Group, a leading IT analyst, strategy, and research firm, where she leads the cybersecurity analyst team and drives new research to provide insight on key cybersecurity topics and trends. Her coverage area includes cloud-native application protection platforms, cloud workload protection, cloud security posture management, DevSecOps, and application security, including web application security testing (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA) and API security. She has over 20 years of experience in tech marketing and strategy. Most recently, she was chief marketing and strategy officer for Soluble, a startup focused on automating application security testing for developers (acquired by Lacework). She was also VP of Marketing at Armorblox, VP of Marketing at Styra, and head of marketing for StackRox (acquired by Red Hat). Her experience includes running competitive/market intelligence and product marketing teams at Tenable and running global communications for four years at Qualys. She also has a background in infrastructure from working at VMware, where she ran their original customer reference program, and later ran US PR.
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