Building Security Into the DevOps Lifecycle – Sumedh Thakar – PSW #666
DevOps has gained momentum over the years as its methods have been used by teams worldwide to accelerate application delivery. But where we continue to struggle is in integrating security into this workflow. In this discussion, Sumedh Thakar, president and chief product officer at Qualys, will talk with the Security Weekly Team about the importance of building security into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure the quality of code and to protect the application and data infrastructure. He'll talk about Qualys' own DevOps strategy and the lessons learned as his team built out the DevOps toolchain and how it integrated security best practices within the DevOps lifecycle. This segment is sponsored by Qualys.
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As CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. Since 2014, he has served as Chief Product Officer at Qualys, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24×7 follow-the-sun product team.
Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.
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