OSS Summit 2023

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I had the opportunity to attend the OSS Summit 2023 in Vancouver, BC. Probably the easiest conference I've ever attended, travel-wise, as it was about three hours door-to-door. Contrast that to Red Hat Summit in Boston, which is about 12 hours door-to-door.

The conference was great, I believe there were …

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... And a pelican in a pear tree

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For a number of years, since getting more and more into management, I've had less time to do any real programming. So a highlight of the year, for the first few years at least, was to take time during the Christmas break to do some work, mostly on this blog …

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Interview: When is it secure enough?

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I had the awesome opportunity to interview professor Daniel Gruss and one of his PhD students, Martin Schwarzl, a while back and the article recently was published in the Red Hat Research Quarterly magazine. For those who don't know, Daniel was one of the folks behind the discovery of the …

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Risk-based vulnerability management

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For much of this year I've been advocating for a risk-based vulnerability management approach, rather than the "industry standard" checkbox-based approach. I've been talking to customers, both directly and at various events (such as Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat Summit Connect in Dallas, directly with customers in Singapore …

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Controlling software supply chain security will require new tools, automation and vigilance

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Recently I had the opportunity to join a few other Red Hatters to talk about software supply chains with SiliconAngle. They did a writeup "Controlling software supply chain security will require new tools, automation and vigilance" that was great and included the full series of videos.

The interview I did …

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Curated, tested and supported: How enterprise vendors mitigate open source supply chain risk

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Published on the Red Hat blog, noting here that Curated, tested and supported: How enterprise vendors mitigate open source supply chain risk was posted yesterday. It's an article that talks about supply chain risk and associated costs -- after all, no software is truly "free" (which is why we prefer the …

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