OWASP Monthly Meeting - October 28, 2015

Topic: DevSecOps http://www.devsecops.org/

Speakers: Shannon Lietz

Shannon Lietz is an award winning innovator with over two decades of experience pursuing advanced security defenses and next generation security solutions. Ms. Lietz is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where she is responsible for setting and driving the company’s cloud security strategy, roadmap and implementation in support of corporate innovation. Previous to joining Intuit, Ms. Lietz worked for ServiceNow where she was responsible for the cloud security engineering efforts. Prior to this, Ms. Lietz worked for Sony where she drove the implementation of a new secure data center and led crisis management for a large-scale security breach. She has founded a metrics company, led major initiatives for hosting organizations as a Master Security Architect, developed security software and consulted for many Fortune 500 organizations. Ms. Lietz holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Mary’s College.

Our Sponsor: Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that today’s stack of virtual servers, shared storage and networks could be radically simplified and unified through software innovation to dramatically increase scale-out performance while driving down complexity and cost. The founders of Pivot3 applied their virtualization and storage RAID expertise to invent software defined storage. This led to the development of the patented vSTAC (Virtual Storage and Compute) operating system that runs on x86 commodity hardware and embeds server virtualization deep into the shared storage layer.

There is a number of vendors in the Hyper-converged space and Gartner is projecting this space to grow to 17 billion dollar market in the few years. The ability to converge the CPU/MEMORY/VM/Storage into a single appliance is a very cost effective way to delivery application performance and a cost saving platform for DR services in your data center or in the cloud.

Pivot3 is unique to the market in several ways including:
Market leader in Global HCI infrastructureDelivered over 13000 appliances world wide support enterprise, VDI and video surveillance storage.Over 1300 customersDelivered this technology since 2003.VDI Rapid Deployment Certified with VMWARE- Horizon Pivot3 customers rely on purpose-built appliances for high-capacity video surveillance and high-IOP virtual desktop environments. The company is the leading supplier of IP SANs to the video surveillance market and most recently became the first partner certified in VMware’s Rapid Desktop Program for virtual desktops. Customers rely on Pivot3 for simplicity, scalability and savings.

Pivot3’s global hyper-convergence solutions break the longstanding trade-off between available storage capacity and data protection. Through Scalar Erasure Coding, we provide the highest levels of fault tolerance and the highest storage efficiencies at a cost far below that of local hyper-convergence providers. And because our vSTAC OS software is fully tested and configured with factory install options, it’s ready to go out of the box, saving significant time and resources for our users.