Secure Software, Inside and Out: Seven Steps

As a 40-year software industry veteran and 18-consecutive-year Gartner Magic Quadrant winner for data protection, Veritas Technologies constantly works to generate secure software. Leveraging CISA's 'Secure by Design' principles for developers, learn how Veritas incorporates people, processes, and technology to generate software products that are secure.

Incidents such as SolarWinds presented an inflection point for Silicon Valley. The supply chain, or sequence of tools and activities employed to produce software products, has come under intense scrutiny. In this presentation, we explain seven key phases of our SecDevOps process and how we employ chaos engineering to generate a robust product relied upon by 95% of global Fortune 100 companies.

1. 7 key steps in a mature SecDevOps process

2. How chaos engineering techniques yield a better software product:

  • 2A. The Veritas REDLab
  • 2B. How end users can validate secure code generation
  • 2C. How to 'stress test' software during multiple points of the build process

3. How to motivate technical teams - hint - role-playing, movie stars, and fresh content

4. Foundational guidance for secure software development - what's new

Joye Purser CISSP PhD

Dr. Joye Purser is a nationally recognized security leader and serves as Global Lead for Field Cybersecurity at Veritas Technologies.

In 2022, she was the first-ever senior executive Regional Director, in CISA Region 4, at the US Department of Homeland Security. Before that, she worked at Price Waterhouse Coopers, a big-4 management consulting firm; and she also served for 9 years at the Pentagon, including a stint at the White House overseeing the $93 billion defense research budget, where she galvanized the federal government to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain. She is the 2023 recipient of the ISC2 Harold Tipton Lifetime Achievement Award in Information Security.

Across industries and sectors, Dr. Purser's career has always focused on promoting innovation for the good of society.


Author profile pictureWalter Angerer

Walter Angerer is Senior Vice President for Engineering at Veritas Technologies, where he oversees the security of the company's software development lifecycle processes. Prior to that, he served as CEO of ParSec Labs and Quorum. He has a masters degree in applied physics.