Sairam Bollapragada

Sairam is the Global Delivery Head, Micro Focus.
Sairam is an innovative IT Digital Strategy Leader with a futuristic approach, carrying extensive international experience, journeying through the yesteryear legacy technologies into the latest path breaking Digital emergence.
His inimitable style of leadership, combined with his sharp focus on Digital Customer Experience has helped businesses generate healthy P&Ls, managing cost and associated risks successfully.
In his career spanning 25+ years, he has been instrumental for several turnarounds and large business transformations.
Sairam is an outstanding people manager, with an entrepreneurial style of management that reflects a blend of enthusiasm and dynamism, which has created several high performing teams and successful second-line Digital Leaders. Many of the leaders mentored by him have come back to work with him, again and again, to sustain the learning experience in the high demanding environ he creates.
He is also an invited member of the Board of Studies for Computer Science & Systems Engineering at select few academic institutions.
An invited guest delivering talks on Digital and IoT to various organizations, large seminars, colleges.

Samir Pathak

Accomplished Program Manager Information security with 13+ years of overall experience in security, technology, and business functions, working to secure data, intellectual property, and other corporate assets.
Working knowledge of industry security frameworks such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST Cyber Security Framework.
Working knowledge and expertise in Data & Application Security, IAM, SOC, SIOC, SIEM, VAPT, UEBA, Security Analytics using ML/AI.
Security tool development: researching, planning, and implementing new tool features to make security tools more effective and add value proposition.
Program Manager at Micro Focus Professional Services (formerly Hewlett Packard Enterprise SW Professional Services) for 8+ years.
Innovative, profit-oriented Technical Program Manager with demonstrated success in increasing revenues, market share and earnings, achieving cost reductions and improving client satisfaction in customer-facing operations and large diverse organizations.

Businesses today rely on data and applications to interface with customers and partners. There’s been tremendous growth in the number of web and mobile applications that businesses have to support, along with an increasing frequency of releases and complexity of code as developers try to meet the demand by utilizing open source and commercial code in addition to custom code.

In recent Application Security Research Update, we saw a 30X deployments of apps over last year, and the apps are getting more complex with 83% of them utilizing open source components in addition to custom code and COTS.

To keep up with the increasing demand, many businesses are adopting DevOps as the preferred approach for rapid development and continuous delivery of applications. DevOps offers IT organizations improved speed of development by embracing a collaborative approach between development and operations. However, in most cases, security has been an afterthought to DevOps.

While 99% of development organizations believe that DevOps is an opportunity to improve application security, only 20% actually perform application security during the development according to a recent survey.

As a result, 80% of applications today contain at least one critical or high vulnerability. It’s no surprise that the Department of Homeland Security found that 90% of security incidents are from exploits against defects in the design or code of software. Development teams growing at an 80:1 ratio to the security teams. Security teams aren’t able to keep up.

DevSecOps is the answer to integrating these challenges into a coherent and effective approach to software delivery.

Key Takeaways:

Integrated framework to fix vulnerabilities faster and accelerate a mature DevOps program
Helping Developers to understand secure coding best practices and prevent vulnerabilities before check-in
Automated security enables faster feedback loops.