Adam Baldwin is head of security at npm Inc., the company that powers the world’s JavaScript. An information security professional with over 24 years of experience, Adam has spent his career building companies, breaking into companies, managing teams, designing products and talking about security non-stop. Previously, Adam founded ^Lift Security, a successful application security and penetration testing service company, and the Node Security Platform, an initiative to track vulnerabilities in the JavaScript ecosystem. The project evolved into a SaaS platform at the forefront of the continuous security movement. Both were acquired by npm, Inc. in early 2018.
A recent npm survey revealed that 77 percent of developers were concerned about the quality and security of the open source libraries they use, while 52 percent said the tools currently available ...