Tim Mackey is a principal security strategist within the Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center). He joined Synopsys as part of the Black Duck Software acquisition where he worked to bring integrated security scanning technology to Red Hat OpenShift and the Kubernetes container orchestration platforms. As a security strategist, Tim applies his skills in distributed systems engineering, mission critical engineering, performance monitoring, large-scale data center operations, and global data privacy regulations to customer problems. He takes the lessons learned from those activities and delivers talks globally at well-known events such as RSA, Black Hat, Open Source Summit, KubeCon, OSCON, DevSecCon, DevOpsCon, Red Hat Summit, and Interop. Tim is also an O'Reilly Media published author and has been covered in publications around the globe including USA Today, Fortune, NBC News, CNN, Forbes, Dark Reading, TEISS, InfoSecurity Magazine, and The Straits Times.
It has been just over a year since president Biden issued executive order 14028 (EO) to improve the nation’s cybersecurity posture. Despite the Log4j vulnerability and a worldwide increase in ransomware attacks, ...
On May 12, 2021 President Biden issued Executive Order 14028, also known as the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This EO covers a lot of ground, and like all executive ...