Unconference: Software Security & Risk Management

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Session

Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down

Tuesday Mar 17 / 10:35AM GMT

When you hear “governance,” you might think of red tape, bureaucracy, or someone telling you what you can’t do. But real governance is about alignment and reducing technical risk. And that matters more than ever.

Speaker image - Sarah Wells

Sarah Wells

Independent Consultant and Author

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Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime

Tuesday Mar 17 / 11:45AM GMT

In Minecraft, every world is built from blocks. At the very bottom lies bedrock: an unbreakable foundation that everything else rests on. Above it sit layers of stone, dirt, sand, and other materials.

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Alex Zenla

Founder & CTO @Edera

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From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work

Tuesday Mar 17 / 01:35PM GMT

In this talk, Viktor will walk you through everything you need to know to build a practical and future ready SBOM strategy.

Speaker image - Viktor Petersson

Viktor Petersson

Founder of sbomify, Co-founder & CEO of Screenly, Host of Nerding Out with Viktor

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Catching Attacks in the Act: eBPF for Runtime Security

Tuesday Mar 17 / 03:55PM GMT

Since the SolarWinds attack and the Biden-era cybersecurity executive order, much of the security industry’s energy has gone into preventing attacks in the software supply chain, before software is ever deployed. That work matters — but it is not enough.

Speaker image - Liz Rice

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer @Isovalent at Cisco, Ex-Governing Board at CNCF and OpenUK, Emeritus Chair, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, eBPF, Security, Cilium, Cloud Native

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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI

Tuesday Mar 17 / 05:05PM GMT

This talk will describe how CHERI achieves memory safety for existing code with just a recompile and how that non-bypassable memory safety can be used as a building block for higher-level security abstractions.