Author: David Penn

FinDEVr Live: Gem Leverages the Blockchain to Redefine Banking from the Ground Up

FinDEVr Live: Gem Leverages the Blockchain to Redefine Banking from the Ground Up
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Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Gem

Gem_homepage_FinDEVr2015

gem.co | blog.gem.co | @gemhq

Gem_FinDEVr2015_logoGem makes bitcoin easy by allowing developers to build feature-rich blockchain applications in minutes using less than ten lines of code. By leveraging industry-leading security features such as multisignature wallets, multifactor authentication, and hardware security modules, the Gem API provides an easy-to-use, comprehensive security solution for bitcoin apps, without ever taking possession of funds. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to have control over their own assets, starting with bitcoin. Founded in 2014, Gem launched at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield and is located in Venice, Calif.

Redefining banking from the ground up
Bitcoin and its underlying technology, the blockchain, triggered a fundamental shift in the way we think about money. The blockchain is redefining age-old practices around payments, custodianship, stock- and asset-issuance, auditing and settlement. And for the first time, it has created an open financial platform that invites any developer from around the world to participate and innovate, without permission. Learn how you can use blockchain technology and the Gem API to build a whole new generation of financial products both inside and outside of the traditional banking system.

Key takeaways:

  • How programmable money and smart contracts can redefine ownership and custody
  • How to secure digital assets from hackers and would-be thieves
  • How practical tools can quickly get you building with the blockchain

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Presenter: Micah Winkelspecht, CEO, Founder
@winkelspecht | micah@gem.co

Winkelspecht is CEO of Gem, a secure platform for blockchain developers. He is an active bitcoin thought-leader and author of MoneyTree, the first Ruby implementation of a bitcoin HD wallet. Previously, Winkelspecht spent 10+ years developing software for AT&T Interactive, Guide Financial, and Pose.

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FinDEVr Live: Arxan Technologies Protects Apps and Data on Mobile Devices from Emerging Risks

FinDEVr Live: Arxan Technologies Protects Apps and Data on Mobile Devices from Emerging Risks
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Categories: Arxan Technologies, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

Arxan_homepage_FinDEVr2015

arxan.com | @Arxan

Arxan_FinDEVr2015_logoArxan offers solutions for software running on mobile devices, desktops, servers, and embedded platforms—including those connected as part of the internet of things (IOT)—and is currently protecting applications running on more than 400 million devices across a range of industries.

Mobile payments: Protecting apps and data from emerging risks
It is possible to protect sensitive data and transactions while implementing progressive mobile payments technology and preserving the customer experience! Join security expert, Sam Rehman, CTO of Arxan, to understand emerging techniques hackers are using to attack mobile payment applications and related cryptographic keys, and the latest techniques developers can leverage to protect their payment applications and cryptographic keys.

Key takeaways:

  • Mobile app payment landscape
  • How criminals can attack your payment app
  • Comprehensive protection techniques

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Presenter: Sam Rehman, CTO
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Rehman joined Arxan in May 2015 with the mission to shape technical direction and drive innovation. Rehman is a proven technology evangelist and leader with 25+ years of experience in both leading product development and professional services companies.

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FinDEVr Live: Hypori’s VMI Moves Fintech Mobile Apps to a Secure, Virtualized Cloud

FinDEVr Live: Hypori’s VMI Moves Fintech Mobile Apps to a Secure, Virtualized Cloud
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Hypori

Hypori_homepage_FinDEVr2015

hypori.com | @Hypori_Inc

Hypori_FinDEVr2015_logoHypori’s virtual mobile infrastructure platform—VMI—shields enterprises from the risks of BYOD while providing a rich, responsive end-user experience, and a more secure, cost-effective, compliant solution for any organization. The highly scalable and flexible infrastructure helps commercial and public sector organizations bridge the gap between mobile productivity and mobile security.

Hypori’s platform can deliver any unmodified mobile application as a secure service on iOS and Android devices. It’s the only approved solution for accessing mobile apps on the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSFC) and can enable access to any mobile app as the ACE platform takes responsibility for all Common Criteria-mandated security capabilities, absolving the mobile app of these requirements. Hypori’s Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) platform allows enterprises to keep data and applications in the data center, while providing end-users with a secure and rich, mobile-first experience.

VISA Corp. and Hypori recently demonstrated a Point of Sale as a Service solution leveraging the ACE Platform at FinovateFall in New York City, including a remote access to Bluetooth PoS peripherals.

Key takeaways:

  • Hypori’s architecture for virtual mobile infrastructure
  • VISA case study for leveraging Hypori’s platform for securing mobile point-of-sale terminals
  • Overview of how Hypori’s platform can be used to secure other banking and finance applications on mobile devices

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Presenter: Sanjay Challa, Product Manager
LinkedIn | sanjay.challa@hypori.com

Challa is a senior product manager with 6+ years’ experience. Previously at National Instruments, Challa has had the opportunity to work with a diverse set of technologies and explore a variety of different markets globally.

Brian Kuwahara, Senior Director, Visa

 

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FinDEVr Live: Aerospike Applies High-performance NoSQL for Better Outcomes in Fraud Detection

FinDEVr Live: Aerospike Applies High-performance NoSQL for Better Outcomes in Fraud Detection
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Aerospike, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

Aerospike_homepage_FinDEVr2015

aerospike.com | aerospike.com/blog | @aerospikedb

Aerospike_FinDEVr2015_logoAerospike helps businesses achieve the speed, scale, and availability required to manage the real-time transactional workloads of modern, mission-critical applications. The Aerospike high-performance NoSQL database is a key value-store written explicitly to run in RAM and Flash to deliver speed at scale. Our technology, also available in open source, includes tools and packages designed to help developers build next-generation applications without worrying about low-level programming. Gartner named Aerospike a visionary in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Leading innovators in financial services trust Aerospike to power web-scale workloads.

To learn about how internet companies such as adtech, retail, and social have built real-time decision and pricing systems based on stateless compute nodes and a fast, scalable NoSQL data-layer. This new stack allows access to more data (petabytes) and supports, agile, innovative algorithms and libraries that are allowing fintech companies to build vastly better offerings.

Key takeaways:

  • When to use NoSQL vs. SQL
  • How to model data in NoSQL
  • Hardware costs of NoSQL data-layers

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Presenter: Brian Bulkowski, CTO , Co-Founder
LinkedIn | @bbulkow | brian@aerospike.com

Bulkowski, co-founder and CTO of Aerospike, has 20-plus years experience designing, developing, and tuning networking systems and high-performance web-scale infrastructures. He founded Aerospike after learning firsthand the scaling limitations of shared MySQL systems and realizing the need for a high-performance database that would empower all developers.

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FinDEVr Live: Interxion Presents a European Fintech Success Story of Quants in a European Cloud

FinDEVr Live: Interxion Presents a European Fintech Success Story of Quants in a European Cloud
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Interxion

Interxion_homepage_FinDEVr2015

interxion.com | @interxion

Interxion_FinDEVr2015_logoInterxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of cloud and carrier-neutral co-location data center services in Europe, serving a wide range of customers through 37 data centers, in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centers offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With more than 500 Connectivity providers and 20 European internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created cloud, content, finance, and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest.

Quants in a European cloud
Interxion and Sayula will present a European fintech success story. We start with the co-located foundation infrastructure necessary to meet European demands and progress to Sayula’s open development-framework platform and added open-source components allowing Vontobel to meet their needs for a shared structured-derivatives valuation platform.

Key takeaways:

  • Social Mobile Analytics in the Cloud applied to Quants
  • How to build a shared and modular valuation platform
  • European challenges for Fintech Infrastructure

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Presenters:

Bill Fenick, Strategy & Marketing Director, Interxion

Fenick has two decades-plus of financial services industry experience in data distribution and trading technologies, managed services, co-location and hosting. Prior to Interxion, Fenick worked at Thomson Reuters and Tibco. He holds a doctorate from University of Vienna, a master’s from Webster University in Vienna, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Daniel Mueri, COO, Sayula

Mueri earned his master’s (Cornell University) and bachelor’s (Rutgers University) degrees in electrical engineering. He has twenty years’ experience in market data and trading systems, and is an innovator and competitor in both his professional and sporting activities.

Cristian Alzati, CTO, Sayula

Alzati has more than twenty years of software development experience in the financial industry. Before founding Sayula, he designed a server-based spreadsheet system that stayed more than 20 years in production at UBS. Alzati holds master’s and engineering degrees from Stanford and a master’s in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon.

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FinDEVr Live: Nexmo APIs Use the Cloud to Decrease Fraud, Secure Transactions, and Protect User Identity

FinDEVr Live: Nexmo APIs Use the Cloud to Decrease Fraud, Secure Transactions, and Protect User Identity
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Nexmo

Nexmo_homepage_FinDEVr2015

nexmo.com | nexmo.com/blog | @nexmo

Nexmo_FinDEVr2015_logoNexmo is the global cloud communications platform leader providing innovative communication APIs and SDKs for voice, text, messaging and phone-verification services. Nexmo enables applications and enterprises to communicate with their customers reliably and with ease, no matter where in the world they are located. Companies such as Alibaba, Airbnb, LINE, and Viber send millions of messages per month using Nexmo APIs. Nexmo was recognized by analyst firm Gartner as a 2014 Cool Vendor in Communication Service and by Roaming Consulting Company as a Tier-1 A2P SMS Messaging Vendor in 2015.

Using the cloud to decrease fraud, secure transactions, and protect user identity
Online and mobile banking has come of age and consumers today are empowered with dozens of convenient ways to manage their finances online. However, securing transactions, protecting user identity and protecting both the financial institutions and consumers from an ever-increasing risk of fraud has not evolved. Most users do not follow the recommended practices for online security, and the fragmentation of online identities implies most of them repeat passwords across their different identities. Strong authentication in such scenarios is often cumbersome and makes for a bad end-user experience. In this session, we share how Nexmo’s APIs and SDKs can help you increase security, significantly decrease fraud and protect user identity, without compromising the end-user’s experience.

Key takeaways:

  • How phone number-based identifiers, coupled with phone-based verifications, can help businesses easily implement strong authentication to increase security, significantly decrease fraud and protect user identity, without compromising the end-user’s experience.
  • How you can quickly and easily integrate Nexmo’s powerful APIs into most fintech-app flows.
  • How to future-proof your engineering efforts by using best practices to be ready for scale from the start, regardless of the size of your user base.

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Presenter:

Eric Nadalin, CTO
LinkedIn | eric.nadalin@nexmo.com

Nadalin is the CTO and co-founder of Nexmo. He has managed teams in both the payments and messaging spaces for 18 years. His startup, iPIN, was acquired by Valista and integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Nadalin holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.

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FinDEVr Live: AppSHIELD SDK from SnoopWall Helps Defend Against Malicious Apps

FinDEVr Live: AppSHIELD SDK from SnoopWall Helps Defend Against Malicious Apps
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, SnoopWall

SnoopWall_homepage_FinDEVr2015

snoopwall.com | snoopwall.com/blog | @SnoopWallSecure

SnoopWall_FinDEVr2015_logoIt’s the year of mCrime (mobile crime), and all banking apps are easily eavesdropped on by ‘trusted apps’ that actually have malware allowed on iTunes, Google Play, and Microsoft App store. SnoopWall will present a live demo of this ‘breaking into my own banking account’ on mobile using a malicious Flashlight App. Then, you’ll learn about AppSHIELD SDK.

Increase adoption of your mobile app with AppSHIELD SDK
AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to this problem that works. We’ll show how IBM Trusteer SDK and INAUTH SDK and Arxan are easily circumvented by cyber criminals intending to steal consumer PII. If you see AppSHIELD SDK in action (in 95+ financial institutions), you’ll want it in your banking app to protect your consumers and your brand.

Key takeaways:

  • All mobile banking apps are insecure and hackable
  • Many trusted apps exploit these mBanking vulnerabilities
  • Our AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to make mBanking apps bulletproof against mCrime

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Presenters:

Gary Miliefsky, CEO
LinkedIn | @Miliefsky | ceo@snoopwall.com

Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, is the inventor of the company’s novel counterveillance technology. He has been extremely active in the INFOSEC arena: He is a member of ISC2.org, CISSP; and is an advisory board member of the Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime at Norwich University and DHS.gov.

Chris Gauthier, VP Engineering
securitysolutions@snoopwall.com

Gauthier is SnoopWall’s VP of engineering. He’s also the chief software architect for SnoopWall and co-inventor of the AppCrusher. He’s an early stage engineering team leader, hands-on coder, and passionate white-hat with a strong, ethical hacking background.

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FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax

FinDEVr Live: Avalara Helps Developers Navigate the Wacky World of Sales Tax
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Avalara, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

Avalara_homepage_FinDEVr2015

avalara.com | developer.avalara.com/blog | @avalara

Avalara_FinDEVr2015_logoSales tax is complicated, but Avalara makes it easy. Since 2004, our dedicated team of revolutionaries has worked day and night to help businesses of all sizes achieve compliance by providing a fast, easy, and accurate way to manage transactional taxes. Avalara’s API dynamically delivers instantaneous sales-tax decisions based on precise geo-location in more than 12,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S. Avalara’s API offers the ability to automatically assign hundreds of thousands of taxability rules and the latest jurisdiction—boundaries within your desired accounting, shopping cart, or point-of-sales system—to deliver the right rate and tax calculation.

The wacky world of sales tax
Transactional sales tax is not the easiest thing for an organization to tackle. With million of addresses, thousands of taxability rules and taxing jurisdictions involved, it can be a daunting task. We’ll take a whimsical look at some of the more interesting and bizarre sales-tax cases, look at the technology that Avalara has built to solve this problem, and take a deeper dive into the APIs that are available for developers.

Key takeaways:

  • Complexity of transactional tax explained
  • How APIs solve this problem for developers
  • Weird and wacky sales-tax scenarios

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Presenter:

Loke Uei Tan, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
LinkedIn | @lokeuei | lokeuei@avalara.com

Tan has been working in the evangelism capacity for a decade at Microsoft and most recently leads the developer team at Avalara, a cloud-based sales-tax-automation service. He brings with him an extensive knowledge in building and running a successful evangelism program in any modern organization.

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FinDEVr Live: Xignite Presents its Newest Financial Market Data API Technologies for Developers

FinDEVr Live: Xignite Presents its Newest Financial Market Data API Technologies for Developers
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Xignite

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xignite.com | resources.xignite.com/h | @xignite

Xignite_FinDEVr2015_logoNamed one of the 10 coolest brands in banking, Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based financial market-data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media, and software companies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits Streamdata.io, Wealthfront, and Yodlee, to leading financial institutions, exchanges and market data vendors including Nasdaq, SIX Financial Information, and BMO.

Hoverboards, driverless cars and streaming financial data – the future is now!
Attend this session to learn about the newest financial market data API technologies on the horizon. Attendees might even get a sneak peek at some unannounced Xignite products. Xignite’s key engineering team members will be joined on stage by several Xignite clients for a lively discussion of the future of API delivery.

Key takeaways:

  • Future API delivery technologies
  • Real-world application-discussion with robo-adviser and stock-trading app vendors
  • Sneak peak at unannounced technology

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Presenters:

Anand Viswanathan, Developer
LinkedIn | @anand_seph | aviswanathan@xignite.com

Viswanathan spearheads developer efforts at Xignite and is the creator of Xignite Labs. Prior to Xignite he held developer positions at Viagogo, Media Interface, and Network Design Lab, The Ladders and Michigan State University, where he also taught advanced programming. He is fluent in Hindi and Tamil.

Al Chang, CTO (not pictured)
LinkedIn | @xignite_al | achang@xignite.com

Chang is a fintech-industry technology expert. He has led engineering and professional services organizations in high-growth software companies, including Google, Oracle, Advent Software, and TenFold Corporation. Chang holds both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and a bachelor’s of science in biology from MIT.

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FinDEVr Live: Banking API from Kontomatik Helps Developers Build Better Financial Products

FinDEVr Live: Banking API from Kontomatik Helps Developers Build Better Financial Products
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Konto X, Kontomatik

Kontomatik_FinDEVr2015_homepage

kontomatik.com | kontomatik.com/blog | @Kontomatik

Kontomatik_FinDEVr2015_logoKontomatik presents a leading banking API. The service supplied by Kontomatik API is mostly aimed for the banks with competitive products: online lenders that are looking to optimize loan-issuing processes, and startups that want to build their apps around a supreme technology. Online credit scoring, instant KYC, and contextual financial offers are the key benefits supplied by Kontomatik API, yet the main service is the provision of tools that lets an organization become a true innovator in the financial industry. Kontomatik API is now available in Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and more countries to come.

Create financial industry 2.0 with banking API
Customers often choose unsuitable products because of lack of innovation. Until now. Banking API introduced by Kontomatik allows penetration of banking transaction systems, aggregation, analysis, and processing of data. This data is an opportunity for strong growth for the financial companies with attractive products. Our presentation will uncover the key benefits of the banking API, its application in the banking and financial sectors, scope of countries and future plans. Also, you will see exactly why the Kontomatik technology is a superior way to connect to the banks.

Key takeaways:

  • How to bring your services fully online
  • The main benefits of banking API
  • Emerging markets and technology

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Presenters:

Peter Hiekmann, VP Sales
LinkedIn | phiekmann@kontomatik.com

Hiekmann has been working in the financial and technology industries for more than 25 years. Prior to his work with Kontomatik, Hiekmann was improving the performance of such companies as Fujitsu, Cisco, BT Global Services, and more. Hiekmann recently climbed to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Marcin Truszel, CEO

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FinDEVr Live: Commerce Driver from EVO Snap Helps Make the EMV Shift Quickly and Securely

FinDEVr Live: Commerce Driver from EVO Snap Helps Make the EMV Shift Quickly and Securely
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Evo Snap*, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

EVOSnap_homepage_FinDEVr2015

evosnap.com | evosnap.com/blog | @canyousnap

EvoSnap_FinDEVr2015_logoAs the integrated payments division for EVO Payments International, EVO Snap* simplifies in-store, online, and mobile payment, making payments a Snap* for software companies and merchants. EVO Snap* is a one-stop shop for application integration, merchant underwriting, and payment processing. EVO Snap* offers single-integration access to omnichannel payment processing through one API and can instantly decision, board, and activate merchants.

Making the shift to EMV quickly and securely
The cost and complexity of managing EMV certification can quickly become overwhelming. There is a better way. Create EMV approved iOS, Windows, and Android-based point-of-sale (POS) applications in a snap with the Commerce Driver from EVO Snap. As with a printer-driver, the precertified Commerce Driver SDK installs alongside your software application, adding PCI-compliant transaction processing to iOS, Windows, and Android-based POS systems. The Commerce Driver facilitates all transactional communication with EVO’s global processing platforms and approved hardware devices and meets all EMV level 3 compliance requirements for payment processing in the U.S. and Europe.

Key takeaways:

  • How retailers can prepare for the EMV liability shift
  • How EMV impacts mobile POS (mPOS)
  • Increasing addressable global markets with standardized EMV solutions

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Presenters:

Peter Osberg, SVP U.S. Product and Worldwide Integrated Payments, eCommerce and Gateway Solutions
LinkedIn | peter.osberg@evopayments.com

Osberg, as SVP U.S. product, worldwide, is responsible for globally defining and executing EVO’s integrated software strategy.

Darren Adelgren, VP Product, Customer Care
LinkedIn | darrenadelgren@evopayments.com

As VP of product and customer care, Adelgren is responsible for defining and leading the product and integration strategy for EVO’s integrated payments group, EVO Snap.*

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FinDEVr Live: ScriptRock Provides Systems Integrity in the Age of DevOps

FinDEVr Live: ScriptRock Provides Systems Integrity in the Age of DevOps
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, ScriptRock

ScriptRock_homepage_FinDEVr2015

scriptrock.com | scriptrock.com/blog | @scriptrock

ScriptRock_FinDEVr2015_logoScriptRock is the brainchild of two longtime IT veterans who recognized a common problem inherent in IT and set out to build a solution. The result is a powerful configuration-integrity-monitoring platform in use by companies around the world. Thanks in part to the platform’s flexibility and scalability, ScriptRock has become integral to workflows in high finance, banking, healthcare, retail, and other industries.

Integrity in the age of devOps
The chips have fallen and devOps is here to stay, but many companies are still falling short in testing their infrastructure throughout the development cycle. Automation platforms like Chef and Puppet are great, but they’re not enough to guarantee systems integrity. See why continuous testing can mean the difference between profit and PR disaster.

Key takeaways:

  • Continuous delivery is great, but without proper testing, your project can quickly go off the rails.
  • How recent high-profile outages such as the NYSE, Apple’s App Store, and United Airlines could have been prevented.
  • Compliance monitoring doesn’t have to be a long, arduous, and expensive process.

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Presenter: Alan Sharp-Paul, Co-CEO, Co-founder
LinkedIn | @asharppaul

Sharp-Paul is an experienced veteran of corporate IT, a relentless entrepreneur, and a self-described perfectionist with an emphasis on usability, elegance, and efficiency. As co-founder of ScriptRock, he seeks to solve many of the problems that, until now, have been inherent to IT, and specifically devOps.

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