Author: J.C. Herz

J.C. Herz is the COO of Ion Channel, a cloud-based provider of software supply-chain assurance, DevOps security automation and continuous monitoring for large enterprises and federal agencies.

From the Fall 2017 Issue

16 Tons of Technical Debt: An Operational Perspective on Security Automation

Author(s):

J.C. Herz, COO, Ion Channel

In September of 2017, Equifax announced that extremely sensitive data, including social security numbers and driver’s license information, had been exfiltrated by hackers via the Apache Struts framework used to develop the credit rater’s website – a framework that powers thousands of large enterprises’ websites as well. Given the scope of the damage enabled by … Read more