Pete Chestna

Title: Securing Generation DevOps – The Cloud Developer

Abstract: Requirements on developers has shifted over the last 5 years. Team sizes are shrinking but responsibilities are growing with DevOps and accelerated SDLC. A Cloud developer must become fluent in software architecture, testing, deployment, telemetry and even security. It is less about multi-layer and more about multi-discipline.

In this talk, Pete Chestna, CISO of North America for Checkmarx will share updates to the insights that he first shared over 4 years ago. We will discuss how the opportunities and accountability afforded to developers needs better support from employers and the security vendor community. There will be practical advice to rise to the challenge.

What you will learn:

1.The change in responsibility and ownership that has occurred in application development.

2.The gap that exists in the support system that is impacting your velocity.

3.What developers and development / security leaders should do to better enable teams to succeed?

Bio: Pete Chestna serves as the CISO of North America at Checkmarx, where he provides customers and prospects with practical advice for building successful application security programs. Bringing more than 15 years of direct AppSec practitioner experience, Pete has held roles ranging from developer and development leader to his most recent position as the Global Head of AppSec for the Bank of Montreal.

Over the years, Pete has led organizational transformations from Waterfall to Agile to DevOps and from monolith to microservice architectures. He is certified as both a scrum master and product owner. Stemming from his experience as both an avid practitioner and consultant, Pete has spoken internationally at numerous prominent security and developer conferences including DevOpsDays, All Day DevOps, OWASP AppSec, and DevSecCon.

Pete has been granted 3 patents. He enjoys whiskey tourism, astronomy, model rocketry and listening to Rush in his spare time.