Derek Weeks

Derek serves as vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype and is the co-founder of All Day DevOps -- an online community of 65,000 IT professionals.

You Can't Manage What You Can't See: Open Source Governance Starts with Visibility

By Derek Weeks on December 17, 2018 open source goveranance

2 minute read time

During the interview, Richard Spires, former CIO at the Internal Revenue Service and now CEO of Learning Tree International, said one of the biggest takeaways.
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Equifax was 100% preventable -- But 18,000 others at risk

By Derek Weeks on December 17, 2018 vulnerabilities

2 minute read time

Karpovich reflected on findings from the House report that the breach at Equifax was 100% preventable -- as the vulnerability at the root of the breach was one.
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The Path of DevOps Enlightenment for Infosec

By Derek Weeks on November 20, 2018 Devops

4 minute read time

Can security, as an industry, rise to the demands of DevOps? Is the DevOps culture able to handle security and all of its baggage? At this year's Nexus User.
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A DevSecOps Maturity Model in 7 Words

By Derek Weeks on November 04, 2018 devsecops

2 minute read time

Inspired by a conversation I had with Navin Vembar about a DevSecOps Maturity Model his organization developed at the U.S.
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5 Quick Wins for Securing Continuous Delivery

By Derek Weeks on October 04, 2018 Continuous Delivery

6 minute read time

At the 2018 Nexus User Conference, Jim Bird, CTO of BiDS Trading, laid out 5 quick ways to secure continuous delivery.
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A DevSecOps Journey at a Dutch Bank

By Derek Weeks on October 03, 2018 devsecops

3 minute read time

This is the story of ABN AMRO’s DevSecOps journey - as told by Stefan Simenon and Widbe de Roos at the 2018 Nexus User Conference.
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Three Days of DevSecOps: Lessons from Equifax

By Derek Weeks on September 25, 2018 open source governance

2 minute read time

In 2017, one might have considered "three days" to be the new normal for lead time for changes in DevSecOps. In 2018, that window closed to "one second".
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The 2018 State of the Software Supply Chain Report is here!

By Derek Weeks on September 25, 2018 devsecops

2 minute read time

Today, Sonatype introduces the 2018 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, on managing open source components to accelerate innovation.
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A Simply Brilliant Way to Improve the Security Pipeline

By Derek Weeks on September 06, 2018 Nexus IQ

2 minute read time

Kaiser Permanente's Xin Xu shares how his team eliminates vulnerable libraries before they ever enter the DevOps pipeline, using Nexus.
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