Open-Source Software: Balancing Innovation and Security with Ilkka Turunen, CTO of Sonatype

Episode Summary

Ilkka Turunen is the CTO at Sonatype, a company that helps millions of software developers use open-source software while minimising security risk. In this conversation, Ilkka chats with Cole Cornford about the benefits and risk of using open-source software, how Maven helped standardise software development processes, the different approaches to AppSec regulation in Australia and Europe, and plenty more.

Timestamps

1:33 - Ilkka's career background

4:00 - Varying quality of open-source software

6:10 - How Maven helped standardise software development processes

13:00 - The balance between speed of delivery & quality

17:00 - Importance of environment parity in software dev

21:40 - Risk of using 3rd party code in software

25:10 - Regulation of AppSec in Australia vs Europe

32:10 - How new European software security regulations will be enforced

35:00 - Recommendations for compliance with European regulations

39:00 - Rapid fire questions

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