Don is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and successfully exited two companies – Universal Lightspeed and Gigabit Optics. As an engineer, he holds over 20 patents. Don also co-founded and functioned as CFO of Biz Productionz and Clark Entertainment, both in the Boxing Promotions Industry, where the city of Oakland, California awarded him the key to the city and announced Don Clark & Clark Entertainment Day October 16, 2004 for bringing “Live Boxing back to Oakland”. Don is an active investor in technology and real estate, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Application Security
At AppCurity we’re attacking this problem by building the Next Generation of Application Security Enablement products for agile microservices development that fills the gaps previously discussed, addresses common critical pain-points, simplifies complex workflows and extends the value of trusted enterprise security solutions. We do this by first understanding the needs of agile development teams that build microservices in a DevOps ecosystem.
Consumer & Enterprise Security
Helping organizations to properly test and patch microservice RESTful APIs through Swagger-based Dynamic Application Security Testing and Virtual patching, critical to securing APIs. AppSwag (Standard) allows you to Test and Patch APIs
Risk Management
We identify critical gaps, such as poor security engagement in microservices development which then leads to lack of security requirements for development teams as they build microservices. The lack of automated Static & Dynamic Security Testing (SAST&DAST) of RESTFul APIs as part of the CI/CD Pipeline with Pass/Fail feedback for Development teams and lastly inadequate real- time vulnerability alerting to development teams for open source code. These critical gaps all lead to risk ridden microservices being deployed to production exposing the business to significant risk. These are just a few examples out of many where security is failing to provide value for microservices development teams in DevOps.
Threat Protection
Traditional security tools, solutions and processes were not built or designed to support agile microservices development in DevOps. They lack the capabilities necessary to support rapid microservices development. By incorporating our security enablement products for microservices development we extend the value of traditional security tools and solutions affording them to now support key requirements necessary to support agile face-paced microservices development in DevOps. Our security enablement solutions are ushering in the Next Generation of Application Security empowering development teams and finally allowing security to yield significant value when it’s really needed early on in the development lifecycle.
