Brian Kenyon, D2iQ | D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 07/11/2019

Brian Kenyon, Chief Strategy Officer, D2iQ, talks with Jeff Frick at D2iQ HQ in San Francisco, CA.

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https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/26/no-free-puppy-how-d2iq-helps-customers-navigate-open-source-journey-in-cloud-native-world-d2iq/

Expertise in security

In addition to helping organizations with the challenges of cloud-native deployment, D2iQ also believes that its solutions will address another critical need: expertise in using open-source tools.

“People move on to the next thing and the next thing in the open-source community,” Kenyon noted. “Organizations that want to leverage innovation, want to focus their operations on open-source — whether for cost savings or time to market — find themselves a couple of years later looking at code that’s been abandoned.”

This challenge was spotlighted in the security field when the Heartbleed vulnerability was injected into the OpenSSL crypto library and discovered in 2014. The virus exposed encryption keys by weakening the security of the internet’s most common protocols of SSL and TSL.

Security researchers scrambled to patch the vulnerability in 2014, but there are still unpatched systems today.

“For one of the largest SSL libraries used across the entire security landscape, there were two people in the world maintaining that code,” Kenyon said. “We want to stop that now for organizations that want to use open source.”