AppSec Today Roundtable: SBOMs: A Roadmap for a Secure Software Journey

Mitchell Ashley is a renowned strategist and technology executive. Mitchell has led successful IT, SaaS, and cybersecurity transformations. He’s led multiple teams in developing and bringing to market successful online services, cybersecurity, and networking products and services. Mitch serves as Principal of Techstrong Research where he leads a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, and cybersecurity. In this role, Mitch works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high impact results. Mitch is in high demand as a speaker at conferences the world over, and his popular DevOps Chats podcast engaging with digital leaders is one of the most widely followed in the field.

Daniel Bardenstein is the CTO and co-founder of Manifest, a venture-backed software supply chain company allowing enterprises with end-to-end SBOM management. With Manifest, organizations can easily automate the entire lifecycle of an SBOM, from generation, aggregation, enrichment, analysis, reporting, and sharing. Prior to founding Manifest, Daniel served as the Chief of Tech Strategy at CISA, where he drove technology modernization and OT/ICS strategy across the agency, and led the development of the Cybersecurity Performance Goals. At the Defense Digital Service, he led cybersecurity programs across the Department of Defense, including securing the COVID-19 vaccines and the Hack the Pentagon program. Before joining government. Daniel was also a Tech Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and is the co-President Foresight Partners, a non-profit that provides free cybersecurity support to political campaigns. He holds several security certifications as well as a patent.

Jeff has spent over 15 years in Product roles helping both the organizations he worked for and their customers transform and measure their business processes, Development, and QA. He especially enjoys cultural and mindset transformations for their ability to create lasting progress.

Dmitry is a Canadian-Israeli entrepreneur and cybersecurity professional who has been around the technology ecosystem for over two decades. Dmitry’s specialty is in the area of application security, cloud architecture, DevOps, DevSecOps, and automation of cyber-defense mechanisms. Dmitry co-founded Cybeats in 2016. In late 2018 Dmitry joined the NTIA group that worked to shape the SBOM standard. In 2020 Dmitry invented the SBOM Studio solution to help Enterprises consume and manage SBOMs. To give back to the cybersecurity community, Dmitry co-founded the Security Architecture Podcast during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Today Dmitry is leading the innovation, technology, and product in Cybeats as CTO and participates in various working groups to define the future of SBOM, VEX, CSAF.

Dr. Lisa Bradley is the Senior Director of Product & Application Security at Dell Technologies focusing on Vulnerability Response, Customer Security and Community Enablement. In this role, she oversees Dell's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), Bug Bounty Program, SBOM, and third-party Dependency Management. She also oversees Dell’s Security Champion Program, Security Training Program, and the Customer Security team where she strives to meet Dell’s customer security needs and build customer trust into the core of product and application security practices.