SOSS Fusion

When people want to understand the vulnerabilities of our increasingly digital world, and how to protect their privacy within it, they turn to Bruce Schneier. Dubbed a “security guru” by The Economist, Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and best-selling author of over a dozen books – including his latest, Click Here to Kill Everybody, exploring the risks and implications of our new, hyper-connected era. He works at the intersection of security, technology, and people, and has penned hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers on these topics.

Dr. Carol Woody is principal researcher for the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute. She focuses on cybersecurity engineering for building capabilities and competencies to measure, manage, and sustain cybersecurity and software assurance for highly complex software-reliant systems and systems of systems. Dr. Woody coauthored a book Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance published as part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering.

Sebastian is a Staff Research Engineer at Lightning AI, focusing on implementing and training large language models. Before his industry experience, Sebastian was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he focused on deep learning research. You can learn more about Sebastian at https://sebastianraschka.com.

Megan is a software engineer at Defense Unicorns, focused on helping solve software challenges for the DoD. Her primary role is a developer on the Lula open source tool which enables faster and more robust evaluation of system compliance to various controls and standards.

Air Force Officer, long-time nerd, working to revolutionize software deliver for the DoD from the inside.

Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host of Open at Intel and co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. Previously, Katherine spent over a decade at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal contributor and engineer.

Laurent is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience in software development in the private and public sectors with extensive experience contributing to open source software. Since 2016, he has built and maintained Docker Official Images before joining Docker in 2023 to work on artifact security and software supply chain challenges.

Rao Lakkakula is Senior Director of Security Engineering at JPMorgan Chase with focus on developer security. Rao has 20+ years of expertise in security and software development with roles spanning from strategy, engineering, risk management, and business intelligence. His prior experience includes security leadership positions in Bayer, Amazon, and various startups. He also serves on the Board of Open-Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

Accomplished Information System Security Professional with proven experience developing, integrating, and sustaining information security programs ranging from $30 million to $500 million multi-year sustainment contracts supporting nationally critical missile warning, missile defense, and space situational awareness command and control systems.

Jay has 20+ years of IT/information security experience dedicated to cyber risk, security, privacy, and compliance. He provides a combined tactical and strategic balance towards the implementation of security and compliance requirements that aligns to an organization’s broader business strategy. Jay believes we should exceed the standard for our customers and partners and take the community approach to understanding business needs. Jay is a trusted advisor, and proud US Army retiree