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What You’ll Learn in This Webinar
It might seem obvious that regularly upgrading software and dependencies means your software is inherently more secure, but in practice, this is hard to achieve. Choice Hotels struggled to manually maintain their codebase and remediate all the transitive vulnerabilities lurking in the code. Today’s compositional applications created a complex archeological exploration challenge for developers trying to resolve security issues across a codebase. It was time-consuming, tedious and imperfect.
In this program, Choice Hotels explains how they overcame these challenges for their development teams with Moderne’s remediation automation. With this solution, they applied the principles and practices of continuous software modernization and kept their code in a more secure state.
You will learn about:
- Choice Hotels' challenges and solutions on the path to continuous modernization
- How automating code remediation can dramatically change the security posture and productivity balance within an organization
- What it takes to automatically remediate vulnerabilities with high accuracy at enterprise scale
- How Moderne’s next-generation alternative to current SAST tooling is dramatically improving developer velocity
Jason Simpson
Vice President, Engineering - Choice Hotels
Mr. Simpson is a global technology leader with over 25 years of software development and IT experience across start-ups, government and large public companies. Mr. Simpson, Vice President of Engineering at Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), leads the company’s Cloud Engineering and Franchisee Systems organizations. He is currently driving the infrastructure and Operations teams to migrate all services and applications to AWS and also adopting best-in-class Saas solutions and looking for game changing technology that will help drive value for the business. Prior to joining Choice Hotels, Mr. Simpson was the Chief Technology Officer for the State of Arizona, where he authored the state’s Cloud First policy and drove technology transformation. Mr. Simpson was instrumental in unifying over 30 state email platforms onto Google’s Workspace; over 30,000 accounts were migrated at a cost savings in the multi-millions for the taxpayer. He also drove migration of many applications to the cloud, while ensuring Arizona has more cloud applications running on Amazon Web Services than any other state in the union. Mr. Simpson is a member of the Menlo Ventures CxO group and sits on numerous customer advisory boards for companies like NetApp and Veza.
Stephen Cihak
Sr. Director, Cloud Platform - Choice Hotels
Mr. Cihak is a seasoned cloud technology expert with 25 years of software development experience and over a decade driving cloud technologies. He has a proven track record of delivering innovative software solutions across a range of industries and platforms. As the Sr Director of Cloud Platform and Site Reliability at Choice Hotels International, he is responsible for creating practical and efficient cloud platforms that support business growth initiatives. Under his leadership, Mr. Cihak has fostered a Site Reliability culture that has led to significant reductions in incidents and an increased level of reliability in critical systems. Before joining Choice Hotels, Mr. Cihak was instrumental in helping a health food company harness AWS' multi-region capabilities for their global sales organization. Previous to that, he played a key role in the development and modernization of application suites at State Farm and Nationwide.
Pat Johnson
Head of Marketing - Moderne
Pat Johnson is Head of Marketing for Moderne, a company that automates software remediation at scale. She has worked the last eight years in the DevOps and cloud computing space, focusing on solutions that improve the developer and operator experience alike. Previously, she worked as portfolio marketing lead for the Tanzu platform at VMware and product marketing manager for CI/CD solutions at both Pivotal and CA Technologies.
