Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Mitch Denny is a Senior Program Manager on the Azure Artifacts team at Microsoft. His team is responsible for designing code sharing experiences for software engineers including support for popular package types such as NPM, NuGet, Maven, PyPI and more. Over the past few years Mitch has had front-tickets to how large engineering organizations react to security threads related to the software supply chain and has insights on how teams can protect themselves and remain product and some challenging problems that still exist today.
Front-end developers have grown accustomed to protecting themselves from attackers seeking to exploit vectors such as cross-site scripting and malicious input, but the prevalence of reusable micro-libraries in the Node.js ecosystem makes JavaScript developers particularly susceptible to software supply chain attacks. In this session Mitch will share his perspective on helping to protect Microsoft and its customers […]