Accelerating App Modernization:
Balancing Agility, Innovation, and Security
Balancing Agility, Innovation, and Security
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Modernizing applications has become essential for businesses seeking to enhance agility, scalability, and cost efficiency in today’s competitive landscape. By transitioning from monolithic architectures to microservices-based designs in cloud environments, organizations can unlock new levels of flexibility and performance. Coupled with AI and other cloud-based services, modernized apps can deliver richer, more engaging user experiences.
However, as the pace of app modernization increases, so do the associated challenges. The integration of AI models, third-party APIs, and cloud services often expands the attack surface of applications, leaving them vulnerable to evolving security threats. Organizations must find effective strategies to protect their apps without compromising performance, scalability, or innovation.
Join us for a live panel discussion in the latest episode of The Last Great Cloud Transformation series, where industry experts will share actionable insights, real-world experiences, and practical guidance to help your organization modernize with confidence.
What you will learn:
- Why app modernization is vital for business agility and growth.
- The security risks unique to modernized apps—and why they matter.
- Effective strategies for mitigating threats without sacrificing speed or scalability.
- How to balance innovation and protection to stay ahead in a competitive market.
However, as the pace of app modernization increases, so do the associated challenges. The integration of AI models, third-party APIs, and cloud services often expands the attack surface of applications, leaving them vulnerable to evolving security threats. Organizations must find effective strategies to protect their apps without compromising performance, scalability, or innovation.
Join us for a live panel discussion in the latest episode of The Last Great Cloud Transformation series, where industry experts will share actionable insights, real-world experiences, and practical guidance to help your organization modernize with confidence.
What you will learn:
- Why app modernization is vital for business agility and growth.
- The security risks unique to modernized apps—and why they matter.
- Effective strategies for mitigating threats without sacrificing speed or scalability.
- How to balance innovation and protection to stay ahead in a competitive market.
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Tracy Ragen
Creator & CEO - DeployHub
Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice catalog designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and versioning of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she is the elected General Member Representative. Tracy is a recognized evangelist in microservices and the continuous delivery pipeline. She is the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape, a blog contributor for the CDF and speaks at many DevOps events such as KubeCon and DevOpsWorld. Tracy is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and speaks at AWS Marketplace webinar educational events.
Saikrishna Chavali
Senior Product Marketing Manager - cloudflare
Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali has a decade of experience building and growing application security testing, data loss prevention, and cloud security products. He's had product management and product marketing stints at Veracode, CA Technologies and Proofpoint.
Johnny Halife
CTO - SOUTHWORKS
Johnny Halife is the Chief Technology Officer at SOUTHWORKS, the software engineering partner with an action-first approach designed to take you from zero to sixty better than anyone else. With over 20 years of experience in the IT software and services industry, Johnny leads and delivers cloud engineering projects for clients across various sectors and regions, including Microsoft, BBC, 7-Eleven, SAP, Ubisoft, and many others.
Outside of his leadership role at SOUTHWORKS, Johnny is the founder of MURAL, a San Francisco-based startup that enables teams to collaborate visually and creatively. He served as the chief technology officer of MURAL from 2012 to 2017, overseeing product development and innovation. Johnny is passionate about design thinking, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship, and has mentored and coached several startups and organizations, such as Startup Weekend, Microsoft Azure Accelerator, and IDEO U.
Outside of his leadership role at SOUTHWORKS, Johnny is the founder of MURAL, a San Francisco-based startup that enables teams to collaborate visually and creatively. He served as the chief technology officer of MURAL from 2012 to 2017, overseeing product development and innovation. Johnny is passionate about design thinking, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship, and has mentored and coached several startups and organizations, such as Startup Weekend, Microsoft Azure Accelerator, and IDEO U.
Mitch Ashley
VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and AppDev - The Futurum Group
Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with deep expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. An in-demand CTO, CIO, engineering, and DevOps leader, Mitch has the pulse on the latest in software engineering, including the AI's impact in development, testing and security, cloud-native architecture, application and software supply chain security, platform engineering, ITOps, SecOps, AIOps, and DataOps. In his career, Mitch has brought to market multiple industry-impacting software-based products, including cybersecurity products, SaaS applications, Internet services, large telecommunications and financial applications, mobile applications, managed PKI services, and broadband networks. At Futurum, Mitch advises and guides leaders in delivering contemporary and next-generation software and security strategies critical to their business strategies.