Lucy Kerner is the Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager for Security at Red Hat. In this role, she is the global Security technical strategist and evangelist and helps drive thought leadership and the global go-to-market strategy for Security across the entire Red Hat portfolio. In addition, she helps create and deliver security related technical content to the field, customers, and partners. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect for the North America Public Sector team at Red Hat. Lucy has over 15 years of professional experience as both a software and hardware development engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked at IBM as both a Mainframe microprocessor design engineer and a pre-sales solutions architect for IBM x86 servers. She has also interned at Apple, Cadence, Lockheed Martin, and MITRE, where she worked on both software and hardware development. Lucy graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master of Science (M.S.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Minor in Spanish.
A Ponemon Institute report showed that 71% of developers believed that security was not adequately addressed during the software development lifecycle. This figure is revealing as it demonstrates that developers view security as a development priority, yet you often feel unequipped to engage. The relationship between security and developers has traditionally been like two teams competing at a tug-of-war. On one end, as developers, you are pulling to produce functional products as fast as possible. You don’t want to be...
