Isaac Evans is the leader of Semgrep, a company improving software security and reliability. Previously, he conducted research into binary exploitation bypasses for techniques like control-flow integrity and novel hardware defenses on new architectures like RISC-V as a researcher at the U.S. Defense Department under a SFS program and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Despite the promises of the “shift left,” how security is implemented is far more important than when. Our expert lays our a vision for a developer-first security posture based on guardrails, not gates..