7 Steps to Secure a SaaS Platform – the Worlds Biggest Companies Trust
Liferay is an enterprise Open Source company founded in 2004. In 2022 we announced our SaaS platform which enables the worlds largest organizations (especially from finance, insurance, government, manufacturing) to build their own digital experience. Securing the platform and the company brought a lot of challenges both on the technical and the human side. I’ll bring the 7 most interesting from various areas of the journey to share how we had to transform our company. Some of the challenges are very technical: why did we have to ask the company one day to stop working? Some of them are very human: how did we convince our Board as a relatively new team to make major changes which affect the whole company? It has been an amazing learning opportunity for us and we would like to give back what we have learned for the community.
About the Speaker
Zsolt Balogh is the VP of DevSecOps at Liferay. He has been working for this company for the past 13 years and went through the ranks from system administrator to leading the Information Security and SRE practices. Liferay provides an Open Source Portal and Digital Experience Platform support and services for enterprise companies around the globe with 1300 employees. Liferay was a traditional software vendor during it’s first 15 years, Zsolt is leading the effort to transform her to a SaaS company.