Fixing Open Source Risk Without Slowing Developers Down | Chris Hertz, Heeler

About this episode

James is joined by Chris Hertz to discuss open-source security risks in software development.

Send a text In this episode of Secure Insights, James is joined by Chris Hertz, co-founder and CEO of Heeler to unpack one of the biggest and most underestimated risks in modern software development: open-source security. The conversation looks at why traditional approaches to managing open-source libraries often create more noise than clarity, leaving teams buried in alerts while real risk goes unresolved. Chris shares how combining static analysis, runtime context, and automated remediatio...

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Host: James

Guest: Chris Hertz

Topics covered

• open-source security
• software development
• static analysis
• automated remediation
• risk management

Keywords

• open-source
• security
• software development
• static analysis
• automated remediation
• risk management

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Organizations: Heeler, NDK Cyber

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