Larry Maccherone
COMCAST
operations activities , in a bid to introduce software into production at speed . The primary goal of any DevSecOps initiative is to enable development teams to change their mindset and adopt security practices into their daily activities .
However , Maccherone believes it ’ s impossible without healthy collaboration and mutual trust . In order to achieve that level of trust , Maccherone introduced a trust algorithm . “ The trust formula has three terms combined in the numerator : credibility + reliability + empathy which are all divided by apparent self-interest ,” he explains . “ It ’ s important that the apparent self-interest is as small as possible , with an emphasis on shared interests .”
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Larry Maccherone
Larry Maccherone is a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast where he currently leads the DevSecOps transformation initiative . Previously , Larry served as the Insights Product Line Director at Rally , where he published the largest ever study correlating development team practices with performance . Before that , Larry worked at Carnegie Mellon with the Software Engineering Institute ( SEI ) and CyLab conducting research on cybersecurity and software engineering . While there , he co-led the launch of the Build- Security-In initiative . He has also served as Principal Investigator for the NSA ’ s Code Assessment Methodology Project , on the Advisory Board for IARPA ’ s STONESOUP program , and as the Department of Energy ’ s Los Alamos National Labs Fellow . He speaks and publishes regularly on DevSecOps , Lean / Agile , and analytics and he is the primary author of a dozen open source projects , one of which gets 400,000 downloads per month . MARCH 2020