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In 2025, attackers used a hitherto unknown vulnerability in the Oracle Cloud authentication infrastructure, stealing millions of identity records and sensitive keys of more than 140,000 tenants the breach highlights the role of vulnerability in security testing and lifecycle practices in causing broad vulnerability.
In this discussion, the authors present a view of how contemporary organizations can secure the lifecycle of software development in the most effective way by striking a balance between Shifting Left and Shifting Right environments of a DevSecOps environment. It looks at how prompt application of automated security testing can help teams to address vulnerabilities earlier before deployment and thus less remediation plus development time is wasted and persistent validation and monitoring once released, starts the detection of issues that are not noted at all until production or an adversarial environment.
Instead of placing these methodologies mutually exclusive, the session proposes the way of integrating them into a unified approach that enhances resilience to the changing threats. The participants will be taught practical methods of integrating automation, building cooperation, integrating feedback loops, which enhance speed of development and security performance and eventually guide teams to provide quality, safe software with confidence.
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Omer Farooq operates at the intersection of application and cloud Security architecture, automation, and security automation. Omer is a security and AI evangelist at heart, building trust with all his clients by leveraging his extensive experience in software development, cloud, security, AI, and architecture, spanning over twenty-five years.
Omer Farooq is the founder and principal security consultant at Auxin Security in Baltimore, MD. At Auxin, Omer has provided result-oriented consulting and services to over 100+ clients in the last decade including multiple fortune 500 organizations, non-profits, and government entities worldwide in GenAI LLM Security, data science, DevSecOps, penetration testing, threat modeling, offensive risk-based assessment, embedded and mobile software development, and system engineering.
A serial entrepreneur, Omer has founded multiple security and AI-focused startups. These include AlphaScale.Cloud, automating DevSecOps process from architecture to code and everything in the middle, and Auxin.AI, a platform designed to build secure, cost-optimized, backend-agnostic AI applications. Auxin.AI leverages data routers, inference-level Data Loss Prevention, and blockchain-powered token exchange to fortify AI solutions.
Omer has shared his insights at industry-leading conferences and panels, including RSA, BSides DC, AWS Events, NAB, Infosecurity Magazine Webinars, Avid Connect, AWS and Microsoft Azure conferences, and HPA.
Omer founded the Farooq Foundation, a YouTube-based online education platform committed to offering free K-12 courses in native languages. With thousands of educational videos and the platform garners over a million views each month.
He is currently pursuing a master's degree in Public Policy Administration at Harvard University (class of 2026). Omer holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Stony Brook University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Beyond his professional pursuits, Omer enjoys rebuilding BMW inline six-cylinder engines, indulging in boba tea, and teaching secure embedded software development online.
| Length | 45 minutes |
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