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#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Cracking the Compliance Code: Building Trust for Government-Grade Cloud Security
Quincy Castro, Chainguard
Matt Conner, CISO, Second Front
Rob Gil, Senior Director, Federal Architecture, Okta
Vijaya Ganesh Varadaraja Muthukumar, Director of Product Engineering, Platforms, Iron Mountain
Katie Norton, Research Manager, DevSecOps and Software Supply Chain Security, IDC
#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Securing the Next Moon Age: Automated Compliance Powers the Next Giant Leap
Collin Estes, CIO / NASA Chief Architect, MRI Technologies
#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Developer Productivity Without Compromise
Brandon Heard, Technical Leader (Cloud / Infrastructure), PeopleTec, Inc.
#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Why Golden Images Still Matter
Ayesha Bhutto, Sr Technical Success Manager, Chainguard
Molly Soja, Lead Security Engineer, KKR
34% surge in new secrets detected in public GitHub commits in 2025 vs 2024 data.
The state of secrets sprawl is, unfortunately, not improving.
https://www.gitguardian.com/state-of-secrets-sprawl-report-2026
Still, proud to have worked on this report and glad we can share it with the world.
#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Shift Left: Reducing Attack Surface in Financial Services
Quincy Castro, Chainguard (Moderator)
David Stern, CISO, KKR
Brian Kavanaugh, Fidelity National Financial
Ram Ramani, AWS
#Chainguard #Assemble 2026
Dan Lorenc - Founder, Chainguard
Dan Gillespie - Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
The data show that the LLM ecosystem is structurally plural. No single model or provider dominates; instead, users select systems along multiple axes such as capability, latency, price, and trust depending on context. This heterogeneity is not a transient phase but a fundamental property of the market. It promotes rapid iteration and reduces systemic dependence on any one model or stack.
