Episode #002: Building Production-worthy Software in SecOps Teams with Chris Horsley, CTO at Cosive

Chris Horsley
Chris Horsley
Chief Technology Officer
Tash Postolovski
Tash Postolovski
Technical Marketing Manager
Episode #002: Building Production-worthy Software in SecOps Teams with Chris Horsley, CTO at Cosive
February 21, 2024


Before jointly founding Cosive with Kayne Naughton and Terry MacDonald, Chris Horsley (Cosive’s CTO) spent many years working in national CSIRTs in both Australia and Japan, as well as doing freelance secure software development for operations teams.

In this interview Chris talks about the challenges of building software and writing critical automation scripts in SecOps teams.

An edited transcript of this episode is available here.

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