An Interview with New Contrast Board Member and Industry Cybersecurity and APM Pioneer Joe Sexton

Application performance management anchored its foundation in instrumentation, empowering developers to detect and diagnose application performance problems while writing code to meet the business’s service-level requirements. The same is happening in the area of application security, where instrumentation unlocks automation, dramatically improves accuracy, and speeds vulnerability detection and remediation. New Contrast Security Board Member Joe Sexton spent numerous years of his career in the cybersecurity and application development markets, including serving as the President of Worldwide Field Operations at AppDynamics and Executive VP of Global Sales at McAfee. In this Inside AppSec interview, Joe discusses application security from the perspective of the board and the opportunities security instrumentation offers to security, development, and operations leaders.