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Wade

Director - Platform Security
Heroku Staff

Wade leads the Platform Security Team for Heroku. The Platform Security team works in conjunction with, and in support of, Heroku Engineering to provide a trusted and secure platform.

There’s obviously more to security than humans, technology, and vendors with all of their implementations and expertise. At Heroku we believe that security is a byproduct of excellence in engineering. All too often, software is written solely with the happy path in mind, and security assurances of that software has its own dangerous assumptions. A mature security program should challenge assumptions of security controls, move to testing continuously, and prepare for the unexpectable. This means asking hard questions about the bigger picture. Think bigger than the development lifecycle, backing away from the fixations of confirming effective corrections and remediations. This…

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