Episode 61: Automated Governance with Michael Edenzon

This week, Michael Edenzon, Co-Founder of Fianu Labs, joins Tech Transforms to talk about why automated governance is so critical to mission success. Michael also provides some great insight into his recently co-authored book Investments Unlimited.Key Topics[02:08] About Fianu Labs[04:54] What passes as evidence and how does it play into automated governance?[09:29] Michael's book: Investments Unlimited[16:50] Automated governance vs. Authority to Operate[28:33] Taking software asset inventory[35:40] Tech Talk Q&AQuotable QuotesOn what counts as evidence in the context of software governance: "Our real focus in that regard is trying to get people to realize that evidence isn't just this random metadata that's captured from here and there, but instead it's going through all of the enrichment and providing all of the context that's necessary for an auditor to come and reproduce those results that you're using to base your enforcement off of." - Michael EdenzonOn how automated governance relates to Authority to Operate: "It [automated governance] is a method for achieving the ATO. So it can accelerate your ATO process and it can help you reach it faster, but what automated governance really is, is a means of achieving continuous ATO." - Michael EdenzonAbout Our GuestMichael Edenzon is a senior IT leader and engineer that modernizes and disrupts the technical landscape for highly-regulated organizations. Michael provides technical design, decisioning, and solutioning across complex verticals and leverages continuous learning practices to drive organizational change. He is a fervent advocate for the developer experience and believes that enablement-focused automation is the key to building compliant software at scale.Episode LinksInvestments UnlimitedToyota KataFailure is Not an Option