UPDATED 16:11 EDT / DECEMBER 21 2021

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Cloud native innovations to be highlighted in AWS Startup Showcase, Jan 26

Innovation in the startup economy comes in many forms.

During an ongoing pandemic in which many enterprises continued to operate remotely during 2021, logging in from the home office became standard protocol. However, the chief executive and co-founder of one enterprising startup took the remote work model to a whole new level this past summer when he ran his company from a van.

Daniel R. Odio, who goes by the name DROdio, recently stepped down as CEO to become chairman of his venture-backed software company Armory Inc. Before he handed over the reins, he packed his family into a van and traveled on an 8,100-mile, six-week journey across the U.S. to meet with Armory employees and clients.

“I am trying to live this myself to show employees that it’s possible,” said DROdio, in an interview earlier this year. “Technology is finally getting to a point where, if you are a modern knowledge worker and you want to work from a treehouse in Costa Rica, you’re going to be able to.”

Armory and other startup companies in the open-source enterprise computing space will be part of Season 2 Episode 1 of the upcoming AWS Startup Showcase: Open Cloud Innovations, scheduled to air on January 26. Amazon Web Services Inc. and theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s livestreaming studio, will welcome 10 companies within the cloud provider’s ecosystem and discuss the latest cloud native trends and new tools for open-source security.

TheCUBE’s coverage of the event begins at 10 a.m. PT and will feature a keynote with AWS Vice President Deepak Singh, plus interviews with startup founders and venture capitalists. (* Disclosure below.)

Securing dependencies

Armory was founded five years ago to make software delivery continuous, collaborative, scalable and secure. Its software delivery model is built on the open-source Spinnaker platform, and the firm has partnered with AWS to provide a single, codified pipeline for workload deployment in the cloud.

Another company slated to participate in the Showcase is Tidelift Inc., which provides tools, data and strategies for securing open-source dependencies used to power applications.

Tidelift made news earlier in the year when its chief executive – Donald Fischer – published a response to the May Executive Order issued by the White House on software supply chain security. Fischer noted that meeting requirements of the government mandate were contingent on whether enterprises could even identify which open-source software was in use.

Ensuring and attesting to the integrity and provenance of open-source software used within a product “gives the tiniest look at the massive piece of the iceberg floating below the surface for most organizations,” Fischer wrote. “The hard truth is that most organizations do not currently have a comprehensive understanding of all of the open-source software being used in their applications.”

Dealing with Apache vulnerability

Securing open-source software became a topic of greater interest following disclosure of the massive SolarWinds supply chain breach one year ago. It has become even more of an issue in recent days as malicious actors moved aggressively to exploit an open-source Apache flaw known as Log4j.

One security firm recently reported that the number of attacks seeking to exploit the Log4j vulnerability climbed from 40,000 on Dec. 11 to over 800,000 two days later. This has prompted startups such as WhiteSource Inc. to release a free command line interface tool in mid-December designed to detect and remediate the Log4j vulnerability.

WhiteSource, one of the companies scheduled to participate in the January event, has made the tool available on GitHub.

“It’s important for us to provide security and DevOps teams the tools they need to address new threats,” said Rami Sass, co-founder and CEO of WhiteSource, in announcing the tool’s release. “Adopting a remediation-first approach and baking security automation into development is the best way to proactively address new and emerging risks to today’s software development organizations.”

Livestream of the AWS Startup Showcase

The AWS Startup Showcase is a livestream event, with interviews to be broadcasted on theCUBE. You can register for free here to access the live event. Plus, you can watch theCUBE interviews here on demand after the live event.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch the live coverage of the AWS Startup Showcase, including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s events on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE Insights podcast

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on iTunesStitcher, and Spotify, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests

Stay tuned for a complete guest list of who will be interviewed on theCUBE during the AWS Startup Showcase.

Event Update!

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(* Disclosure: This event is sponsored by participating companies in the AWS Startup Showcase: Open Cloud Innovations. Neither AWS nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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