Software supply chain attacks exploit interdependencies within software ecosystems.

Security and the supply chain is a growing issue and is particularly important for companies that rely on large numbers of open source dependencies.

ChainGard was founded in 2021 and offers tools and secure container images to improve the security of the software supply chain.

Matt Moore is the founder and CTO of ChainGard.

He started his career in compiler optimization at Microsoft and worked at Google before starting

ChangGuard.

He joins the show with Gregor Van to talk about container security.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of MailPass.

Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering

companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile

at vand.hk.

Hi Matt, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so Matt, you are at Chainguard, and I think let's just dive in a bit before you founded

chain guard. So you've had a pretty interesting history before this. Maybe could you just

tell us a bit about what you were doing before founding Chainguard?

Yeah, so I started out my career doing something, you know, within software engineering,

pretty different. I really got into compilers in college. And I actually came out to the Seattle area to join Microsoft where I worked on compiler optimizations for, I think, seven years, seven and a half years,

and, you know, did all kinds of super low-level stuff. After that, I sort of got a bit jaded on the compiler space,

and I made the switch to Google, where I met, you know, my other co-founders over another seven, eight years, where we worked on

assorted different projects. I started out sort of staying in the developer tools side of things

and in the language tool side of things. But it was different enough from what I was doing,

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