Neil Carpenter
Field CTO, Minimus
Neil Carpenter helps organizations identify and contain security risks in their cloud estates. His passion for getting ahead of security problems comes from more than a decade of leading customer-facing security incident response teams at Microsoft and seeing what happens when attackers win. Neil also helped build the future of cloud-native security at Twistlock, StackRox, Torq, and Orca Security before joining Minimus. When he is not in front of a computer, Neil is an avid New York City-based street photographer.
Neil
at PlatformCon
Showcase
Virtual
Jun 24, 2026
15.00
CEST
09:00
EDT
45
mins
From secure images to hardened deployments in minutes
Organizations spend too much time and effort managing vulnerabilities in containers, particularly in regulated industries. Join Minimus's Neil Carpenter as he operationalizes Minimus's hardened, near-zero CVE container images to vastlyto reduce the friction of addressing vulnerabilities in an application's services. In sixty minutes, we'll go from thousands of vulnerabilities demanding attention from platform engineers, SREs, and developers to a manageable workload.
Talk
On-demand
Virtual
15
mins
Risks in your supply chain
In this talk, we analyze supply chain risks in NPM and Python package managers and how deep and pervasive the problem goes. We focus on real data and analysis to show how much risk even trivial apps pull in through transitive dependencies.