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Mandy Andrus

Mandy Andrus

CISO at Elastic, a cybersecurity leader and board member/investor who keynotes on AI-era security and appeared on Security Café discussing open source culture.

Sep 29, 2026

5:10
Not just from an open source perspective, but really from a knowledge perspective as well.
5:17
Yeah, absolutely.
5:18
And one of the things that brought me and I was really interested in coming to Elastic is, yes, the open source foundation that the company started with, but also just from a security perspective, transparency and openness.
5:34
So there's really a focus on our code is open.
5:38
Everyone can see what that code base looks like.
5:41
The detection rules within our product are all public and you can... make contributions to that.
5:48
There's no black box.
7:53
How can that not be a risk? Of course, you have multiple people looking to protect you, but how about that risk piece?

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