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Pat Oppett

Global Chief Information Security Officer at JPMorganChase; cybersecurity executive known for raising industry alarm on SaaS and third-party software supply chain risks.

Jul 22, 2026

22:09
And explain, how is physical infrastructure different than cloud-based digital infrastructure?
22:14
Yeah, so, uh, you know, servers or switches or firewalls all run, uh, code.
22:20
Uh, and, uh, you know, the goal is to keep those, uh, kits, the physical infrastructure kit current.
22:27
Uh, but oftentimes organizations tend to sweat their assets.
22:31
They don't replace that physical infrastructure as frequently as the providers would recommend, and it may fall out of maintenance, or it may lag the sort of current release of code.
22:42
W- what's going to happen now with the number of vulnerabilities that are being found is that providers are gonna f- be forced to fix the current software first, and so they're gonna prioritize m- maybe explicitly only the current software, which means that older software, especially if it's end of life or end of service, may not get patched or may not be available to patch.
23:03
And so o- organizations now are starting to think about all of this hardware refresh that they m- must need to do-
25:28
What's your thought on this stuff?

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