Javier Perez, Chief Evangelist at Perforce Software

Passionate about technology and open-source software, Javier is Chief Evangelist for Open Source and Security at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for the open-source and application security portfolios. Javier has been in the application development, open-source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 20+ years, and has had the opportunity to speak at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.

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Cyber Security Insights

Organizations, Beware: Protect Against Protestware

May 6, 2022

The term protestware recently made global news when organizations in Russia and Belarus were attacked by malicious code that wiped their computers’ files. This malware was distributed through the popular open source JavaScript library, node-ipc, and was introduced by its maintainer in retaliation for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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