How to Secure the Electron Container for Capital Markets - Kris West and Ian Mesner, Cosaic - 20 May 20

FINOS Open Source in Finance Podcast

In this sixth edition of the FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast, FINOS Director of Community James McLeod interviews Cosaic's Director of Solutions Engineering Kris West and Chief Architect Ian Mesner after their FINOS Virtual Meetup presentation on May 20, 2020. Head to the FINOS.org site to see the video of the presentation, along with Kris and Ian's slides.

Smart desktop technology is changing the way we work, but bringing web technology to the desktop creates security issues that must be mitigated. In this webinar, our Director of Solutions Engineering Kris West and Chief Architect Ian Mesner discuss how the architecture of desktop interoperability involves:

• Protecting the operating system
• Protecting applications from each other
• Enabling interoperability and (when needed) providing access to desktop APIs
• Securing Electron

Join us as we outline the steps we took to secure our smart desktop platform, Finsemble, and highlight the use of our Secure Electron Adapter (now available as a FINOS open source project). For a little more background, read the article about the Secure Electron Adapter contribution here.

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The FINOS Open Source in Fintech Podcast celebrates open source projects and interesting topics at the cross section of financial services and open source. So far, our industry experts have discussed practical applications of and their real-world experiences with a range of open source projects including desktop interoperability, low code platforms, synthetic data, and data modeling. They’ve also discussed best practices for inner source, common myths about open source and why commercial companies choose to introduce open source offerings. Tune in to hear what comes next.

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