Greg Rivera

Greg Rivera

Greg Rivera - Vice President

As Vice President of CAST Highlight, Greg leads product strategy for the CAST SaaS platform helping customers and partners accelerate app modernization / cloud migration, rationalize their app portfolios, and reduce open source risk. He has worked with Fortune 1000 companies such as Microsoft, IDG Communications, and Arrow Electronics for over 20 years in technology and media, helping them make successful digital transformations. Greg has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Management of Technology and is passionate about applying technology to improve business and our everyday lives.

An Open Source Risk Sherpa

Open source software (OSS) has clearly become ubiquitous with over 70% of applications utilizing open source components according to Gartner. Although this is helping organizations dramatically reduce the time to market of delivering software, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) within OSS components continue to be a significant risk. For example, the Heartbleed vulnerability affected over 66% of all active websites in the world with an estimated cost of almost $500 million to fix it.

Jun 27, 2022

CliffsNotes for Open Source Licensing

Organizations everywhere are adopting the use of open-source software components at a high rate within their custom-built software applications to speed up the development process. However, this introduces risks such as the legal implications of the open-source license attached to open source components which governs how it can be used legally. The legal requirements of these licenses can be complex and confusing for individuals without expertise in intellectual property laws. What if there were an easier way to interpret the requirements of an open source license without needing a degree in intellectual property law?

Apr 11, 2022

What about Shift Left for Cloud?

There has been a lot of discussion about the concept of “Shift Left” when developing modern software. Shift Left is a practice commonly used in Agile software development that intends to find and prevent defects earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Typically, Shift Left is focused on defects such as security vulnerabilities, code quality, and compliance. But, what about also shifting left something more forward thinking, such as cloud readiness?

Jan 10, 2022

Building an Open Source Control Tower for Your Application Portfolio

Nov 2, 2021

Managing Software Technical Debt – The “Wear and Tear” on Your Applications

Learn how CAST Highlight is helping users navigate technical debt across software applications and improve software reliability over time.

Jun 28, 2021

Adding Some Wisdom to Software Intelligence

Cloud Readiness insights have been part of CAST Highlight for over three years and we have continued to enhance this capability in every release. The product automatically analyzes application source code and delivers valuable insights about an application’s cloud readiness.

Mar 29, 2021

Containers: A Disruptive Technology?

Containers are the disruptive technology of the cloud migration world. CAST is helping enterprises adopt containers much faster.

Dec 21, 2020

Resiliency in Life and Software

Check out what's new with CAST Highlight and how you can improve software resiliency.

Oct 26, 2020

The Mainframe Has Come Full Circle

Make migrating your COBOL applications to the cloud easier with CAST's Software Intelligence.

Jul 27, 2020

Spring Cleaning the Software Shop

New updates to CAST Highlight to facilitate your IT department's spring cleaning.

Jun 22, 2020

The 12-Factor App Manifesto: Assessing Your Applications

Learn how CAST Highlight can help you and your teams achieve Heroku's 12-Factor App manifesto.

Apr 14, 2020

The 'Easy Button' for Software Visibility

CAST Highlight's newest release includes enhancements to open source risk and cloud readiness assessments.

Mar 24, 2020

Intelligent PPM: Getting to the true “Why”?

Latest partnership powers Keyedin's top-rated cloud-based PPM solution with CAST Software Intelligence

Feb 4, 2020

Software Oriented Application Dependency Mapping: A Key Cloud Migration Weapon You Can’t Miss in 2020

7 Steps for Running an Application Dependency Mapping Exercise

Dec 31, 2019

Technology Diversity: A Growing Melting Pot in Today’s Enterprise

Technology diversity breeds complexity. CAST Highlight's latest release adds features that help manage complex technology environments.

Dec 17, 2019

#1 in M&A Technology due diligence checklist - Application Portfolio Analysis

A technology due diligence checklist could have saved 40% M&As from failing

Oct 22, 2019

How data visualization makes it easier to manage open source risks and assess application portfolios for cloud migration

Check out CAST Highlight's latest release features

Oct 3, 2019

Quantifying Legacy Software Exposure with Application Portfolio Analysis

How to leverage APA to deal with your legacy software

Sep 10, 2019

Open Source Software Risks : How to prioritize

What apps should you be focusing on?

Aug 27, 2019

Open Source Software Licensing: Why Should You Care?

What are the risky licenses to look out for?

Aug 15, 2019

Open Source Risk: A Critical Software Intelligence Component and New Innovations in the CAST Highlight May Release

What's new in CAST Highlight?

Jun 4, 2019

CAST Brings Cloud Migration Assessments to Microsoft Visual Studio

How SmashFly Used CAST Highlight to Improve Their Microsoft Azure Deployments.

Dec 11, 2018

Pre-Migration Assessment: It’s a Cloud Migration Pain Killer

How to Side-Step Cloud Migration Hurdles with Pre-Migration Assessments.

Oct 19, 2018

Doing Cloud Migration Right: A Look at Scotts Miracle-Gro

Cloud migration assessments often make the difference in successful modernization efforts.

Aug 27, 2018

Today’s #1 Pitfall in Cloud Migration? Not Getting a Cloud Migration Assessment

In a hyper-competitive cloud environment, the difference between winners and losers can be getting a proper assessment.

Aug 21, 2018