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.
Are we really controlling OSS Risk across the organization or just ‘bailing water’?
CAST Highlight for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) helps control open source risks across all your applications and is operational in a few weeks
Greg Rivera
Nov 7, 2022
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.
Greg Rivera
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?
Greg Rivera
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?
Greg Rivera
Jan 10, 2022
Building an Open Source Control Tower for Your Application Portfolio
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
Dec 21, 2020
Resiliency in Life and Software
Check out what's new with CAST Highlight and how you can improve software resiliency.
Greg Rivera
Oct 26, 2020
The Mainframe Has Come Full Circle
Make migrating your COBOL applications to the cloud easier with CAST's Software Intelligence.
Greg Rivera
Jul 27, 2020
Spring Cleaning the Software Shop
New updates to CAST Highlight to facilitate your IT department's spring cleaning.
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
Apr 14, 2020
The 'Easy Button' for Software Visibility
CAST Highlight's newest release includes enhancements to open source risk and cloud readiness assessments.
Greg Rivera
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
Greg Rivera
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
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
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
Greg Rivera
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
Greg Rivera
Oct 3, 2019
Quantifying Legacy Software Exposure with Application Portfolio Analysis
How to leverage APA to deal with your legacy software
Greg Rivera
Sep 10, 2019
Open Source Software Risks : How to prioritize
What apps should you be focusing on?
Greg Rivera
Aug 27, 2019
Open Source Software Licensing: Why Should You Care?
What are the risky licenses to look out for?
Greg Rivera
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?
Greg Rivera
Jun 4, 2019
CAST Brings Cloud Migration Assessments to Microsoft Visual Studio
How SmashFly Used CAST Highlight to Improve Their Microsoft Azure Deployments.
Greg Rivera
Dec 11, 2018
Pre-Migration Assessment: It’s a Cloud Migration Pain Killer
How to Side-Step Cloud Migration Hurdles with Pre-Migration Assessments.
Greg Rivera
Oct 19, 2018
Doing Cloud Migration Right: A Look at Scotts Miracle-Gro
Cloud migration assessments often make the difference in successful modernization efforts.
Greg Rivera
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.
Greg Rivera
Aug 21, 2018