Edera’s Alex Zenla on how to make cloud computing and AI secure-by-design

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In this episode, Greg Otto talks with Edera co-founder and CTO Alex Zenla, charting her path from beginnings in Minecraft IRC channels to pioneering container isolation technology. Alex discusses her unique expertise in container security, GPU protection, and AI infrastructure, and how Edera is transforming the tech landscape with a commitment to balancing open-source benefits with robust security, setting new standards for cloud security's future. In our reporter chat, Greg talks with Derek B. Johnson about a controversial executive order from Donald Trump that upends the way elections could be conducted in the future.

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