Name: Navigating Compliance: What Developers Can Learn From Driving - Kadi McKean & Charlie Jones, ReversingLabs
Start: 2025-08-26T15:05:00+0200
End: 2025-08-26T15:45:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tuesday August 26, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST

G105

When driving on a highway, you have to follow the rules of the road—some apply to everyone, while others only apply to commercial drivers. Open source maintainers and software publishers face a similar divide regarding regulatory compliance.

While software manufacturers must meet extensive legal and security obligations, open source maintainers often assume these regulations do not apply directly to them—but do they? In this talk, we’ll separate fact from fiction by breaking down what rules like the EU Cyber Resilience Act require from maintainers versus software vendors.

We’ll explore the limited enforceable obligations for open source projects, including secure development policies and vulnerability reporting, and discuss when (if ever) these rules impact maintainers. By understanding these distinctions, open source contributors can make informed decisions about risk, responsibility, and collaboration with commercial software teams—without unnecessary compliance burdens.

Speakers

Kadi McKean

Community Manager, ReversingLabs

Kadi is passionate about the DevOps / DevSecOps community since her days of working with COBOL development and Mainframe solutions. At ReversingLabs she collaborates with developers and security researchers to help entities prioritize their open source risk, reduce technical debt... Read More →

Charlie Jones

Director of Product Management, ReversingLabs

Charlie is a Software Assurance Evangelist with 7 years of experience in providing strategy and transformation services for cyber security, third party risk, and IT audit programmes of both Fortune and FTSE 100 companies across all 3 lines of defence. Charlie specializes in helping... Read More →

Tuesday August 26, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G105

OpenGovCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Kadi McKean

Charlie Jones

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