The $5 Billion Effort to help Secure the World’s Shared Software

AI is changing cybersecurity and raising hard questions about how fast organizations can

respond.

Earlier this year, IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by a force of

20,000 engineers with the goal of securing the open source software that powers a great deal of

modern life — from banks and payment systems to transportation and critical infrastructure.

Malcolm Gladwell speaks with cybersecurity leader Jen Easterly, Wells Fargo Chief Information

Security Officer Munish Sharma, and Red Hat’s Gunnar Hellekson about how AI is transforming

vulnerability discovery, how open source software can introduce risk, and what it will take to

secure the shared digital infrastructure much of the world depends on.

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