Alteryx
Lead Application Security Engineer
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About Alteryx
Alteryx is a global leader in analytic process automation (APA), founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, California. The company specializes in unifying analytics, data science, and business process automation into a single end-to-end platform. Its flagship product, the Alteryx Analytic Process Automation Platform, automates data preparation, blending, and advanced analytics, making these processes accessible to business users without requiring deep technical expertise. In addition to its main platform, Alteryx offers products like Alteryx One for business intelligence and visualization, and Alteryx Copilot for advanced analytics. The company focuses on automating analytics and data science workflows to help organizations enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. Alteryx also fosters a collaborative environment through the Alteryx Community, where users can work together to solve business challenges. With a diverse customer base that includes notable names like NASA, Coca-Cola, and Walmart, Alteryx demonstrates its broad applicability across various industries. The company continues to grow through innovation and strategic partnerships, enhancing its capabilities in AI-powered data preparation and analytics talent development.
Security at Alteryx
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Security Philosophy
- Alteryx's Application Security philosophy is rooted in an overarching information security program.
- Their software development adheres to a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) policy, utilizing a risk-based approach.
- The Alteryx Trust Center serves as a centralized resource for customers regarding security.
Security Team
- Key public-facing leaders include lwmoody, SVP & CISO at Alteryx, and Matt Goodrich, Director of Security Architecture.
- Job postings for Staff Application Security Engineers indicate roles that "Play a lead role in developing and designing application security integration and automation within CI/CD"and "build security control testing at scale while balancing risk reduction and pragmatism".
Key Initiatives
Alteryx develops software components "in line with our Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) policy"and performs "periodic security code reviews and scans source code". They have a "comprehensive vulnerability management program"and aim to "Enable automation for vulnerability management workflows and reporting". A key initiative is "enabling developers to ship secure software with speed". For application layer security, they "recommend encrypting connections to Server using HTTPS with TLS 1.2+". Explicit public evidence of a Security Champions program is not publicly available.
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