Joe Jarzombek is Global Manager for Software Supply Chain Management for the Software Integrity Group at Synopsys.  He leads efforts to enhance the Software Integrity Platform to mitigate software supply chain risk via automated analysis and testing technologies that integrate within acquisition and development processes; enabling the detection, reporting, and remediation of defects and security weaknesses and vulnerabilities throughout the lifecycle to better enable others to gain assurance and visibility within the software supply chain.

Prior to joining Synopsys, he served as the Director for Software & Supply Chain Assurance in the US Department of Homeland Security Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. Prior to that he served in the US Department of Defense as the Deputy Director for Information Assurance in Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and as the Director for Software Intensive Systems in the Office of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). 

He is a retired Lt Colonel in the US Air Force.  He is a Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP).  He received an MS in Computer Information Systems from the Air Force Institute of Technology and an BA in Computer Science and BBA in Data Processing and Analysis from the University of Texas in Austin, TX.