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Michelle Austin
Senior Program Manager, Cybersecurity Strategy and Operations at Undisclosed
Jonathan Baier
Founder/President at Next Next LLC
Gurinder Bhatti
Principal Global Security Strategist at Okta
Guan Cheng Lin
Senior Cyber Security Advisor at Service NSW
Ivan Djordjevic
Principal Advisor, Security & Compliance at Salesforce
Ledy M. Eng
Cloud Security Engineer
Kyle Fiehler
Senior Transformation Analyst at Zscaler
Sun Robin Flamm
Head of Cyber Security & Infrastructure Management at Metabo
Gerry Gajeton
Sanjit Ganguli
VP, Transformation Strategy, Field CTO at ZScaler
PMI PMP and ISC2 CISSP, ISSEP, CCSP certified.
Ravindra S. Gotavade
OT Security Architect at Tetra Pak India Pvt Ltd.
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Gaurav Gupta
Senior Vice President, IT Audit/Regulatory/Third Party Governance at United Overseas Bank
Nathan Howe
SVP of Emerging Technology at Zscaler
Hsin-Chih Huang
COO & CISO at SustainableTech Consulting
Grant Hughes
Principal Security Architect at Engen Petroleum Ltd
Glenn Jacobson
Senior Cybersecurity SME at VAULTES
Krishnamurthy Karry
Senior Vice President at Citi
Mohamed Ali Kazi
Lead Security Architect at Department of Work & Pensions
Ian Kempton
Principal, Data Protection
Roland Kissoon
Senior Specialist - Cyber Security at Microsoft
Roland has over 25 years of progressive extensive experience with increasing responsibilities in multiple security domains. He is responsible for security strategy and direction, industry trends, threat landscape, and best practices, as well as being a trusted adviser to senior management and customer executives. Along with his cloud, network, cyber security and physical security experience, Roland has worked on projects designing, developi...
Jagan Kolli
Director, Cyber Security and M&A at Avery Dennison
Rohit Kumar
SOC Lead at American Express
Zenith Law
Director at Zenospace
Matt Lee
Senior Director of Security and Compliance at Pax8
Jason Lee
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AESO
Grid Defender | Ensuring Cyber Resilience of the Electric Grid
Raul Paolo Miranda
Vice President at (ISC)2 Singapore
Vivian Nwoji
Head of Technology & Security Assurance at Dentsu
Omoruyi Osagiede
Security Architect / Principal Consultant
Kenneth Peeples
Principal Security Architect at Red Hat/IBM
Olenka Petren
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft
Mahdi Rahimi
Senior IT Security Manager at Ströer Digital Media GmbH, Serity GmbH
Rengarajan Ramachandran
Principal Cloud Security Engineer at Fidelity Investments
Sesh Ramasharma
Global Head, Identity Security Product Line at HCL Technologies
Jason Rattos
Global Cloud Security Director at Temenos
He is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance's Zero Trust Working Group and a contributor to the Cloud Security Alliance's CCZT certification exam.
Jason is a Computer Science graduate and holds certifications including CISM, CCSP, CCSK and SABSA.
Harshad Ravichand
Senior Manager, Presales Security at eir evo
Michael Roza
Risk, Audit, Control and Compliance Professional at EVC
Kalpa Kalhara Sampath
Security Researcher / Lecturer
Hayden Scott Jr.
Head, Information Security and Risk at The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd.
Ujas Chandulal Selarka
Software Asset Management Advisory at KPMG (India)
Joseph T.
Lead Security Engineer at ExpressVPN
Gez Tadesse
Senior Information Security Project Manager at University of Southern California
Ilia Tivin
Managing Director at Locked Jar PTE. LTD.
Ilia Tivin (CISSP-ISSMP, CCSP, CCSK, ITIL) is a veteran information security professional with 20 years of experience in various industries, from military and intelligence, through pharmaceutical , baking, insurance, manufacturing and more... In previous roles Ilia has worked in the capacity of a Hybrid cloud architect for HPE center of excellence, and as a customer success specialist for Cisco Systems, and over the years has advised variou...
Rajat Tripathi
Senior IT Audit Manager at Amazon
Lauren Wise
Senior Director, Global Executive Advisory at Zscaler
Deepak Agrawal
Head Advisory Services at Elite Technologies Middle East W.L.L
Ashief Ahmed
IT Security Architect at British Columbia Provincial Health Services Authority
David Carrascosa
Cybersecurity Risk Manager at Domo Chemicals
Bernard Coetzee
Security Solution Architect at Capitec Bank
BJ Dela Cruz
Lead IT Specialist at Bureau of the Fiscal Service
David Dorsey
Tech Lead, Cloud Security at Sensus/Xylem
Chris Dozier
Cybersecurity Professional
Frank O. Iheonu
Managing Consultant/Qualified Security Assessor at Digital Jewels Africa Limited
Cyril Jacob
Principal Information Security Risk Auditor at UnitedHealth Group (UHG)-Optum Inc.
Brett James
CTO in Residence at Zscaler
An IT infrastructure and security leader with 23+ years experience, currently serving as CTO in Residence at Zscaler. Brett's career has evolved from help desk support, server and datacenter operations, through to leading global teams with responsibilities across operations, engineering design and enterprise architecture disciplines.
Andrea Knoblauch
Principal, Security at Softchoice
Bryce Malinchak
Senior Cyber & Privacy Consultant at CrossCountry Consulting
Aunudrei Oliver
Director, Customer Experience Product Management at CISCO
Dipak Patel
Cybersecurity Architect
Ankit Sharma
Security Officer, Compute BU at Cisco Systems
Adaeze Udechukwu
Cybersecurity Solutions Consultant at Health Care Service Corporation
Sanjeev Gupta
Director - Cloud Assurance Programs at CPG Singapore
Editors
John C. Checco
Chief Information Security Officer at Proofpoint
Johny Gasser
Strategist & Business Advisor – Cyber Security and Risk Management at Orange Business
Mehmet Gulyurt
Systems Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Jaye Tillson
Director of Strategy at Axis Security
Kim Woodbeck
Supplier Management and Risk Lead at Common Securitization Solutions
Bharat K. Aggarwal
Associate Director (GRC) at Birlasoft
Ajay Chandramouly
Director at Oracle
Marco Ermini
Chief Information Security Officer at EQS Group AG
Eyal Estrin
Author, Cloud Security Architect at Undisclosed
Gaurav Gupta
Senior Vice President, IT Audit/Regulatory/Third Party Governance at United Overseas Bank
Arif Hameed
Chief Information Security Officer at C&R Software
Gordon Moreau
Information Security Architect at W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Amit Sharma
Senior Consultant Cyber Security at HCL Technologies
Alex Sharpe
Managing Director at Sharpe42
Mr. Sharpe is a long-time (+30 years) Cybersecurity, Governance, and Digital Transformation expert with real-world operational experience. Mr. Sharpe has run business units and has influenced national policy. He has spent much of his career helping corporations and government agencies create value while mitigating cyber risk. This provides him a pragmatic understanding of the delicate balance between Business realities, Cybersecurity, and O...
Gustavo Vallejo
Professor, EALDE Business School
Brad Voris
Information Security Architect at Walmart Global Technology
Ahmed Magdy
Cybersecurity Senior Manager at Sky Deutschland GmbH
Satyavathi Divadari
Global Head of Enterprise Security Architecture at OpenText
Vinay Dubey
Journey Expert (Cloud Data, Security & GRC) at ANZ
Mohamed Elaarag
Director Risk Advisory at Deloitte Canada
Ray Ellis
Global Head of Enterprise Security Architecture at Philip Morris International
Moshe Ferber
CCSK, CCSP, CCAK official instructor, Chairman at Cloud Security Alliance, Israel
Noah Gray
Solution Architecture Director at PwC
Omar Guzman
Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer at Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Sky Hackett
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Peter Holcomb
Director, Information Security at eMed Digital Healthcare
Simon Johnson
Security Design Engineer at Direct Line Group
Patrick Biselela Kabongo
Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
Raul Paolo Miranda
Vice President at (ISC)2 Singapore
Sowrirajan Padmanabhan
Senior Product Manager
Tommy Pigeon
Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting
Sangram Rath
Founder & Cloud Architect at OD10 Ventures
Vaibhav Sharma
Global Product Services lead - Cyber Security CSA IOT Co-Chair at TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbH
Vaibhav has been working in industrial cyber security for the last 16 years. In the past, he worked for CSA as a ZTA exam reviewer. Currently also Senior Member for ISA Working Groups and Standard Committee. Strengths in Cloud security, risk Advisory Consulting, Operation Risk Assessments, program management, design & implementation specialist for project controls.
Strong industry experience with technical, communication & delivery sk...
Soontorn Sirapaisan
Information Security Research Team Leader at National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Thanos Vrachnos
Cyber Security Consultant at SpearIT
Heinrich Smit
CISO & Risk Management at Semperis
Heinrich is a recognized Information Protection and Zero Trust expert who started out in Law, and pivoted to his love of technology during the Tech Boom. He has led teams at software innovators and large financial institutions, has authored entire Information Security Policy stores, and has protected data at both 280,000 seat regulated enterprises and SAAS-based startup unicorns. He is passionate about Privacy and Zero Trust, as well as Def...
Reviewers
Miguel Angel Arenas
Manager, GRC at Thomson Reuters
Collin Brown
Senior Consultant, Cyber Security at Bell Canada
Desmond Cher
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Kevin Davies
Principal Security Consultant at Cognizant
Genesio Di Sabatino
SASE Technical Leader at BeDisruptive
Ali Iskili
Systems Security Engineering Manager at Aselsan
Bill Izzo
Director, Cloud Security Governance at Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
Innovative leader with a strong technical and business background with a track record of success across multiple technology domains and markets. Senior business management and technical leadership experience in the DOD, Private, and Government sectors. Years of experience in the management of medium to large network and systems engineering teams with significant experience in the management of large multi-million dollar data com...
Liz Jaluague
Senior Security Engineer at Driven (by Purpose Unlimited)
Lars Lars Ruddigkeit
Account Technical Strategist Swiss FedGov at Microsoft
Dimitris Maketas
Senior Project Manager
Marcus Maxwell
Director - Consulting | Security at Cognizant
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Eric Peeters
Senior Manager at Weaver
Didier Santos
Information Security Officer
Bernard Tan
Director for Government Cybersecurity Consulting, GovTech
Bernard is a Director in GovTech leading the GovTech Cybersecurity consultancy team to provide risk based consultancy services to architect the cybersecurity of Nationwide and Governmentwide strategic projects.
Through his 16 years in the public sector, he has undertaken various cybersecurity roles and projects in areas of Homeland security. He held key roles such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Information se...
Ken Underhill
Co-Founder at Cyber Life
Lenard Vega
Corporate DevSecOps Lead at Credicorp
Dr. Mike S. Vo
Executive Officer & Enterprise Solutions Architect at MSQV, LLC
Lulu Hernandez Walker
Senior Manager in IT Advisory at Weaver
Rajat Agrawal
Senior Consultant at Clevigour Solutions
Shankar Chebrolu
Director of Security Architecture at Red Hat and President of CSA Triangle Chapter
Peter van Eijk
Head Coach at ClubCloudComputing.com
Dr. Peter van Eijk is one of the world's most experienced cloud trainers. He offers CCSK as an instructor-led online course, as well as in-person. He is an authorized CSA CCSK (since 2011) and (ISC)2 CCSP trainer with a passion to make you more effective in your work.
Ryan Green
Director at RMG Cyber Consulting
Nicolas Grzesitchak
Cloud Security Engineer at SAP
Vana Khurana
Sr. Security Architect, Specialist at Amazon Web Services
Vana Khurana is Board Member and Director of Training at Cloud Security Alliance Delaware Valley Chapter. She also has a day job as Cloud Security Architect at a leading financial firm. In addition, she is a speaker, a mentor, and influencer and Professor Adjunct at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She holds CCSK, CCSP, CISSP, GSEC, AWS Architect, and TOGAF certifications. She loves the economy and growth of the public cloud and its c...
Shruti Kulkarni
Information Security Architect, Elexon
I am a security professional with experience across various domains of security. I work in defining organisation’s security strategy, security architecture and security practices. Translating business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services. I work on gap analysis, design, implementation and...
Roman Mesa Martinez
Cybersecurity & Cloud Director at Meta-Data
Dr. Victor Monga
CISO and Adjunct Professor at Virtually Testing Foundation
With the help of his Chapter, Victor helped create a CCSK study group, which met once a week for 6 weeks, covering the 6 domains of the CCSK online training course. There were 42 participants who registered for this weekly study group, and they made recordings and slides of each meeting available on the CSA LA/SoCal Chapter YouTube channel. In addition, 30 complimentary CCSK self-paced training course licenses were provided to individuals ...
Robert D. Morris
Lead Cyber Security Architect at MITRE
A cybersecurity expert with 16 years of experience ranging from incident response, forensics, solution engineering, risk management, compliance, security architecture, and leadership in industries such as high-tech, defense contracting, and public sector.
Reema Parappilly
Partner, IT Advisory Services at Weaver & Tidwell, LLP
Rich Phillips
Enterprise and Security Architect at Worldwide Technology
Sreekumar S
Vice President Cybersecurity Services at HCL Technologies
Rishi Sharma
Red Team Engineer at Virtually Testing Foundation
Stuart Shull
IT Specialist at United States Department of Agriculture
Paul Simmonds
CEO at Global Identity Foundation & Board Member of CSA UK Chapter
Paul is the CEO of the Global Identity Foundation and formerly the global CISO of AstraZeneca, ICI and prior to that Motorola Cellular Infrastructure. He is twice listed as one of Network World’s “most powerful people in networking”. He is a director of the Cloud Security Alliance (Europe), co-founded the Jericho Forum, and sits on the advisory boards of a number of global tech companies.
Raghvendra Singh
Head, Cloud Security CoE at Tata Consultancy Services
Saurabh Singh
Deputy General Manager at HCL Technologies
Prasad T
Head - Information Security at Verse Innovation
Wisnu Tejasukmana
Cloud Security Architect at SLB
Xavier Alonso Llauca Uchupailla
Cloud Security Engineer
Simon Wong
Associate Partner, Cybersecurity at EY
Oren Yeger
Owner & CSO, Cybricks.io
Founder | CSO | (ISC)² Israel Chapter Cloud Security Chair | Speaker | AWS Community Builder | DPO | CISSP | CCSK
Expert in Securing Financial industries in their journey to the cloud along side developing the C2M2 levels journey & CSPM plans
I have build a Cloud Security program in 4 companies 2 of them are Fortune 50 companies
I Drove the deployment and configuration of DSM encryption appliances to 4 geo locations in E...
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Alberto Manfredi
President and Country Leader, CSA Italy
MSc in Computer Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Milan with the highest marks and honors, he has been working in the Information Technology market for over 30 years, of which more than 20 in the field of Cyber and Information Security. Since 2002 he has been working at Leonardo SpA, where in recent years he has held the role of Divisional CISO and Senior Advisor in the Corporate Security function and ...
Keith Hartanft
Principal Security Architect, Enlyte Group LLC
George Alves
Professor, Cybersecurity Enterprise Team, Defense Acquisition University
Myriam Batista
Chief Information & Security Officer
Ms. Myriam Batista is the Chief Information and Compliance Officer at Reef Systems, a North Carolina-based company. Myriam has 20+ years of experience leading the implementation of cybersecurity and technology solutions in support of government agencies, educational institutions, and commercial customers. Most recently, Myriam’s focus has been on helping companies implement cloud security controls to achieve compliance with Federal Governme...
Alex Colyer
Zero Trust Project Manager
Alex Colyer currently serves as the Strategy & Planning Project Manager (CTR) for the Department of Defense's Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office (ZT PfMO).
Vaibhav Malik
Partner Solutions Architect, Cloudflare
Chandra Rajagopalan
Principal Engineer, Netskope
Chandra Rajagopalan is a seasoned professional in cloud security and software, with over 20 years of industry experience. With more than ten approved patents in cybersecurity and computing, Chandra's technical acumen and deep insights are evident. His contributions to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), particularly in Zero Trust, highlight his dedication to advancing cybersecurity standards. Notably, he played a pivotal role in developing t...
Maureen Rosado
Founder CEO, Pink Falcon Consulting Group, A women/black owned business
Maureen is the CEO and Principle at Pink Falcon Consulting. The consulting company is a global boutique cyber security company that focuses on Zero Trust Guidelines and the core principles. The main focus is education, implementation and facilitation at all stages. With a vendor agnostic portfolio of products, the goal is to provide a solution that is customized for your business. With 3 decades of technology experience with leading cyb...
Guillaume Boutisseau
Cloud Security Architect & CCSK Instructor
Guillaume’s experience encompasses technical hands-on, project management and architecture roles in the media, television, and advertising industries, for various small and large companies.
He’s worked on cloud migration and transformation projects for the last 5 years, and has developed a strong expertise in the technical, business and security aspects of cloud computing.
Guillaume holds CCSP, CCSK v3, CCSK v4, To...
Richard Lee
Director Architecture / Infrastructure Architect / Security Architect / Cloud Architect at R Lee Associates
Mohamed Malki
Training Development Expert
Mohamed Malki is an active member in Colorado cyber security community and global contributor to cyber security trainings and certifications. Mr.Malki is CISSP-ISSEP, CISA, CISM, CEH, Triple AWS Certifications (Arch, Dev, and Pract) , CSA CCSK, ISC2 CCSP, CompTIA Cloud+ and CSA+ Subject Matter Expert (SME). Mr. Malki is the director of enterprise security architecture and HIPAA officer with Colorado Governor Office of IT. Mr. Malki is the c...
Dr. Matthew Meersman
Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE & PhD Student
Faisal Yahya
Country Manager
As the CFaisal Yahya is a seasoned Cybersecurity Strategist with over 20 years of experience in the field. He has held pivotal roles as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), where he has been instrumental in crafting and implementing robust information security strategies. Faisal's expertise spans across cloud security, identity management, and IT governance, enabling him to bridge the gap between bu...