Evelyn de Souza

Senior Security Strategist at Cisco

Evelyn is responsible for championing holistic security solutions that address emerging industry trends such as cloud, data center SDN and mobile. She is a strong proponent of building automated, repeatable processes that enable organizations to sustain compliance while optimizing security posture and reducing costs. To this end, Evelyn co-chairs the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) which harmonizes regulations and industry standards to a common framework and according to cloud model to enable reduce audit complexity. Evelyn has a weekly column on WIRED Insights and frequently posts at CloudTweaks, Internet Evolution and 21st Century. Evelyn is also a regular speaker at industry conferences and can be followed on Twitter @e_desouza.