Today’s ever-advancing cyber threat environment leaves no dispute about the critical role Security plays in ensuring enterprise systems’ availability and integrity. The Cloud Native Security Working Group focuses on the most pressing of these threats and trends. It seeks to provide understanding and guidance to Cloud practitioners through its blog series, webinars, podcasts, and conference sessions – emphasizing practical strategies for achieving cyber success. This session’s panel discussion explores Zero Trust strategies and practices in today’s large enterprise.
Michael is a veteran technologist with over 30 years’ experience in large enterprise computing. He began his career as a network and server engineer at Bausch & Lomb in the early days of distributed computing before moving on to Fidelity Investments and progressively larger systems management roles.
He finished up his time at Fidelity in Enterprise Architecture, where he focused on various platform infrastructure initiatives, including leading the effort to develop a unified compute platform strategy for the firm. Michael has spent the last decade engaged in an array of global professional services activities, working with private-equity firms and startups in healthcare data management and network security.
As a Core Organizer for the annual DevOpsDays Boston conference since 2017, Michael also co-founded “Boston DevOps Network, Inc,” a non-profit aimed at promoting DevOps learning and community-building in the Greater Boston area. Since 2015, he has worked with what is now the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group, where he is currently co-Chair with Forrest Bennett of FedEx. In 2019, Michael worked with Nick Lippis to launch ONUG’s first set of conference tracks focused on DevOps practices.
Today, he continues to consult on Cloud infrastructure and security projects and recently launched a new podcast series: “The Wages of Cybercrime.”
Cyber Security Advisor with FedEx Services, Inc. My current focus is on securing SDN and hybrid-cloud workloads as FedEx moves towards digital transformation and away from traditional L3 networks and data centers. In my role as Cyber Security Advisor I am called on to consult on many IT projects across the various operating companies that comprise FedEx. I am the team leader for the Network Security team that is responsible for implementing micro-segmentation, security analytics, identity services, and Wifi intrusion prevention among other security platforms and initiatives. I currently hold active ISC2 CISSP and GIAC GSEC certifications and have been a guest speaker on network and cloud security at various conferences including Proofpoint Connect, VMworld, and Future:NET.
My background is 30+ years of experience as a Network Security Engineer / Network Manager / Network Engineer working in the IS/IT division of various companies which span half a dozen industries and government agencies.
Ramani is VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at SecureX.AI. She is responsible for innovating, designing and creating a unified security platform over the last 18 months. Her focus has been on building an integrated visibility and attack surface management solution to handle the modern hybrid enterprise architecture.
She has over 18 years of experience in Cyber Security having started her career at McAfee. She was a very early employee of Palo Alto Networks, being part of the team that built the first Next Generation Firewall and disrupting the Cyber Security market. She was also Director of Security and Threat Research at ShieldX, creating the next generation security suite of products for the cloud.
Ted is an industry veteran with over 30 years’ experience in building, operating and scaling production environments. Using DevOps principles he is helping to change monolithic code into smaller manageable components while migrating services out into the Cloud. Making systems observable throughout the microservice creation and cloud migration.
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