April Virtual Meetup: Panel - Zero Trust Access

IT landscape today is empowered by a connected world that is more susceptible to malicious activity due to its connectedness of software, assorted users, devices, and distributed applications and services. We need simple and secure methods of connecting and interacting with organizational resources, while also keeping malicious actors at bay for users and systems.

One of the buzzwords of the last year or so is "zero trust" - does this solve all the security problems of interconnecting?

Our panelists:
Vishwas Manral is the Head of Cloud Native Security and the Chief Technologist at Skyhigh security (formerly McAfee Enterprise). Manral was previously the CEO of NanoSec, a container security startup that was acquired by McAfee in August 2019. He has also held positions as the Chief Technologist at HPE & the founder of Ionos Networks. Vishwas is the co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Silicon Valley, and leads the effort on Serverless Security for CSA Global. He is an advisor to companies such as Spirent, Graphiant, Bootup Ventures and H.A.C.K. a Government accelerator for Cyber Security in Bangalore.

Aradhna Chetal serves as Managing Director Executive - Cloud Security at TIAA, a financial services company. She is responsible for the cloud security vision, strategy, standards, security patterns for a multi-cloud hybrid enterprise and engineer security solutions to support the vision. She has worked in various Cybersecurity leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Boeing Company, Microsoft & T-Mobile. Aradhna is an active member in the cyber security industry. She is Co-Chair of Cloud Native Computing Foundation Security TAG, Co-Chair for CSA Serverless Working group and a Cloud Security Alliance Research Fellow; she contributes to CNCF, Cloud Security Alliance and NIST Cloud computing standards, has influenced best practices & standards for cloud, containers and micro services security. She has also been providing expert guidance to a number of startups on security product roadmaps and feature development especially in the area of Identity & Access Management, Zero Trust and Container Security etc. She has a Masters in Cybersecurity, a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, a CISSP and CCSP from ISC2.org. Outside of work, Aradhna enjoys hiking, snow shoeing and volunteering for women's causes.

Mikhail Bragin is the co-founder and maintainer of Netbird, an open-source networking technology that allows companies and individuals to create secure private networks without the hassle of corporate networks. Previously he has held senior developer roles at PSafe Brazil and Searchmetrics.