Effective Approaches for Shift Left Security

The concept of shift left is not new, but it is more possible today thanks to how cloud native applications are designed and deployed. This session will look at some key threats associated with cloud native applications and examples of how shifting security left can greatly help an organization's security posture.

Speaker: Siddharth Deshpande
With over 15 years of experience in the technology and cybersecurity domains, Siddharth Deshpande is Palo Alto Networks’ CTO for the APAC region, focussed on the emerging areas of cloud native application security and security for the hybrid workforce.

In this role, he leads both business and technical focussed advisory engagements around cloud security to the largest corporations and government agencies in the region.

He joined Palo Alto Networks from Akamai where he was a key technology leader focussed on emerging cybersecurity domains across Asia-Pacific and Japan. Prior to Akamai, Siddharth spent almost a decade at Gartner where he was a strategic advisor to organizations across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region as well as globally around a variety of emerging and established cybersecurity domains.
Siddharth holds a Bachelor in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University in India