The Detroit CSA Welcomes Keyfactor & Wiz!

850 Tower Drive,Troy MI 48098

04 April, 2023

Description

Keyfactor: In this Keyfactor presentation, Ted Shorter, CTO, will share his 20-year experience in the PKI industry, including what the lessons of the PKI past can teach us about the future as we approach yet another crossroads: Post Quantum Cryptography. From the Internet to the Internet of Things (IoT), PKI has been and continues to be the bedrock of trust in our digital world. Just when we think PKI has reached its limit, another innovative use case emerges – from e-commerce to the cloud, e-passports to planes, trains, and automobiles – PKI is everywhere. Ted Shorter is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Keyfactor. Responsible for Keyfactor’s Intellectual Property development efforts, Ted helps align Keyfactor’s focus with the changing security landscape, ensuring our clients understand the importance of crypto-agility. Ted has worked in the security arena for over 25 years in cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, authentication and authorization, and software vulnerability analysis. His experience includes ten years at the National Security Agency, a master’s degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and an active CISSP certification. Personal Highlights – Ted lives in Akron, Ohio, with his wife Marcie and two sons, Christopher and Caleb. Ted is an accomplished musician who played in a rock band in Baltimore, MD for several years. He is a passionate sports fan and actively follows baseball, football, and various forms of auto racing. Ted has held notable speaking engagements at RSA 2005 – San Francisco, RSA Power Days – Chicago & New York, and FDIC Threat Briefing – Washington, DC. Wiz: The cloud has helped organizations fast track their digital transformation, especially during the pandemic. It allowed organizations to ensure dependability and flexibility during a time when many of their workers needed to stay home. However, quick migrations often lead to mistakes more commonly known as misconfigurations. According to the NSA, cloud misconfiguration is the top vulnerability in a cloud security environment, and although these risks are often low in sophistication, misconfigurations have been among the leading causes of massive financial and reputational harm in enterprises and government entities. Thus, organizations need to know the commonly occurring misconfigurations and understand governance strategies to prevent and mitigate them. In this presentation, Sriya will discuss how and why working in the cloud is fundamentally different and dive into how organizations can create better governance in the cloud, given new working models and threats, so that they can ensure secure configurations. Sriya Potham has spent the past 6 years building and leading state of the art cloud security programs. At Wiz, she is the Field CTO of the Americas helping customers design and optimize their cloud security programs to effectively manage their cloud risk. Prior to Wiz, she was a Principal Cloud Security Architect at United Airlines where she transformed the cloud security program by heavily leveraging automation to provide better governance and efficiency.