April 2019 Monthly Event
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Registration & Buffet
5:30 pm - Meeting Starts
5:30 - 6:30 - Session 1: Cyber Security Industry Challenges and AI-based Solutions
6:30 - 6:45 - ISACA SV Board Announcements
6:45 - 6:55 - Networking Break (15 minutes)
6:55 - 7:55 - Session 2: A Brief History of Zero Trust
7:55 - 8:00 - Raffle and Meeting Adjourn
Cyber Security Industry Challenges and AI-based Solutions
This session will focus on the Cybersecurity challenges that most companies and organizations face across all the industry verticals. So what is on top of a CISO’s mind? And how does he/she work to mitigate the risks and challenges that companies and organizations face in terms of Cybersecurity? Dr. Rayapati will provide solutions and options in terms of external/internal threat, endpoint/cloud protection, etc. followed by a few AI-based Cybersecurity case studies.
Dr. Venkat Rayapati, Founder and CEO, Cyber Forza
Prior to Cyber Forza, Dr. Rayapati worked as a President and CEO of SAI Technology. Previously he worked as Vice President of Design Engineering at Chartered Semiconductor, and served as Chief Technology Officer & Chief Operating Officer of Xalted Networks Inc. Dr. Rayapati also co-founded Portal Player Inc. (now part of NVidia) as their VP of Engineering & CTO. He has over twenty years of experience in Cyber Security, Wireless Video, and Artificial Intelligence. Before that he worked at Lucent Technologies as Director of Product Development, responsible for development of the broadband access products. He won Bell Labs President Award for the innovation of Stinger and Eagle Products. He held several technical positions at Nortel Networks, National Semiconductor (Chief Architect) and AMD (Architecture Manager of K6 &K7). Dr. Rayapati was also on the Board of Directors at Digital Video Systems Inc. and has held various technical advisory board memberships at Zarlink Semiconductor. Dr. Rayapati holds a Doctoral degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Montreal, Canada. He has also taught several courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz in emerging Wireless, Optical Communications, Telecom, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security related advanced technologies. Dr. Rayapati has published approximately 35 papers in various reputable International Journals and Conferences.
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Session 2 - A Brief History of Zero Trust
At this year's largest Enterprise Security gathering - RSA Conference 2019 - the term 'Zero Trust' was thrown around so much that it made the RSAC Buzzwords Top 3 List. However, while Zero Trust may indeed be one of the hottest topics in security today, it is not exactly new.
Tarun Desikan, Co-founder and COO, Banyan
Tarun Desikan is the co-founder and COO of Banyan, a San Francisco-based startup at the forefront of Zero Trust security movement. Banyan's Zero Trust Intelligent Access platform provides secure, continuous, least privilege access and authorization for applications, infrastructure and microservices hosted in the cloud or hybrid environments.
Tarun has over 15 years of experience developing and securing network infrastructure and distributed applications. Tarun and the Banyan team have pioneered the use of a Security Mesh architecture for transparent Zero Trust security for user-to-app and app-to-app communications.
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