Speaker:
Sanket Naik
Palosade

Abstract: The frequency, materiality, and impact of cybersecurity incidents is at a level that the business world has never seen before. CISOs are at the forefront of this. The speaker has experience with developing cybersecurity products and managing IT infrastructure and security from startup to massive scale. The talk will go through the roles, responsibilities, rewards, and perils, of being a CISO in a modern enterprise software company in these turbulent times. We will explore some hard problems that need to be solved for the good guys to continue winning.

About: Sanket Naik is the founder and CEO at Palosade, building modern AI-powered cyber threatintelligence solutions to defend companies from AI-weaponized adversaries. Heenjoys giving back to startups through investing and advisory roles.

Before Palosade, he was the SVP of engineering for Coupa. In this role, he built the cloud and cybersecurity organization, over 12 years, from the ground up through an initial public offering followed by significant global growth. He has also held engineering roles at HP and Qualys.

Sanket holds a BS in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai and an MS inCS  from Purdue University with research at the multi-disciplinary CERIAS cybersecurity center.

The weekly security seminar has been held every semester since spring of 1992. We invite personnel at Purdue and visitors from outside to present on topics of particular interest to them in the areas of computer and network security, computer crime investigation, information warfare, information ethics, public policy for computing and security, the computing "underground," and other related topics. More info