Senthil Masilamani: Securing the Future-Integrating Cybersecurity in Cloud and Hybrid Environments

Description

This presentation focuses on the challenges and strategies of maintaining robust cybersecurity measures across a diverse range of technologies, including cloud and hybrid environments, which are becoming increasingly common in today's IT landscape. It highlights the importance of leadership in ensuring security is a priority in these complex and varied technology setups.

Speaker

Senthil Masilaman
Chief Information Security Officer
Washington State Department of Ecology

Senthil Masilaman is at the forefront of building and implementing a comprehensive security program grounded in frameworks like NIST CSF and CIS Critical Security Controls. With a deep background in cloud technologies, he is a key member of a small, agile team architecting and driving the agency's hybrid cloud strategy. A passion for security, cloud innovation, and Artificial Intelligence fuel his mission to modernize Ecology's security posture in an increasingly complex threat landscape. He strongly advocates for collaboration among state agencies to enhance the overall security resilience of the state, ensuring the protection of the communities they serve. Senthil also contributes to state workgroups developing an enterprise Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution and the 141.10 re-write initiative.