Get Your Head Into Cloud Transformation

Apr 6, 2023

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Partha Chakraborty, security executive at Humana, joins host Amir Bormand in episode #230 of The Tech Trek. He and Amir explore the critical factors contributing to successful - and unsuccessful - cloud security projects.

Highlights

00:51 - Partha shares his perspective on what contributes to the successful adoption of Cloud security services.

09:20 - What is the “Fail-Fast” approach, and how does it apply to Cloud Security?

15:46 - How to keep matrix teams aligned on Cloud transformation projects.

22:48 - Partha offers advice for dealing with common (cloud security) challenges when adopting the Cloud.

About:

Partha has over 20 years of cyber security leadership experience in the financial services and healthcare industry. An active speaker and panelist in major cyber security conferences worldwide, and frequently called in for views and interviews in electronic media like The Economist, UK. Very passionate about learning new technologies and writing on recent groundbreaking cyber trends. He is also the founder of the Cloud Security Practitioner Council, a practitioner-driven forum to create security guidelines for the industry. Partha sits on the advisory board of a few security startups like Oak9 and TrueFort and on the Dean's Board at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Currently, he is heading up security architecture, engineering, and cloud for Humana Inc, a Fortune 46 healthcare company. Prior to Humana, Partha held executive leadership roles with Bank of Montreal, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and Guardian Life Insurance Company. A CISSP, CCSP, CEH, CHFI certified security evangelist holding a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from NIT Rourkela, a Master's in Cyber Security from Western Governors University, another Master's in Technology Management from Columbia University, a cyber security professional certificate from Stanford University and executive CTO university credit program from Wharton Business School and the University of Pennsylvania. Currently researching security challenges in API, Microservices, Key, and posture management space. Partha also has two patents under his name for JP Morgan and Humana Inc.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthasarathi-chakraborty-baa24810/

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