My Journey - Security Expert to Security Savvy CTO - with Mrinal Wadhwa, CTO Ockam

​Abstract

​Why more security experts should pursue the CTO career track.

​1. The state of our industry: a losing game.
2. The opportunity it creates: security and privacy as competitive advantages.
3. The role: what is the job of a CTO?
4. The path: how to get there from where you are in your security career?

​Speaker Bio

​Mrinal Wadhwa is the CTO and Co-Founder of Ockam.He has a background in distributed systems and applied cryptography. Over the last two decades, Mrinal has designed and shipped several products that are simple to use, massively scalable, and highly secure. For the past 6 years, he's led the development of Ockam, which is among the fastest-growing open-source security projects on GitHub. Mrinal is passionate about making it easy to build secure and private systems. This often involves complex cryptography, which is a powerful building block but also an area that is full of foot-guns. At Ockam, Mrinal and his team have created programming libraries and developer tools that make it simple for everyone to develop end-to-end encrypted, secure, and private applications.