Securing Cloud-Native Workloads: A Deep Dive into Achieving Zero Trust Through Effective Policies on AWS

Aradhna is a Managing Director Executive- Cloud Security at TIAA, a financial services company, she is responsible for the cloud security vision, strategy, standards, security patterns for a multi-cloud hybrid enterprise and engineer security solutions to support the vision. She has worked in various Cybersecurity leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Boeing Company, Microsoft & T-Mobile. Aradhna is an active member in the cyber security industry. She is Co-Chair of Cloud Native Computing Foundation Security TAG, Co-Chair for CSA Serverless Working group and a Cloud Security Alliance Research Fellow; she contributes to CNCF, Cloud Security Alliance and NIST Cloud computing standards, has influenced best practices & standards for cloud, containers and micro services security. She has also been providing expert guidance to a number of startups on security product roadmaps and feature development especially in the area of Identity & Access Management, Zero Trust and Container Security etc. Aradhna has a Masters in Cybersecurity, a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, a CISSP and CCSP from ISC2.org. Outside of work, Aradhna enjoys hiking, snowshoeing and volunteering for women's causes.

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the cloud native policy management company. Previously, Jim has held various leadership and engineering roles at companies such as Cisco, Pano Logic, Trapeze Networks, Bell Labs/Lucent, and Motorola. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as a co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy WG and a lead in the Multi-Tenancy WG. Jim is also a maintainer of Kyverno, the Kubernetes native policy engine.

Connect with Jim at @JimBugwadia or in/JimBugwadia.

Riccardo Freschi is a Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on Application Modernization. He works closely with partners and customers, to help them transforming their IT landscapes in their journey to the AWS Cloud, by refactoring existing applications and building new ones, Cloud natively.