Demystifying and Navigating Cybersecurity Careers

Cybersecurity is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that offers a wide range of career opportunities across industries. However, for many aspiring professionals, understanding the diverse career paths, required skill sets, and industry expectations can be overwhelming. This seminar aims to demystify cybersecurity careers by providing insights into key roles, skill development, and strategies for career progression. We will explore various domains such as offensive security, defensive security, governance, risk management, and compliance, along with emerging areas like AI security and cloud security.

 Anupam Mehta à Product Security Engineer, Stripe

Anupam Mehta is a distinguished Security Engineer with over a decade of expertise in threat modeling, infrastructure security, DevSecOps, and application security. He currently serves as a Product Security Engineer at Stripe, where he leads security assessments for core and critical systems, ensuring the integrity and resilience of Stripe’s infrastructure. His work involves deep-dive security evaluations of software supply chains, reinforcing the security of modern cloud-native environments.

Anupam holds a master’s degree in security informatics from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's in Information Technology from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is proficient in a wide range of security tools, programming languages, and cloud-native technologies, including Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and IaC frameworks. His deep technical expertise, combined with a passion for strengthening software supply chain security and cloud infrastructure, makes him a recognized leader in the cybersecurity domain.

Aditya Patel  à Security Solutions Architect, AWS

Aditya Patel is a cybersecurity leader, researcher, and blogger with over 15 years of experience in information security, cloud architecture, and machine learning. As a senior security architect, he specializes in designing secure, scalable solutions with a focus on AI safety, large language model (LLM) security, and compliance. Aditya has led numerous enterprise cloud migrations, developed cloud-native security programs, and implemented container security accelerators for technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Holding a master’s degree in Cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from Jaypee University of Information Technology (India), Aditya has contributed to academic research on email security and regularly shares insights through public speaking engagements and his blog (secwale.com). He has trained hundreds of professionals globally on advanced security practices and remains deeply engaged in mentoring and advising on strategic security initiatives.

 Larry Denton  currently serves as CACIs’ Vice President for Enterprise Cloud Solutions. Leveraging over 25 years of experience in senior Government and Industry leadership roles, he is responsible for delivery, growth strategy, and customer relationships.

Prior to coming to CACI, his Government experience included positions on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Deputy Director Legislative Affairs for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intel and Analysis (I&A) as well as Deputy Program Executive Officer (PEO) at the National Security Agency.  On HPSCI he was responsible for organizing and executing over 50 classified briefings for Congressional members allowing oversight across the Intelligence community. At DHS he lead coordination of all communications and activity from DHS to 16 Intel agencies and 7 Congressional oversight committees. In his role as Deputy PEO at NSA his portfolio included several billion dollars in contracts and programs, included two Major Automated Information Systems (MAISs).

In Industry, he was most recently President and Chief Growth Officer at a mid-sized Industry leader in cloud solutions. He has also held roles as Senior Account Executive at a large telecom firm and has been Capture Manager and Vice President, Business Development at two large defense companies. These roles included responsibility for a 5B+ pipeline, well over 1B in annual submissions and achieving nearly $500M in Awards. His Business Development roles have included both Domestic and International responsibilities as well as commercial and Government customers.

Throughout his career, Larry has been involved in all aspects of the Intelligence community and is dedicated to serving the warfighter. Larry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy (1993) and is incredibly proud to have served in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer. He resides in Severna Park, Maryland with his wife, twin daughters and son.

Larry’s passion outside of work is youth sports. Additionally, he enjoys running, having completed numerous marathons as well as the JFK 50 miler two times.

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