Kaarthik Sivakumar

Kaarthik Sivakumar is a principal engineer in the Cisco Security Business Group, working in the Multi-Cloud team that comprises the Secure Workload and Isovalent products. He focuses primarily on microsegmentation platforms and policies. Kaarthik has been working in the industry for 26 years, ranging from routing protocols, forwarding tables, DWDM optical line system, and Cisco Secure Firewall. Kaarthik has spent many years in product security and trusted network infrastructures, such as using Trusted Platform Module for storing confidential material and validating the trust status of a device, topics on which he has published blogs on the Cisco Blogs platform. He has also published in IEEE journals on the security of microservices architectures and static analysis security testing. As an ACM India Eminent Speaker, he is invited to lectures in ACM chapters around the country on the topic of security and trust. Kaarthik resides in Chennai, India. He contributes some of his free time to open-source projects and tools to improve his personal life, some to his study of the Sanskrit language, and the rest to outdoor activities.