Aditya Sood
VP of Security Engineering and AI Strategy
Aditya K Sood (Ph.D) is the VP of Security Engineering and AI Strategy at Aryaka. With more than 16 years of experience, he provides strategic leadership in information security, covering products and infrastructure. Dr. Sood is interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud security, malware automation and analysis, application security, and secure software design. He has authored several papers for various magazines and journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, Crosstalk, ISACA, Virus Bulletin, and Usenix. He has been an active speaker at industry conferences and presented at Blackhat, DEFCON, HackInTheBox, RSA, Virus Bulletin, OWASP, and many others. Dr. Sood obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Michigan State University. Dr. Sood is also an author of the "Targeted Cyber Attacks" and “Empirical Cloud Security” books. He held positions such as Senior Director of Threat Research and Security Strategy, Head (Director) of Cloud Security, Chief Architect of Cloud Threat Labs, Lead Architect and Researcher, and others while working for companies such as F5 Networks, Symantec, Blue Coat, Elastica, and KPMG
