About

Parag Patil is an Information Security professional with over 11 years of experience across multiple domains of security. He is currently working as the Manager of Cloud Security Engineering and Operations at Coupa Software, a Cloud SaaS based FinTech company. Parag is specialized in operationalizing security teams and functions from scratch to assure security services are built-in and not bolted-on. He possesses techno-managerial skills with hands-on experience in security research, designing/architecting security solutions/products, penetration testing, and ISMS. Parag has authored industry-wide used CIS security benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has experience in supporting cloud security functions like security architecture, security tools integration, security monitoring and incident response, vulnerability management, application security management, penetration testing, technical audits, programs to support compliance requirements, and vendor management. In his previous roles, Parag has worked as the Manager of Cloud and Containers Security Compliance Research at Qualys, where he identified, designed, and architected product features/workflows, built a strong cloud security research team from ground up, and researched and documented the threats impacting cloud workloads. He has also worked as a Principal Research Engineer at Symantec, where he conducted threat model and research on new platforms to develop security benchmarks/baseline documents, developed features to calculate security risk scoring, and conducted training sessions on Penetration Testing and newer technologies for team members. Parag has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune. His tech stack includes Research Scientist, test, AWS, Integration, Senior Software Engineer, Azure, GCP, infra, and Web. With a relevant experience of 15.96 years, Parag is a highly skilled and knowledgeable Information Security professional.