Evolution of Cloud Security: From Shared Responsibility to Shared Fate

The rapid adoption of digital technologies and remote or hybrid working is now an accepted part of society. The pandemic forced companies to adapt swiftly and many have turned to the cloud to help their digital acceleration. According to McKinsey cloud adoption has been accelerated by three years compared to pre-pandemic adoption rates. Gartner is also estimating that spending on public cloud services will exceed $480 billion next year.
In this episode, Sebastian Cano of Thales and Sunil Potti of Google join host Neira Jones to discuss the key challenges of more workloads and data being moved to the cloud in our new hybrid world, and how Thales and Google Cloud are working together to enable customers to fulfill their part of the shared responsibility model for cloud security.

Sébastien Cano

As the Senior Vice President of Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing, Sébastien Cano leads a global business focused on helping organisations and the most respected brands in the world protect their most sensitive data, secure the cloud, and create more value for their software in the devices and services used by billions of consumers every day. He is responsible for the business and strategy for the company’s industry-leading data encryption, identity and access management and software monetizations solutions.

Over the past twenty years’ Sébastien has proved himself as a global leader of high growth businesses in the highly competitive security, telecommunications and financial services industries. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Gemalto’s Enterprise & Cybersecurity business unit. Prior to that he was President of Gemalto North America (2014 – 2016), responsible for all business operations across the region, and before that he managed the company’s Telecommunications Business Unit in North America for five years. During these two previous assignments, he led the transformation of Gemalto into a leading provider of software, solutions and services to Fortune 500 Corporations.
Prior to these positions, he served Gemalto in a number of leadership roles including SVP Convergence Business Group in France, VP of Operations in Brazil during the country’s EMV migration and General Manager of the Telecommunications Business Unit for southern Europe.
Sébastien has a master’s degree in Technology Management from Grenoble École de Management.
You can connect with Sébastien on LinkedIn.

Sunil Potti

Sunil Potti is General Manager and Vice President of Cloud Security at Google Cloud. In his role, he focuses on bringing the best of our Google Security practices to the GCP platform and our enterprise customers.

Prior to Google Cloud, Sunil served as the Chief Product & Development Officer at Nutanix, and previously as its Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Management. Before Nutanix, Sunil led the Citrix NetScaler business for over five years of record growth. He has a B.E. in Computer Science from Osmania University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.

You can connect with Sunil on LinkedIn.