Registration required: April 8, 2027, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Pacific Time | 2 CPEs
Session One – Cloud Security Architecture & AWS Security Governance: Lessons from a Regulated Fintech Environment, Srinivasu Bongu
Drawing from hands-on experience implementing CI/CD security guardrails and CIS Benchmark controls in a regulated fintech environment, this session covers practical strategies for building a scalable AWS security governance program. Topics include designing a cloud security architecture framework across identity, network, and data protection; embedding preventive security controls directly into CI/CD pipelines; and balancing security rigor with development velocity. The session shares real lessons learned, what worked, what didn’t, and what would be done differently for security practitioners looking to mature their own cloud security governance programs.
About Srinivasu Bongu
Srinivasu Bongu is a Cybersecurity Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience across cloud security, application security, security architecture, DevSecOps, security automation, SIEM/SOAR engineering, zero trust architecture, and enterprise cybersecurity program leadership. CISSP certified and an active ISC2 member, Srinivasu currently leads information security engineering at a fintech company in the San Francisco Bay Area, working directly with executive leadership on enterprise security strategy and programs. Srinivasu designed and led the implementation of a CI/CD security guardrails program based on CIS Benchmarks and is an active contributor to the Center for Internet Security communities, including the CIS communities.
Session Two – Making the Identity Secure, Web Frolic
The world of identity has moved at a great pace in the last decade. The security controls and practices have not yet evolved at the same pace. This session will open up and revisit some of the conventions and propose an alternative approach to managing Identity.
About Sandeep Dhankar
Sandeep Dhankar is Chief Technology Officer at Web Frolic.
About Web Frolic
Web Frolic is an identity platform that brings customer sign-in, workforce single sign-on, user lifecycle, access approvals and a support desk into one system. Employees, customers, service accounts and AI agents share a single identity model, so teams stop stitching together separate products.
