Ayman Elsawah is a vCISO, AWS Security Strategist, and founder at Cloud Security Labs which helps high growth start-ups launch security programs and level up their security maturity and operations. He has been involved as a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer with different organizations to help them build and implement a security strategy, apart from training and enabling an organizational security culture. He has also authored a book in Cybersecurity, and also runs a podcast “Getting Into Infosec”. Ayman was previously an adjunct Professor and Advisor at the De Enza college.

All too often cloud migration strategies are born out of the ambitious dream to decrease cost, improve security and/or productivity. Unfortunately, the reality of a cloud migration is often ill-planned and ill-equipped which leads to cost overruns, “Lift and Shift”, and inadequate security. Implementation of security in the cloud is VERY different from traditional data center security. Some factors to consider when migrating are stateless vs stateful applications, load balancing, disaster recovery, access control/keys, privilege management, as well as network security and monitoring. In this talk I will be going through the mistakes so many companies make and steps to follow to ensure an awesome and smooth migration to the Public Cloud.