Joe Vadakkan brings more than 18 years of global infrastructure architecture and security experience, focusing on all aspects of cyber and data security to his role of global practice leader, cloud security, for Optiv. Vadakkan's expertise in information security and IT infrastructure spans public and private sector companies across diverse industries, including aerospace and defense, software development, finance and insurance, healthcare, transportation logistics, retail, government, and consulting. Prior to his role at Optiv, Vadakkan worked and consulted at various Fortune 500 organizations building secure architecture solutions for 100s of clients in public cloud, building large scale ITO portfolio solutions for "big 10" IT service providers, designing secure public cloud for Iaas and SaaS consumption for a top 5 public cloud service provider, and architecting/implementing private cloud for government and defense programs.