Ramesh Nagappan

RAMESH NAGAPPAN, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CCSK is a security practitioner, technology veteran and blockchain enthusiast, who specializes in technologies related to Information Security, Cryptography, Identity Management, Cloud Infrastructure Security, Blockchain, and Compliance assurance solutions for building mission-critical security applications.

Currently, he is a security practitioner (in a Principal role) at Amazon. Previously he worked on different roles and responsibilities as part of Oracle Engineered Systems and Public Cloud initiatives, Sun Microsystems – JavaSoft involved with Java Security architecture and development teams and Sun Java Center involved with Security and Identity management architectures and implementation for citizen-scale national security applications, security-sensitive government organizations and large-scale financial enterprises.  Ramesh is the co-author of Core Security Patterns (Prentice Hall) and five other books on topics related to J2EE, EAI and XML Web services. He frequently speaks at industry conferences and contributes to industry standards (IETF, OASIS, JCP, Cloud Security Alliance) and open-source initiatives on Java, XML, and Security. Currently, Ramesh focuses on security technologies intended for Cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), Blockchain initiatives, PKI/Cryptographic solutions, Web Access Management, Identity Federation, IT Security/Compliance Audit assurance, Multi-level Labeled Security, and  Identity Assurance using PKI/Cryptography, Smart cards, and Biometrics.

Ramesh is an adjunct faculty and research director at Harvard University where he teaches Applied Cryptography and Security related topics.

Ramesh holds Masters degrees in Computer Sciences and Industrial Automation from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Applied Sciences with a concentration in Computer Science from Harvard University. He discontinued from his Ph.D without submitting thesis for a career at Silicon Valley. He plans to finish his PhD some day !

Ramesh holds several certifications in Security, Information Systems Auditing, Risk Management and Cloud Security from ISC2, ISACA and Cloud Security Alliance respectively. Ramesh is also holding AWS Certified Security Specialist,  and AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Assoc).

His personal home page and blog is http://www.websecuritypatterns.com. Ramesh can be reached at nramesh_at_post.harvard.edu.

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Ramesh Nagappan Books @Amazon.com: 

http://www.amazon.com/Ramesh-Nagappan/e/B001H6MGD0/

Ramesh Nagappan Presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/ramesh_r_nagappan

Core Security Patterns: Book Website

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