IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Secure Application Development (Level 200)  

Join this webcast to learn how Microsoft IT’s Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) team secures Microsoft’s internal business applications.  The ACE team will share state of the industry, application security challenges, and how application security fits into the development lifecycle for IT.  Learn about the ACE team’s methodology and processes developed in the areas of application security and performance optimization.

Presenter: Akshay Aggarwal, Microsoft IT Security Practice Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Akshay Aggarwal is a security strategist and researcher. He is currently a Practice Manager for Microsoft Information Security’s ACE Team where he leads the information security consulting practice for North America. He is responsible for securing Microsoft’s ecosystem by developing a robust security practice, incubating new service lines & helping enterprise customers develop world-class IT security strategies.

Previously as a Senior Security Technologist, Akshay was responsible for conducting architecture design, threat modeling, application security assessments and vulnerability research. He helped Fortune 100 clients evaluate the security of their software products and applications. He has authored several security research papers and been invited to speak at many forums like the RSA Security Conference and Black Hat briefings at Las Vegas.

Akshay holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. There, at the renowned Computer Security Lab, he conducted research on Internet worms and intrusion detection systems.