Kennedy T. — Co-Founder

Thank you for visiting my profile! 🙌 🔥 I’m passionate about shaking up cloud security with fresh, innovative engineering practices. Creatively challenging the status quo is a precedent of my innovativeness; for example, it led me to become a pioneer of the security chaos engineering sub-discipline. I advocate that security systems should be validated continuously rather than following a trust-by-default mindset. Ultimately, this mindset emphasizes a shift from cybersecurity to cyber resilience. 🔥 Ultimately, I co-founded Mitigant to help organizations adopt practical, innovative cloud security solutions that go beyond the usual checkbox approaches. At Mitigant, we provide actionable insights and strategies that genuinely supercharge cloud security for our customers. We help our customers to identify and solve real problems rather than imaginary ones. 💥 As a 6x AWS Community Builder, I'm deeply involved in the AWS community, sharing my thoughts and experiences through various platforms. You'll often find me writing about the latest trends and findings in my blogs, publications and social media posts. 💥 I'm no longer active in academic research. My focus has shifted to industry research, where I can make a more immediate impact, using Mitigant as a vehicle. I invite you to explore some of my work and see if it helps you somehow: Check out my writings: 👉 Mitigant Blog: https://mitigant.io/blog 👉 Medium: https://run2obtain.medium.com 👉 dev.to: https://dev.to/run2obtain And my academic contributions: 👉 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kennedy_Torkura 👉 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OEiNSGAAAAAJ&hl Other interesting places to find me 👉 GitHub: https://github.com/SyCode7 👉 Speakerdeck: https://speakerdeck.com/ktorkura/ 🤝 Let’s connect and explore how we can push the boundaries of cloud security together!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Expert with a focus on innovative engineering practices.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Experience: 22 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Devsecops

Career Highlights

Pioneered security chaos engineering sub-discipline.
Co-founded Mitigant for innovative cloud security solutions.
6x AWS Community Builder sharing insights and trends.

Work Experience

Firebolt

Senior Cloud Security Researcher (3 mos)

Mitigant

Co-Founder & CTO (4 yrs 11 mos)

2hearts

Community Member (5 yrs 2 mos)

Mattermost

Cloud Security Engineer (6 mos)

data4life (formerly Gesundheitscloud)

Information Security Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Hasso Plattner Institute

Doctoral Candidate (12 yrs 6 mos)

Peculiar Technologies

Information Security Analyst (3 yrs 2 mos)

Network Administrator (6 yrs 9 mos)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy at Hasso Plattner Institute

MSc at Lancaster University

Post Graduate Diploma at Obafemi Awolowo University

Kennedy T.

Co-Founder

Berlin, Germany22 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered security chaos engineering sub-discipline.
Co-founded Mitigant for innovative cloud security solutions.
6x AWS Community Builder sharing insights and trends.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Expert with a focus on innovative engineering practices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityDevsecops

Other Skills

Information Security ManagementResearchAWSGoogle CloudChaos EngineeringTechnical Security ControlsVulnerability ManagementCloud Security OperationsVulnerability AssessmentPenetration TestingNetwork SecurityCloud ComputingMachine LearningAmazon Web Services (AWS)Java

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Experience

22 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Firebolt

Senior Cloud Security Researcher

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 3 mos

Worked directly with the CISO on various tasks including:
Research, understand and analyze cloud environments.
Architect, design, and provide implementation best practices of technical security controls and hardening guidelines.
Translating security analysis feedback into infrastructure and application improvements.
Define and improve security controls for internal and external systems, products, processes, and policies.

Cloud SecurityTechnical Security Controls

Mitigant

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Internet

✨ BUILD CONFIDENCE in your cloud security posture ✨

Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityInformation Security Management

2hearts

Community Member

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity:
2hearts is a (non-profit) community of people with immigration backgrounds from the tech scene (founders, investors, top executives) with the mission to help underprivileged minorities.

Mattermost

Cloud Security Engineer

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos

Vulnerability management for container ecosystems using several tools e.g. Docker Bench Security and Trivy Container Security Scanner.
Security incident response for the cloud infrastructure using several tools & strategies for triaging, analyzing and reacting to security alerts/events.
Deployed and managed several security tools used by the development and operations teams e.g. Teleport (a unified access control system) and Dependency Track (a continuous component analysis platform)
Cloud-native security operations for multi-account AWS infrastructure using tools including AWS GuardDuty, Cloudtrail, SecurityHub and Panther.
Leveraged GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and Packer) for cloud security.

Vulnerability ManagementCloud Security OperationsCloud Security

Data4life (formerly gesundheitscloud)

Information Security Engineer

Oct 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Berlin Area, Germany

Cloud security
Container security
Vulnerability assessment
Coordination & technical validation of HackerOne Bug bounty reports
Threat modelling sessions with technical & non-technical teams
Security Monitoring and Investigation (AlienVault, ELK)

Cloud SecurityVulnerability Assessment

Hasso plattner institute

Doctoral Candidate

Nov 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 6 mos · Potsdam, Germany

Most of my academic publications are available on this link - https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=OEiNSGAAAAAJ&hl=en
Conducted research on employing erasure coding techniques and cryptographic primitives to secure multi-cloud storage in collaboration with industrial partners (Bundesdruckerei & neXenio).
Leveraged open source tools e.g OWASP ZAP, Anchore, Netflix Eureka and Mattermost to design and develop a practical DevSecOps system to tackle container and application vulnerabilities while employing ChatOps for collaboration.
Designed and developed a prototype cloud security posture management system for proactively detecting and responding to malicious activities on AWS and Google cloud platforms.
Designed and developed Risk-driven Fault Injection, a novel technique for applying chaos engineering principles to cloud security.
Designed & implemented innovative security event correlation algorithms to support agile cloud security incident response.
Organised and taught academic lectures and seminars on cloud security engineering using project-based, software development approaches.
Tools/Tech
DevSecOps - OWASP ZAP, Anchore, Mattermost, OpenVAS, Jenkins, Arachni, ELK. Terraform, Datadog
AWS - SecurityHub, Guarduty, Config, Inspector, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch
Google - Stackdriver