Ashan Willy

SVP, Systems Engineering and Customer Success
Proofpoint

Ashan Willy leads Proofpoint’s field technical services worldwide. He is responsible for the strategy and direction of Proofpoint’s technical go to market and support and service functions associated with the portfolio.

Ashan is active with Proofpoint’s global customer base, industry partners, industry peers as he strives to protect people & the information they create from a dynamic threat landscape.

Prior to Proofpoint, he has more than 20 years of leadership experience in engineering, product management, worldwide strategy & planning in global markets at companies like Webex, Juniper, Polycom and Cisco.

Ashan holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Pepperdine University in California and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

Day Two: Thursday, August 22, 2019

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

2:45 PM Protecting Your VIPs and VAPs (Very Attacked People) in the Cloud

There has been a material shift toward attacks that exploit people, with threat actors tricking their targets into running their malware for them, handing over their credentials, or simply sending data or money to an impostor.

In this session, we’ll explore strategies for gaining visibility and mitigating risk in a people-centric threat landscape. You’ll learn how to build a security program & maturity model around protecting people, why nearly all threat actors have shifted away from technical exploits to compromise their targets, how organizations can leverage threat data to understand which people and departments are highly targeted, and how to design effective protection for highly attacked, highly vulnerable, and highly privileged users.