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Vinay K. Bansal is CTO and Principal Engineer for Cisco’s Cybersecurity/CSIRT team. In his current role he is responsible for technical leadership and running strategic security initiatives that includes cloud security, improving threat detection and incident response leveraging advancements in AI/ML. He previously held various roles including chief architect for Cisco’s 100+ cloud offers, global security lead for Cisco’s “Web and Application Security Architecture Team”, that improves security of Cisco’s 2000+ IT Web Applications, databases, mobile services. Vinay has 30+ years of industry leadership experience in securing and architecting innovative solutions. Prior to Cisco Vinay has worked at various Fortune 500 companies including IBM, AT&T, Nokia, Experian, and Plessey Telecom (UK). Vinay holds a master’s degree in computer science from Duke University.