AI, Zero Trust, And The Future Of DevSecOps In A Cloud-First World – Nivathan Athiganoor Somasundharam

In this episode of the Security Repo Podcast, we dive deep into the evolving role of DevSecOps with Nivathan Athiganoor Somasundharam, a technical account manager at Teleport. He shares his journey from cloud engineering to becoming a DevSecOps practitioner, emphasizing proactive security, the elimination of secrets, and the future of identity-based infrastructure access. We also explore how AI can enhance DevSecOps practices and the cultural shift needed to embed security across development and operations.https://www.linkedin.com/in/nivathan/https://goteleport.com/Nivathan Athiganoor Somasundharam is a technical account manager at Gravitational Inc. DBA Teleport. He specializes in Zero-Trust implementation, identity security, and DevSecOps. He has a unique blend of experience in the cloud, working on Hyperscalers like AWS, GCP, Azure, and Security for them, which makes him an actual DevSecOps Practitioner.  An active contributor to the cybersecurity community, Somasundharam shares his expertise through blogs, webinars, and conferences focused on cloud infrastructure security. He is also a key contributor to the open-source VMware Carbon Black Harbor Adapter project. Beyond that, Nivathan enjoys cooking and snowboarding on the slopes.