Sudeep Venkatesh is a noted expert in data protection solutions, bringing over a decade of industry and technology experience in this area to Micro Focus Data Security. His expertise spans data protection in Hadoop and Big Data ecosystems, security infrastructures, cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, and the GDPR and PCI standards both for commercial and public sectors. He has worked on numerous global security projects with Fortune Global 500 firms in the EMEA region, US and internationally. At Micro Focus, Sudeep is Global Head of PreSales for Data Security, with responsibility over designing solutions for some of Micro Focus' largest customers in the end-to-end data protection portfolio. Prior to this, he was part of the Sales Engineering team at RSA Security where he designed technical solutions for some of its largest customers.