Tudor is the CIO and Managing Partner of Avaelgo – a Microsoft 2018 Country Partner of the Year company based in Eastern Europe (Romania). As an IT consultant with more than 15 years of experience in managing complex IT infrastructures, he is a Certified Ethical Hacker, a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP and a regular speaker at local and regional community events. Tudor often talks about the latest technologies and trends with themes including cloud and hybrid networking & security, virtualization technologies, social engineering and information security awareness, web application security, white-hat hacking and penetration testing techniques. He is also one of the organizers of the ITCamp conference in Romania bringing together tens of awesome speakers with hundreds of attendees every year.

Security & Compliance in the Cloud

Almost every business decision requires executives and managers to balance risk and reward, and efficiency in that process is essential to an enterprise’s success. Too often though, IT risk (business risk related to the use of IT) is overlooked. While other business risks such as market, credit and operational risks have long been incorporated into the decision-making processes, IT risk has usually been relegated to technical specialists outside the boardroom, despite falling under the same risk category as other business risks: failure to achieve strategic objectives. With the emergence of the Cloud, IT risk has suffered yet another radical transformation. The past couple of years have also brought along new vulnerabilities, exploits and attack methods, as well as new data privacy requirements such as the GDPR. While all of these things require significant changes to any existing processes and tools, they mostly require a different approach when catering to people’s IT security awareness, especially when moving to the Cloud.