Ovidiu Cical

Security Architect – OWASP Chapter Leader – Senior Software Developer - Cloud Security Expert and Security Advocate OWASP Cluj-Napoca Chapter Leader. Cybersecurity enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in the field of information technology, working with Go, Big Data, Python and Linux. I worked as Software Developer at Sophos/Astaro, Software Security Engineer at CoSoSys where I developed DLP Endpoint Protector and sensitivity.io (cybersecurity APIs). Now working as Security Lead with https://qio.io – Industrial IoT Analytics, Insights and Predictive Maintenance. At CoSoSys, I led the development of its flagship award-winning Data Loss Prevention Solution, Endpoint Protector as well as the ground-breaking APIs for sensitive data analysis and classification that were integrated into sensitivity.io and were born out of my vision for more data secure applications starting at platform level. In my free time, I enjoy giving back to the information security community and, as a board member of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)’s branch in Cluj-Napoca. Professional objective: To achieve my best in IT, especially in the Information Security area. To design and tackle security concerns and try to make everything I touch more secure; ultimately, I want to be able to innovate and maybe even disrupt the Cloud Security field.