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“ Yes , a user does have an identity , but from an IAM perspective , a machine also has an identity – even certain elements of software have identities ”
ANDRES ANDREU CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER , 2U implies , amongst other things , the security of the systems that deliver that education . Homeschooling has a new face , and if home is where the heart is , then school is wherever learners want it to be .
Andres Andreu is the Chief Information Security Officer at 2U . His role entails overseeing everything to do with security , ensuring those educational potentialities are maximised by minimising the risk involved when such systems are online . “ I ' m responsible for the internal side of the house – or what is traditionally called IT security ,” he says , “ and I ' m also responsible for everything having to do with the customer-facing side of the house , which is where we engage with our partners , instructors and students – a larger ecosystem than the internal side . I also oversee SRE ( Site Reliability Engineering ) or DevOps and DevSecOps as well .”
As CISO , there could hardly be someone better fitted for the job at 2U . Andreu has a long and fruitful professional history , steeped in the expertise that such a position requires .
His career began in the early nineties , in a federal law enforcement agency in the US . At the time , Andreu was actually pursuing a career in law enforcement in the field , and “ through an interesting series of events ”, ended up on the tech-side , building what ' s called ' Title Three ' technologies or ‘ lawful intercept ’, wire-tap technologies . “ I really never looked back from there and fell in place with tech ,” he says .
Andreu began his tech career as a software engineer and also did some hardware engineering at that time . “ When I left the government , I basically ended up at a large international advertising agency and took over the entire global applications operation , which included everything on the application security side as well – and , in those days , APPSEC was in its infancy .
118 September 2022