Ariel Shuper specializes in cloud native security solutions for containerized micro services. In his daily job Ariel leads Cisco's cloud native security platform which is using Istio as its core technology. Ariel joined Cisco following the acquisition of Portshift, where he managed the platform roadmap plans and worked closely with its customers and the Istio community to address security aspects of containers’ and Istio deployments in multiple environments (Kubernetes, RedHat, Rancher, External CA usage etc.).
Prior to Portshift, Ariel worked on serverless functions security as an entrepreneur and then at Aqua Security as a GM of its server-less unit. Ariel is also involved with other cloud native security technologies such as container’ sandboxing. Prior to that Ariel spent 5 years in various roles at Check-Point Technologies, focusing on security posture and network security in public clouds.
Ariel speaks in multiple events such as KubeCon NA (2018, 2019) Cloud Native Security day 2020 (KubeCon day 0) Meet-ups and community events.