Topic: Cloud Security in the AI Era: Strategies for Risk, Resilience & AI Workloads
Abstract: As organizations rapidly adopt AI-powered applications and cloud-native architectures, traditional security models are struggling to keep pace. The convergence of AI and cloud is not only accelerating innovation but also reshaping the threat landscape. It introduces new attack surfaces, amplifying risks and challenging long-standing assumptions around trust and control.
The current webinar explores the need for security leaders to rethink defense strategies in an AI-driven cloud environment. From securing AI models, data pipelines, and APIs to addressing risks such as prompt injection, model manipulation, and shadow AI, the webinar will examine why conventional approaches are no longer sufficient.
The webinar will also highlight the shift toward adaptive, intelligence-driven security frameworks, including zero-trust principles, continuous validation, and AI-augmented threat detection. Join us to gain insights into building resilient cloud security programs that align with evolving compliance requirements while enabling innovation.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand the new risk landscape
- Rethinking trust models for AI-driven cloud environments
- Effective securing of AI workloads
- Leveraging AI for agile detection and response
- Aligning AI-enabled cloud security for evolving GRC
- Mitigating emerging attack vectors
- Leadership actions to build a future-ready strategy for cloud-first AI ecosystems
Speaker:
Jon-Rav G Shende, Global CTO, Data and AI, Thales Group
Bio: Jon-Rav G Shende is Global CTO for Data and AI at Thales Group and a former CISO, co-founder, and transformation executive with extensive M&A experience. Over 15+ years, he has built his perspective from the ground up through roles spanning networking, virtualization, cloud, cybersecurity, risk management, digital transformation, commercial growth, and AI strategy, enabling him to connect executive priorities across sales, operations, engineering, platform, security, and business teams.
Over the last 12 years, Jon-Rav has supported transformation, cloud, security, and services portfolios tied to more than $3B in contract value and revenue growth across global clients, leading technology and security organizations of up to 1,500 professionals. He has managed budgets from $5M to more than $100M and delivered transformation across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, security operations, data protection, and cyber resilience.
His cybersecurity leadership spans SOC transformation, incident response, ransomware recovery, breach leadership, cloud modernization, and software supply chain risk reduction across complex global operating models. Jon-Rav also brings strong systems integration and growth leadership from roles at Ernst & Young, Cognizant, and Accenture partnerships, contributing to 250% revenue growth in one organization.
His work aligns with major global frameworks including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and OWASP guidance for AI and LLM security.
