Ricardo Ferreira is a Field CISO at Fortinet. He serves as an advisor to help organizations and CxOs establish their security posture at scale. With over 15 years of experience working on disruptive technology such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and DevOps. Ricardo leverages Fortinet's capabilities to enable security-driven business transformations.
Ricardo has had various roles, always connected to innovation in Cisco, Rackspace, HSBC, and EY. He has worked with some of the largest financial institutions to adopt Cloud platforms ensuring compliance, risk, and regulatory needs.
He volunteers to advance cybersecurity standards, working with Cloud Security Alliance and Cloud Native Computing Foundation to establish new standards and guidelines. He has just published a book on PolicyOps to help organization accelerate their transformation journey