Aditya K. Sood (PhD) is a cybersecurity practitioner with more than 16 years of experience working with cross-functional teams, management, and customers to create the best-of-breed information security experience. His articles have appeared in magazines and journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, ISACA, Virus Bulletin, and USENIX. He is the author of Empirical Cloud Security 2/E (Mercury Learning) and Targeted Cyber Attacks (Syngress). He has presented his research at industry leading security conferences such as Black Hat, RSA, APWG, DEFCON, Virus Bulletin, and others.