Omar Santos
Distinguished Engineer, AI Security at Cisco
Omar Santos is a recognized leader in the cybersecurity community. He leads AI Security Research at Cisco as a distinguished engineer. He works with senior management, executives, engineers, and industry peers to investigate and resolve security vulnerabilities in Cisco products, including cloud services. Omar has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 100 and 500 companies and the U.S. government.
As the co-chair of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) Omar is helping develop new ways to automate security vulnerability disclosure and management. This effort led to the creation of the CSAF ISO standard, including support for the Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX). Omar served on the board of the OASIS Open standards organization, was the co-chair of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) PSIRT SIG, and led the DEF CON Red Team Village. He is the author of over 25 books, numerous video courses, and nearly 50 academic publications.