Sara Manning Dawson

Highly accountable and results-driven engineering manager with several year's security leadership experience across GCP, Office 365 and Azure. - Evolved Microsoft's SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud services into trustworthy "safer-than-hosting-it-yourself" platforms through innovative security engineering at scale, including: - Cryptographically hardened Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access models for identity isolation and to deliver on the promise of "zero standing access" - Secrets, certificate and key management including strength, expiry, and health validation. - Data-at-rest, data-in-transit, and data-in-use protections including disk encryption, confidential computing, and proliferation of TLS 1.2 to protect communications - Vulnerability scanning, patch managment, and mitigation at cloud scale (hundreds of thousands of endpoints) - Touchless, high signal-to-noise security detections, response and mitigation that leverage the CI/CD process and the cloud service health platform via AI, machine learning, and automation - Cloud customer innovations including Office 365 Secure Score, Customer Lockbox, and Threat Finder - GDPR-ready security response and privacy solutions - Compliance leadership, delivering auditing and access management to support numerous compliance accreditations including FEDRamp and SOC