Jay Thoden Van Velzen: How to Prepare Your Security Operations For a Multi-Cloud Future

In our 10th episode of the Future of Security Operations, Thomas speaks to Jay Thoden Van Velzen, Multicloud Security Operations Advisor at SAP. Prior to Jay’s current role, Jay scaled the SecDevOps team from 5 to 25 team members across three continents and five countries and was the Initiative Lead for multiple security improvement programs for Multicloud across SAP. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Understanding the scale and size of SAP and the unique security complexities the organization faces. 
• The state of security operations today. 
• How to overcoming the common challenges that security operations teams face today.  
• How teams can solve the talent gap in cybersecurity and how SAP tackles the problem. 
• Defining what SecDevOps is exactly. 
• Practical advice for those who are leading security operations at fast-growing organizations. 
• Why you may need to rethink your existing tooling to ensure its suitable for the public cloud.  
• What’s in store for the future of security operations.