Shanmugavel Sankaran has previously worked with Microsoft and IBM in a variety of information security and compliance management positions. Now Sankaran is the Chief Nixer - the founder of FixNix Inc for the last 8 years, a cloud-based Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) company. Apart from the GRC suite FixNix has analytics products that span across five major risk assessment components across different domains: audit management, Risk management, asset management, business resiliency, disaster recovery, policy management, incident management, board governance, privacy governance.
In his interview, Sankaran shared us the moments from his biography, company history, and his personal life.
• Mr. Sankaran, do you remember how and when did you start taking interest in computers and cyber security?
I started during my Microsoft days. I was a Database Administrator at Microsoft and I ran the Web Application Security Team for Microsoft, and afterward, I had a lot of interesting things to do at Microsoft. And then I worked with IBM. I had a couple of interesting goals managing cybersecurity architecture and a few other things for a ecommerce platform as their CISO. It's been an interesting journey.
• Do you remember when did the first idea that led to the creation of the company FixNix come up?
During my IBM days, I was trying to solve a couple of problems. There were a lot of opportunities with respect to web application security. And I saw that governance risk and compliance also was very important problems. I thought, okay, these are two problems I should seriously look at. So, when I became a kind of a start-up guy after quitt ..
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