Sudeep Padiyar is a Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks focusing on network security for Kubernetes and Containers. He was one of the original proponents of extending NGFW technology to containerized applications resulting in the CN-Series product line. He has worked closely with AWS, GCP, Azure to ensure Palo Alto Networks CN-Series products fits in their managed Kubernetes offerings. He also works closely with the Prisma Cloud team on a consolidated security strategy for Containers within the company. Prior to that he was managing virtualization security in hybrid clouds like VMWare NSX, Openstack, etc and pioneered features for effective security deployment in the cloud. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Sudeep was a Senior Product Manager at Cisco in Data Center (ACI) and Campus Switching. Before moving to Product Management, he was a Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco in IOS-XR for Virtualization and High Availability features for the largest routers in the world.