Priority With Clarity: Meet Ashwini Siddhi

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 16, 2024 / GoDaddy
Originally published on GoDaddy Resource Library

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your current role.

My name is Ashwini Siddhi, and I am based out of India. I hold a degree in Electronics Engineering, but my passion and expertise lie in the realm of cybersecurity. With years of hands-on experience in the industry, I've honed my skills in various specialized areas such as Security Architecture, Supply Chain Security Strategy, Privacy By-Design, Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), Ransomware Recovery, Threat Modelling, and Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), focusing on both cloud and application security.

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Beyond my professional endeavors, I'm deeply committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within the cybersecurity community. Actively engaging in various security forums, I serve as a mentor, particularly for women, championing their growth and advancement in the field.

As a Director for Product Security Engineering at the world's largest and trusted domain registrar, GoDaddy, I lead efforts to embed robust security measures from inception to deployment, fostering a culture of resilience and innovation. Additionally, as a trusted advisor to the organization, I provide strategic guidance to align our initiatives with a security-first approach.

What real-life problems does your team solve?

GoDaddy's mission is to "empower our worldwide community of twenty plus million customers - and entrepreneurs everywhere - by giving them all the help and tools they need to grow online."

Information security (Infosec) plays a crucial role in advancing GoDaddy's mission by focusing on a key aspect: ensuring the security and resilience of the tools offered to customers and entrepreneurs worldwide. This entails meticulously integrating essential security measures into the development process of these tools, thereby fortifying their robustness against potential cyber threats and attacks. In essence, Infosec contributes significantly to GoDaddy's overarching objective by safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the technology solutions provided, thereby empowering our users to navigate their digital endeavors with confidence and peace of mind.