Gunter Ollmann serves as CSO within Azure’s Cloud and AI Security group and helps drive the cross-pillar strategy at Microsoft. He has over three decades of information security experience in an array of cyber security consulting, advanced research, and product engineering roles.
Before joining Microsoft, Gunter served as CSO at Vectra AI driving new research and innovation into ML and AI-based threat detection of insider threats. Prior to Vectra AI, he served as CTO of Domain Services at NCC Group, where he drove the company's generic Top Level Domain program. He was also CTO at security consulting firm IOActive, CTO and VP of research at Damballa, Chief Security Strategist at IBM, and built and led well-known and respected security research groups around the world – such as X-Force. Gunter is a widely respected authority on security issues and technologies and has researched, written and published hundreds of technical papers and bylined articles. | 
