Omar Santos — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director) at Cisco Systems, leading AI Security Research, vulnerability research, and disclosure.
Co-chair of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and chair of the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF), which led to the CSAF ISO standard.
Founder and co-chair of OpenEoX.
Author of over 25 books, 21 video courses, and over 45 academic publications.
Served on the board of the OASIS Open standards organization.

Biography

Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director) at Cisco Systems, where he leads Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security Research, vulnerability research, and disclosure. In this role, he collaborates with senior management, executives, engineers, and industry peers to investigate and resolve security vulnerabilities in Cisco products, including cloud services.

He has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune 100 and 500 companies, as well as the U.S.