Andy Ellis
About
Andy Ellis is from Greater Boston. Andy is currently Executive Board Member at Cole Strange Foundation. Andy also works as Advisory CISO at Orca Security, a job Andy has held since Sep 2021. Another title Andy currently holds is Operating Partner at YL Ventures. In Andy's previous role as a Advisor at Orca Security, Andy worked in until Aug 2021. Prior to joining Orca Security, Andy was a Venture Advisor at YL Ventures and held the position of Venture Advisor. Prior to that, Andy was a Chief Security Officer at Akamai Technologies from Jul 2011 to Mar 2021. Andy started working as Affiliate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in Sep 2014. From Sep 2016 to Sep 2020, Andy was Advisor at Uptycs, Inc.. Prior to that, Andy was a Senior Director of Information Security at Akamai Technologies from Jan 2005 to Jun 2011. Andy started working as Chief Security Architect at Akamai Technologies in Nov 2000.
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Andy Ellis's current jobs
YL Ventures funds and supports brilliant Israeli tech entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages over $800M and specializes in cybersecurity. YL Ventures accelerates the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and US-based operational execution, leveraging a powerful network of CISOs and global industry leaders. The firm's track record includes investment in Israeli cybersecurity unicorns Axonius and Orca Security, as well as successful, high-profile acquisitions by major corporations including Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, CA and Proofpoint.
Leads Duha's consulting practices, provides executive vision to clients.
Andy Ellis's past jobs
In his 20 years with Akamai, he was a driving force behind transforming the company into a major security player – growing its security business to more than $1B in annual revenue, while also governing risk across the business. He designed and brought to market Akamai's TLS acceleration network, its DDoS defense offerings, and several of its security solutions. He guided Akamai's IT transformation to a distributed, zero-trust enterprise based on strong authentication. In addition to creating a safe and secure platform for its customers, Andy was instrumental in driving adoption towards compliance standards such as PCI and FedRamp that were critical to Akamai’s growth. He developed the Severe Vulnerability process that is the foundation of identifying and mitigating risks quickly on Akamai’s platform, led its vulnerability management strategy, and under his leadership, grew representation of women in its information security team to more than 40%.
Andy Ellis serves as Akamai’s Senior Director of Information Security and Chief Security Architect, responsible for maintaining the security architecture of the company's massive, globally distributed network as well as setting the strategic direction of its security offerings and managing the Information Security program and team at Akamai. Mr. Ellis provides security education and leadership to Akamai¹s world-class R&D team.
• Designed, implemented, and operated ESSL, Akamai’s TLS content delivery network. (Patent:EP1533970B1) • Designed, built, and brought to market Site Shield, Akamai’s first pure security product. (Patent: US7260639B2) • Product manager and architect for many security products: DDoS Defense, WAF, EdgeTokenization, et al. • Established Akamai’s Architecture Reviews, a twice-weekly review of technologies under development. • Build numerous workflow management tools, including the company’s vacation tracker. Oversaw the migration from accrued Vacation to non-accrued Time Off. • Designed the DDoS resilience architectures across Akamai’s platforms, including DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS.
Andy Ellis serves as Akamai’s Senior Director of Information Security and Chief Security Architect, responsible for maintaining the security architecture of the company's massive, globally distributed network as well as setting the strategic direction of its security offerings and managing the Information Security program and team at Akamai. Mr. Ellis provides security education and leadership to Akamai¹s world-class R&D team.