Ashish Kedia
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Ashish Kedia
Additional Info
| Job title of nominated professional (or team name) | Staff Software Engineer |
| Company (where nominated professional or team is working) | |
| Website | https://www.google.com |
| Company size (employees) | 10,000 or more |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
Ashish is a staff software engineer and engineering manager who leads Google’s Workspace Security Team. His work include researching emerging cybersecurity trends and building solutions to protect Google Workspace users and their digital assets like data and identity.
He is responsible for building Google workspace’s distributed low-latency security infrastructure evaluating millions of access requests to from Workspace users every second. He is an inspiring thought leader in the cybersecurity area.
His outstanding contributions and sustained achievements in the area of cybersecurity has had significant impact in the industry as a whole.
Accomplishments
Ashish has lead Context Aware Access - Google Workspace's Zero Trust product offering to evaluate every access to their organization's resources by specifying AccessPolicies (rules). The product has received a lot of media attention :
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/google-extends-its-beyondcorp-security-model-to-g-suite/.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/10/30/g-suite-access-controls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HelpNetSecurity+%28Help+Net+Security%29
The offering is already used by millions of users and has generated significant revenue for Google Workspace.
Ashish was also the key TL in designing an launching Google Workspace Tools for controlling 3rd party Access to customer's workspace resources which has received significant media coverage :
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-manage-third-party-app-api-access-in-google-workspace/
Ashish is also the key person leading several account security efforts to protect credential theft and prevent abuse for Google’s consumer and workspace users alike. Some of our protections include Device Bound Session Credentials : https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/google-chrome-beta-tests-new-dbsc.html
Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol - I am one of the key TL pioneering development of a whole new industry-wide protocol for sharing security signals between different Identity and service providers. I collaborate with industry leader across the organization as part of OpenId's Shard Signal Working group : https://openid.net/wg/sharedsignals/.
Ashish's work has contributed to significant revenue and protecting million of users across the globe. There are very few security professions who has that kind of global impact.
