Shawn Chakravarty

Shawn Chakravarty teaches security leadership from the point where incidents, intelligence, cloud risk, and business pressure all need to be handled at once. A SANS Certified Instructor and Sr. Director of Active Defense at Upwork, he teaches LDR512: Security Leadership Essentials for Managers, bringing real-world experience in security operations, cyber threat intelligence, incident response, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, and application security into the classroom. His work building and leading enterprise security programs helps students connect the course material to the decisions security leaders make when teams, tools, budgets, and business risk all meet at once.