Victor Mendoza, Principal Solutions Architect for Thales, is a cybersecurity expert with near two decades of experience in information technology with a focus on data security, perimeter defense, secure network design, application security, intrusion detection systems and risk assessments. Today he is a member of the Cloud Protection and Licensing solutions team working with companies in finance, healthcare, and the energy sector to streamline data security operations, accelerate growth and reduce risk to their most critical data and information from being disclosed, altered or denied access to. Previously, he worked for a managed web hosting company before delivering strategy consulting services and leading an encryption services team for an organization with global presence.