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Arun Kumar Elengovan
Okta, Inc.
Director, Engineering Security
Additional Information
Arun Kumar Elengovan has built his career around advancing trust and security in a rapidly evolving digital world. As Director of Engineering Security at Okta, he leads global teams that protect identities for millions of users and drives security programs that scale with innovation. His work spans cryptographic agility, automated secrets management, ephemeral certificates and AI powered threat modeling, all designed to strengthen security while keeping it seamless.Arun is an active contributor to the global security community. He has reviewed and judged more than one hundred and sixty technical papers across respected journals such as IEEE Access, MethodsX, and the Security and Privacy journal, and he supports conferences including IEEE events. He shares thought leadership as a Forbes Technology Council member, Gartner Information Security Ambassador, Advisory Council Member at Products That Count, Distinguished Fellow of SCRS, and Fellow of BCS and IETE. He frequently delivers keynote speeches on software engineering and security topics and mentors engineers, managers, and students to translate technical depth into strategic impact.
Arun has authored two books currently circulating in India. The first is Securing Cyber Physical Systems Protecting Critical Infrastructures, and the second is Secrets Management System Architecting Trust in Modern Infrastructure.