Summary
Prabhakaran Kasinathan is a cybersecurity leader and research scientist with 11+ years of experience, currently heading Technology & Enablement for Electrification & Automation Cybersecurity at Siemens in Munich. He bridges deep academic rigour—holding a Dr.-Ing. on IoT workflow-aware access control—with hands-on product and cloud security work, driving decentralized trust, threat and risk analysis, and secure cloud/container adoption across global teams. At Siemens he has led high-impact EU projects and product security initiatives such as SiGREEN, contributed multiple inventions and patents, and served as a trusted advisor on decentralized trust architectures. Known for translating research into production-ready proofs-of-concept (including Hyperledger Fabric supply-chain and remote maintenance demonstrators), he combines technical depth with program-level delivery. Certified in advanced cloud security and penetration testing, he also engages the community as a keynote speaker and contributor to tech-for-purpose initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Communication Network Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing), Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing), Computer Science at Universität Passau
Tamil, English, Italian, Hindi, German