Summary
Vic Hargrave is a cloud security veteran with over 20 years of experience designing behavior analytics, threat management, and content-filtering solutions for vendors including Trend Micro, VMware, and Everfox. As Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance Top Threats Working Group since 2015, he helps shape one of CSA’s most-downloaded annual reports that guides organizations on cloud risk and vulnerability management. He blends hands-on data engineering—ETL, parsers, and analytics for behavior-based detection—with platform integration and API evangelism to make security tooling more extensible and testable. Known for pioneering Elasticsearch usage in threat research and for automating datasets to validate ML models, he brings a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to detecting insider and cloud threats. Based in California with a Stanford BS in Electrical Engineering, he combines deep product engineering experience with a knack for translating research into operational security controls.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University