Speaker
Nishit Sawhney
Director and General Manager - Application Services: API Gateway, ELB, Amazon CloudFront and Perimeter Security Services
AWS
Nishit Sawhney helps organizations worldwide build faster, more secure applications through his leadership of AWS’s Network Services and Edge Security portfolio. His team delivers solutions including CloudFront, Global Accelerator, WAF, Shield, Bot Management services Application Load Balancers, and API Gateway. As a product leader at AWS for nearly 9 years, Nishit shapes the strategy for edge network scaling, web application security, and content delivery. He works directly with large enterprises to solve their most complex performance and security challenges.
With 20 years in network and application security across AWS, Verisign, and DXC Technologies, Nishit combines technical depth with business acumen from UCLA Anderson School of Management and engineering expertise from Delhi College of Engineering.
Upcoming and recent events
CSO 100 Awards & Conference
Intelligent Threats, Intelligent Defense: The Agentic AI Playbook
Friday, May 15, 2026
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
AI-powered bots have evolved into autonomous agents capable of mimicking human behaviour and executing complex multi-step attacks, fundamentally reshaping the perimeter threat landscape. As adversarial tactics scale through agentic AI, organizations must rethink how they detect, disrupt, and defend at the edge. This session explores how AWS leverages massive- scale…
Bots, Agents, and the Battle for Trust: A Cross-Industry Security Challenge
Friday, May 15, 2026
17:30 PM - 18:30 PM
Bots and AI agents are no longer just a security concern — they are reshaping how businesses acquire customers, protect revenue, and maintain digital trust. Fraudulent sign-ups inflate acquisition costs, automated scraping erodes competitive advantage, fake engagement distorts business metrics, and account takeover directly impacts customer retention. As automated traffic…