About

Cesare Garlati is one of the most quoted and sought-after thought leaders in the enterprise mobility space. Former Vice President of Mobile Security at Trend Micro, Cesare currently serves as co-chair of the CSA Mobile Working Group – Cloud Security Alliance.  Prior to Trend Micro, Mr. Garlati held director positions within leading mobility companies such as iPass, Smith Micro Software and WaveMarket.  Prior to this, he was senior manager of product development at Oracle, where he led the development of Oracle’s first cloud application and many other modules of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Cesare has been frequently quoted in the press, including such media outlets as The Economist, Financial Times, The Register, The Guardian, ZD Net, SC Magazine, Computing and CBS News. An accomplished public speaker, Cesare also has delivered presentations and highlighted speeches at many events, including the Mobile World Congress, Gartner Security Summits, IDC CIO Forums, CTIA Applications, CSA Congress and RSA Conferences.

Cesare holds a Berkeley MBA, a BS in Computer Science and numerous professional certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.

He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and son. Cesare’s interests include consumer electronics in general and mobile technology in particular.

Cesare’s biggest prediction for enterprise mobility in the next 12 months: “The odds dictate that there will be a major security case during 2013 due to consumer mobile technology in the enterprise – so called BYOD. Mobile security and mobile malware will become mainstream themes.”

*** Selected as one of the “mobile industry’s top 180 influencers” by VentureBeat 2013

*** Recognized as one of the “Top 10 Consumerization Thought Leaders” 2011

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Speaking Engagements

Cloud Connect 2013
April 2 – 5, 2013, Santa Clara, CA
“Security in the Mobile Cloud World”

VentureBeat Mobile Summit 2013
April 1 – 2, 2013, San Francisco, CA
“What’s next for enterprise?”

AppNation 2012
December 12, 2012 – San Francisco, CA
“The state of security in the mobile enterprise”

Mobile Device Security Conference
December 5 – 6, 2012 – London, UK
“Strategies for dealing with an enterprise MDM deployment”

Cloud Security Alliance Congress 2012
November 7 – 8, 2012 – Orlando, FL
“Guidance on Mobile Computing and the Cloud”

RSA Conference Europe 2012
October 9-11, 2012 – London, UK
“Smartphone Security Winners & Losers”
“The Dark Side of BYOD – Privacy, Personal Data Loss and Device Seizure”
“10 Reasons Not to Virtualize: The Security Perspective”

Mobile 2.0 Conference
September 11, 2012 – San Francisco, CA
“Mobile Enterprise & Consumerization of IT”

RSA Conference China 2012
August 28-29, 2012 – Chengdu, CN
“Smartphone Security Winners & Losers”

DIRECTION EXPO 2012
August 7-8, 2012 – Tokyo, JP
“Mobile Security”

EEMA – European Association for e-Identity and Security
July 5, 2012 – Slough, UK
“Security Mobile Devices”

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
June 20, 2012 – London, UK
“Security for Mobile Devices”

Ingram Micro Cloud Summit
June 4, 2012 – Phoenix, AZ
“How secure is your smartphone?”

BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
May 16, 2012 – London, UK
“Consumer Mobile Technology in the Enterprise: A leap of faith?”

Mobile Convention Amsterdam
May 8, 2012 – Amsterdam, NL
“Consumer Mobile Technology in the Enterprise: A leap of faith?”

Tablet Strategy Conference
April 27, 2012 – New York, NY
“Secrets of a good corporate app”

ISSA – Associazione Italiana Professionisti Sicurezza Informatica
April 5, 2012 – Milano, Italy
“Roundtable: Consumerization, Millenials and Mobile”

Information Assurance Advisory Council
March 13, 2012 – London, UK
“Education and training in security awareness”

Mobile World Congress 2012
February 27 – March 1, 2012 – Barcelona, Spain
“Consumer technology in the enterprise: A leap of faith?”

IDC Enterprise MobileNext Forum
December 1, 2011 – San Francisco, USA
“Mobility Management and Security. A customer panel.”

CTIA Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp
October 10 – 13, 2011 – San Diego, USA
“Consumerization Report 2011″

Gartner Security Summit 2011
September 19–20 – London, UK
“Embrace Consumerization. Unlock Opportunity”

Channel Link 2011
September 14–16, 2011 – Los Angeles, USA
“Embrace Consumerization. Unlock Opportunity”

IDC Asia/Pacific CIO Summit 2011
July 28-29, 2011 – Singapore
“The Consumerization of IT: Embrace Consumerization, Unlock Opportunity”

Mobile Computing Summit 2011
June 28-30, 2011 – San Francisco USA
“Mobile Landscape Security Risks and Opportunities”

Gartner Security Summit 2011
June 20–23, 2011 – Washington, USA
“Virtualization, Consumerization, Security Three Worlds Collide?”