Akshay on the business of security : Connecting a Global team: the power of 30 seconds

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:46 PM Akshay Aggarwal

Connecting a Global team: the power of 30 seconds

One of the challenges I constantly grapple with is leading a large yet mostly remote team. Managing across 5 time zones posting I wrote about it earlier generated a lot of discussion and loads of ideas.

Recently we revisited this in the context of bringing together a 200-odd people org spread across more than a dozen time-zones. An idea suggested and brilliantly executed was to have each remote employee submit a 20-30 second video on themselves and compile it into a collage. The quirky compilation gave the team more of an insight into the lives of our remote team than large once a year meetings ever could.

We followed the 4 am commutes, the funny animations, scientific experiments and the upside down world of our people down under. I appreciate that it brought people's personalities to the forefront... if only for 30 seconds.

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Akshay Aggarwal is a security strategist and researcher. He is currently a Practice Manager for Microsoft Information Security’s ACE Team where he leads the information security consulting practice for North America. He is responsible for securing Microsoft’s ecosystem by developing a robust security practice, incubating new service lines & helping enterprise customers develop world-class IT security strategies. Previously as a Senior Security Technologist, Akshay was responsible for conducting architecture design, threat modeling, application security assessments and vulnerability research. He helped Fortune 100 clients evaluate the security of their software products and applications. He has authored several security research papers and been invited to speak at many forums like the RSA Security Conference and Black Hat briefings at Las Vegas. Akshay holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. There, at the renowned Computer Security Lab, he conducted research on Internet worms and intrusion detection systems.

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