About Me
Sai Kiran Uppu is a Senior Security Researcher in Adobe's Cybersecurity Threat Research & Intelligence (CTRI) team, where he focuses on AI-driven threat intelligence and cloud security. He architects and runs Adobe's threat intelligence and fleet sweep platform and has built agentic AI threat intel pipelines to stay ahead of adversaries. He is the author of the Adobe Security Blog article Building an agentic AI-powered threat intelligence platform (March 2026). He is a 2026 Gold Award winner for AI Security Innovator of the Year at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards and has placed first in the Recorded Future CTF at RSA Conference. He holds an MS in Security Informatics from Johns Hopkins and is certified in CISSP, GCTI, and AWS Security - Specialty. He has spoken at IEEE SVCC, The Diana Initiative, BSides SLC, Penn State, and was invited by Johns Hopkins as a panelist for Security Metamorphosis 2026. He has judged for the Monterey Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge and student hackathons.
He also holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Vellore Institute of Technology (India). He is passionate about designing large-scale secure systems with a focus on Cloud Security, Application Security, and Threat Intelligence. His expertise includes detecting cloud threats at scale, developing automated security pipelines, and implementing proactive threat hunting frameworks. He has worked extensively with AWS environments, aligning cloud infrastructure with enterprise security policies and strengthening security controls.
His recent focus has been on Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly LLM security. He is interested in understanding and mitigating security vulnerabilities in these systems, including attacks like jailbreaking and prompt injection. He works on defenses against adversarial techniques that attempt to bypass safety guardrails in LLMs, and on the broader implications of these technologies for cybersecurity. He actively contributes to open-source projects and regularly participates in Capture the Flag competitions and hackathons with the handle backdoorcipher.
Recent Conference Talks
I regularly speak at security conferences on topics related to cloud security, threat detection, and emerging technologies:
For more information about my speaking engagements, visit my speaker profile.
Guest Lecture Invitation
Certifications
I hold several industry-recognized certifications that validate my expertise in cybersecurity and cloud security:
Technical Publications
I regularly publish technical articles on enterprise security architecture and cloud security best practices:
- Building an agentic AI-powered threat intelligence platform - Adobe Security Blog on unifying threat intelligence on a lakehouse, using LLMs to extract IOCs from unstructured sources, and orchestrating automated hunts across enterprise telemetry at scale.
- Designing Effective Data Security Schemas - A comprehensive guide to implementing robust data classification frameworks that balance security requirements with operational efficiency in enterprise environments.
- Practicing Proper DMZ and Firewall Hygiene - An in-depth analysis of network segmentation strategies and firewall configuration best practices to protect critical infrastructure from emerging threats.
Leadership spotlight: Adobe leaders shared my agentic threat intelligence article on LinkedIn.
Academic Publications
My research has been published in academic journals focusing on security vulnerabilities and cloud threat analysis:
Journal of Computer Technology, 2016
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 2019
Timeline
Hackathons & CTF Competitions
In the News
Featured in SVCSI post about CyberWarrior-Adobe CTF at SVCC 2025: Read the article
Featured in SVCSI post about SVCC 2025 Industry Sessions: Read the article
Featured YouTube Videos
Watch my tech talks and tutorials on various security topics:
