I speak about cybersecurity, AI, and keeping young people safe online. If you’re a journalist on deadline, email me directly.
These all come from work I’ve done myself. Each one can be pitched to a technical audience or to a board.
What it takes to move a semiconductor company off its parent's infrastructure, systems and identity, and stand up its own security program. Drawn from leading Altera's separation from Intel.
Boards don’t fund what they don’t understand. How to explain technical risk in terms an audit committee can act on.
A $25M wire transfer approved on a video call where every other participant was fake. Why training people to spot fakes isn’t enough, and what has to change in how payments get approved.
An AI agent with credentials and tool access is a privileged account. What twenty years of managing identities already teaches us, and how to apply it.
For students and young professionals. What the work really is, how to get in, and what the people hiring are actually looking for.
What parents, schools and policy makers can do about children’s privacy and safety online. I built a company to protect children’s information, and the talk draws on that.
These are talks and sessions, not advisory engagements.
Twenty to forty minutes on one idea, drawn from real work rather than a vendor pitch.
Comfortable either seat. I will disagree with the other panelists where I actually disagree, which is usually the point of the panel.
Forty-five minutes and questions for a board, audit committee or leadership team on security and AI risk.
On the record for journalists, including on deadline. I have been a named source when the story was uncomfortable.
Talks and Q&A with students on security careers and staying safe online. I keep it plain and use real examples.
Articles I’ve written and stories that quote me, newest first.
Use either bio as written. For photos or a speaker sheet, email mkumar@claracon.ai.
Mukul Kumar is CISO at Altera, the semiconductor company. He has spent 25 years in security, including two terms as Altera’s CISO and two years as CISO at Marvell Technology. He writes and speaks on cybersecurity, AI, and keeping the next generation safe online.
Mukul Kumar is CISO at Altera, the semiconductor company, where he is leading security through its separation from Intel. It is his second time in the role. He first ran Altera’s security from 2008 to 2016, including security due diligence for Intel’s $16.7 billion acquisition. He was CISO at Marvell Technology from 2021 to 2023, reporting to the CEO and the board, and earlier at Balbix and Cavirin.
Outside Altera, he runs two ventures of his own: Claracon AI, a cybersecurity and AI advisory firm in San Jose, and AstorX, an AI platform for enterprise tender teams that runs in each customer’s own cloud. He founded Presence Global, a privacy and child online safety company, and sold it. He began his career at Microsoft and then McKinsey.
With 25 years in security, Mukul writes and speaks on cybersecurity, AI and online safety. He also mentors students and young security professionals in India.
Send me the event, the date, the audience and what you’d like people to take away. If it’s not a topic I know well, I’ll say so and try to suggest someone who does.
