{"id":245780,"date":"2026-05-13T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/2026-cso-award-winners-showcase-business-enabling-cyber-innovation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:45:11","slug":"2026-cso-award-winners-showcase-business-enabling-cyber-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/2026-cso-award-winners-showcase-business-enabling-cyber-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 CSO Award winners showcase business-enabling cyber innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 CSO Award winners showcase business-enabling cyber innovation<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-13 05:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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K&N Engineering shifts left for greater cloud security<\/h2>\n

Organization:<\/strong> K&N Engineering
Project:<\/strong> Code to Cloud Security Transformation
Security leader:<\/strong> Iqbal Rana, CIO<\/p>\n

Manufacturing company K&N Engineering manages its own direct-to-consumer ecommerce environment in AWS. CIO Iqbal Rana, who oversees security, has always followed security best practices in the cloud, relying on cloud-native security capabilities and controls implemented by his security team to ensure \u201cwe had all the rights things in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

But an assessment by his cyber insurance company a couple of years ago alerted him to a security vulnerability in the software deployment tool used by his IT workers.<\/p>\n

That alert prompted Rana to immediately address the vulnerability \u2014 and to more aggressively look at the risks within his vendor environment and in IT processes, he says.<\/p>\n

That led to K&N\u2019s Code to Cloud Security Transformation, which tackles vulnerabilities not only in vendor tools but also in the code his team was deploying.<\/p>\n

The initiative involved implementing a code-to-cloud security framework and Wiz technology, which integrated security into every stage of the development lifecycle across K&N\u2019s AWS and Azure environments.<\/p>\n

Now his team can proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities before deployment, ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient cloud operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we not only fix the deployment risk but also code risk as well,\u201d he says, explaining that the technology prevents code with known vulnerabilities from being inadvertently deployed. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t end there. When the code is deployed [and] you\u2019re live in production, at that point it keeps checking on an ongoing basis. So we have a dashboard that will tell us not only any infrastructure vulnerability but also any problem with the code.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rana says the technology enabled a transformative shift-left strategy, as his team can now uncover and remediate hundreds of hidden…<\/p>\n

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