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Alexandria Leary

Principal Cloud Security Consultant

Alexandria is a Principal Cloud Security Consultant at ScaleSec. With over three years of experience working in cloud security and a background in Financial Services, Alexandria enjoys using best practices to help companies improve their security posture while enabling business units to excel in a fast and safe manner. She’s passionate about automating security and compliance to create seamless integrations between security and all other business facets

Music you enjoy working to: Deep House or Lo-Fi

Favorite Famous Quote:
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”- Ray Bradbury
Alexandria Leary - Senior Cloud Security Consultant

Accreditations & Certifications

AWS Accreditations & Certifications

  • Solutions Architect Associate
  • Certified Security Specialty
  • Solutions Architect Professional

GCP Certifications

  • Professional Cloud Architect
  • Professional Cloud Security Engineer
  • GCP DevOps Engineer Professional
  • GCP Professional Developer
  • GCP Professional Data Engineer

Industry Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+
  • CISSP
  • CCSK

Articles by Alexandria

Alexandria Leary5 min read

Weathering the Storm - A Guide to Cloud Recovery and Resilience

Imagine an on-premises server outage. Replacing hardware can be a logistical nightmare and take days or weeks to get back up ...
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Alexandria Leary7 min read

Compliance vs Security: Are They the Same?

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking alongside my colleague, Haya Ahmed, at the Executive Women’s Forum conference. ...
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Alexandria Leary3 min read

DevSecOps Best Practices to Implement Now

In Hashicorp’s 2022 State of Cloud Strategy Survey, 89% of respondents saw security as a key driver of cloud success. Security ...
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Alexandria Leary3 min read

How to Assess Your Company’s Cloud Readiness

Moving to the cloud can be intimidating. However, with the right plan and preparation, it doesn’t have to be! As businesses ...
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Alexandria Leary5 min read

Demystifying Policy as Code: A Non-Technical Guide to Effective Governance

Demystifying Policy as Code: A Non-Technical Guide to Effective Governance Every company has rules that it follows to be in ...
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Alexandria Leary5 min read

What is DevSecOps?

What is DevSecOps? In today’s technology-driven world, security has become a critical concern for organizations of all sizes. ...
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Alexandria Leary5 min read

6 Common Difficulties of Cloud Migrations and How to Avoid Them

6 Common Difficulties of Cloud Migrations and How to Avoid Them Moving to the cloud can provide many benefits, such as cost ...
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Alexandria Leary6 min read

Creating Your Cloud Migration Security Plan: How & Why?

Creating Your Cloud Migration Security Plan: How & Why? How Cloud Security Enables Your Migration What Constitutes a ...
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Alexandria Leary6 min read

6 Steps to PCI Assessment Success

6 Steps to PCI Assessment Success Financial information, including cardholder data, is a top target for bad actors. If your ...
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Alexandria Leary9 min read

A People-First Approach to Cloud Transformation

A People-First Approach to Cloud Transformation Will they Resist, Accept, or Embrace? When most people hear “cloud ...
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