Balaji Ganesan is part of the enterprise security team at Hortonworks, where he is leading and executing the vision to bring comprehensive enterprise security into Apache Hadoop. He came to Hortonworks through its acquisition of his security startup, XA Secure. As the Senior Director of Enterprise Security and Strategy, he is responsible to bring together top big data and security talent, build enterprise-grade products, and redefine how data security and governance are viewed within and across the Hadoop ecosystem