Lovert Akwen

Lovert Akwen is a seasoned Cloud Security Engineer currently employed at Verizon since December 2023. Prior experience includes a role as an AWS Cloud Security Engineer at Dell Technologies from April 2021 to November 2023, where significant improvements in security protocols for over 50 cloud applications were achieved, resulting in a 25% decrease in incidents. At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas, from March 2019 to March 2021, Lovert led a successful migration of 20 applications to AWS, enhancing scalability and cutting infrastructure costs by 30%, while also implementing security controls that reduced incidents by 40%. Earlier experience as a SOC Analyst at Deloitte from January 2018 to March 2019 involved monitoring security alerts and significantly improving incident response times. Lovert holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Buea, obtained in August 2014.