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Sarah Chen
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Sarah Chen

Chief Security Architect

Sarah Chen is the Chief Security Architect at Plaxonic, with deep expertise in zero-trust frameworks, threat modeling, and compliance architecture for highly regulated industries including finance and healthcare.

BIOGRAPHY

Sarah Chen is the Chief Security Architect at Plaxonic Technologies, responsible for designing and implementing enterprise security architectures across the organization's client portfolio. With over 14 years of cybersecurity experience, Sarah has been at the forefront of zero-trust adoption in regulated industries.

Her career began in penetration testing and red team operations before transitioning to security architecture. She spent six years at a global cybersecurity firm, where she developed zero-trust frameworks adopted by over 20 financial institutions and healthcare organizations worldwide.

Sarah holds a CISSP, CCSP, and OSCP certifications, along with a Master's degree in Information Security from Stanford University. She has contributed to NIST cybersecurity framework guidelines and serves as an advisor to several fintech startups on security architecture.

At Plaxonic, Sarah leads the Security Architecture practice, guiding enterprises through zero-trust transformations, threat modeling exercises, compliance architecture for SOC 2/ISO 27001/HIPAA, and security-by-design implementation across cloud-native environments.

Areas of Expertise

Zero-Trust ArchitectureThreat ModelingCompliance & GovernanceCloud SecurityIdentity & Access ManagementSecurity Engineering

At a Glance

Role

Chief Security Architect

Published

1 perspective

Company

Plaxonic Technologies

PUBLISHED WORK

Perspectives by Sarah.

Zero-Trust Isn't a Product—It's an Architecture Decision

Zero-Trust Isn't a Product—It's an Architecture Decision

Enterprises buying 'zero-trust solutions' are missing the point. True zero-trust requires engineering security into every layer, not bolting it on after.

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