Reed Rising is the Director of Cloud and Security Engineering at Stratus Cyber, where he oversees cloud and security engineering teams, along with continuous monitoring operations for FedRAMP and CMMC compliance frameworks. With extensive experience in the cybersecurity field, Reed specializes in designing and implementing secure multi-cloud architectures that meet FedRAMP High and CMMC compliance standards. His career also includes significant work at Microsoft supporting the development of the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark Program. Reed's expertise spans cloud security engineering, vulnerability management, and developing infrastructure-as-code solutions across AWS and Azure environments.