Arun Sankaran

Chief Information Security Officer, LENDINGTREE INC

Search every verified Arun Sankaran interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2021 appearance on theCUBE's AWS Startup Showcase, Arun Sankaran, CISO of LendingTree, discussed the company's adoption of Lacework for cloud security. Sankaran stated that LendingTree needed "robust monitoring capability and detection of threats within containerized environments" and that Lacework was chosen because it offered the "greatest diversity of coverage" across the company's "combination of multiple container technologies and multiple cloud platforms." He described the decision as "a very easy decision" based on capability and scope. Sankaran noted that LendingTree's environment generates "300, 400 million events" per day, and that with Lacework, those events were reduced to "about a hundred alerts a day" and "of those, five are critical" and "all be very actionable." He said the platform "does work really effectively and does free up time and resources on our side that we can apply to other problems." He also emphasized the importance of scaling security capability "2-3X without a corresponding 2-3X in staff and resources," describing Lacework as "the kind of tool that's going to help us get there."