Alex Waitkus

Alex Waitkus is the Principal OT Cybersecurity Architect for the Southern Company Power Delivery Cybersecurity team.

His focus is on delivering design solutions to help enable strategic business initiatives through cybersecurity programs and collaborative defense initiatives to address threats to industrial systems and critical infrastructure and improve the risk posture of the business by analyzing existing organizational, infrastructure, and application security challenges and usage; identifies opportunities for improvement; and develops practical roadmaps for improving security posture. Alex also focuses on the study of systemic risk to the energy sector through multiple partnerships and engagements with peer utilities, national labs, and the Department of Energy, and holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Information Systems Security Architecture Professional certifications as well as other Industry standard security certifications. A proven project and team leader, Mr. Waitkus’ functional areas of expertise include systems and communication protection, OT detection and monitoring, OT threat analysis, vulnerability analysis, information assurance (IA), business systems analysis, computer network exploitation, and project management and support.