Dragan Stevanovic, CISSP is a seasoned security architect with nearly 20 years of experience across banking, telecom, and insurance IT sectors. His hands-on background spans multiple cybersecurity domains, having held roles such as Security Engineer, Analyst, Penetration Tester, Consultant, and Architect, combining technical depth with a system-level perspective. He is passionate about security by design and the shift-left approach — proactively identifying and mitigating threats early in the product development lifecycle. His recent focus lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity — not only analyzing the risks introduced by AI systems but also leveraging AI to enhance defense capabilities. He advocates AI-assisted threat modeling to reduce cost, accelerate time-to-market, and enforce risk-driven, standardized security controls — empowering product teams and security champions even when their expertise is limited. This enables product teams to embed resilience, compliance, and security quality into the core of digital solutions — aligning technical safeguards with business outcomes