Sara Dawson

Sara Manning Dawson is a highly accountable and results-driven engineering manager with several years of security leadership experience in cloud security engineering.

She has played a crucial role in evolving Microsoft's SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud services into trustworthy platforms through innovative security engineering at scale.

Sara's expertise includes implementing Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access models for identity isolation, secrets, certificate, and key management, and data protection measures.

She has excelled in vulnerability scanning, patch management, and mitigation at cloud scale and has implemented touchless security detections leveraging AI and automation.

Sara's contributions extend to cloud customer innovations, GDPR-ready security response solutions, and compliance leadership for various accreditations.

She pursued her education at Banting Memorial High School in Alliston, Ontario, and holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Combinatorics and Optimization, Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.

Sara Manning Dawson has held significant positions at Microsoft, including Chief Technology Officer - Enterprise Security, General Manager - Azure Security Engineering, and various lead program manager roles within Office 365 and Exchange Server.