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Yu Sasaki

Yu Sasaki

Enterprise Security Specialist

About Me

I am an Enterprise Security specialist with a career rooted in system engineering. Starting in infrastructure and global project management at MUFG Bank, I transitioned into cybersecurity and have since built expertise across endpoint security, identity, and governance automation. I now lead security engineering at Mercari, where I focus on building "invisible security" — robust compliance that moves at the speed of engineering.

Publications & Talks

Mercari Engineering Blog

Speaking

Media Coverage

Experience

  • Security Leadership — Leading cross-functional security strategy, budgeting, and org design; translating technical risk into business impact.
  • Zero Trust & Identity — Designing Zero Trust with identity and browser security platforms, feeding device trust signals into context-aware access policies.
  • Endpoint Security & Governance Automation — Managing large endpoint fleets with Security as Code (IaC, GitOps) aligned to mSCP and NIST.
  • Security Engineering — Building security orchestration and tooling in Python and Go, integrated into engineering pipelines.
  • Incident Response & Threat Intelligence — Leading IR, vulnerability management, and SIEM integration; developed cyber exercises for the financial sector ISAC.
  • Global Project Management — Managed multi-region core-banking system overhauls under strict regulatory requirements (MUFG Bank).