Hari Pulapaka
Project Perception, our Agentic SOC, Microsoft
Hari Pulapaka is listed as Project Perception, our Agentic SOC, Microsoft. Hari is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Hari Pulapaka leads engineering and product for Project Perception at Microsoft, the agentic security system for Microsoft Defender. Perception is an agentic SOC. Specialized red, blue, and green agents continuously probe for weaknesses, investigate threats, and remediate them. His background is in systems. He spent his career in operating systems, working on the Windows kernel, Azure Host OS, hypervisor and virtualization architecture, and Windows on ARM from concept through silicon. At Microsoft he previously led the product organization across Windows and Azure Host OS. He shipped Windows on ARM, its x86 emulation layer, Windows Server 2025 and CloudHost OS across the Azure fleet, built the Confidential Computing product team from zero, and created Windows Sandbox, ELAM, and Protected Process Light. Before returning to Microsoft he led endpoint detection product management at CrowdStrike across Windows and macOS. He holds 50 patents across OS, virtualization, and security. He cares
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Project Perception Roadmap: New Capabilities, Use Cases & What's Next Speaker · 17 November 2026
Spoke alongside
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- Will Pocknell Director of Cybersecurity · Insight 1 shared session
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