Lakshmi Balasubramaniam

With over 20 years of cybersecurity experience, Lakshmi Balasubramaniam is a trailblazer known for transforming security programs at Fortune 500 companies. As a Cyber Risk Leader, she established vendor security management program at IBM to reduce third-party security risks to IBM products/ offerings. Lakshmi’s expertise spans Governance, Risk & Compliance, Cloud Security & Security Operations. She holds certifications such as AWS Certified "Security Specialty" and CISSP. Lakshmi represented IBM in the Charter of Trust, a non-profit consortium, contributing to the development of baseline security controls for third-party software products to ensure a secure software supply chain.