Sailaja Vadlamudi

Sailaja Vadlamudi is a Security & Data Privacy professional, Author, Researcher, Mentor & Global advisory member. She has over 18 years of experience. She is currently working as Senior Director & Chief Expert of Security & Data Privacy & Application Security lead for SAP Labs India and drives security strategy towards building security culture in the region & leads all security initiatives. As part of pro bono, she founded a non-profit WiCSP-Women in cyber security and privacy aiming to educate and sensitize young girls and women in cyberspace. She has lent her expertise on the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB 2019), Non-Personal Data Governance framework (NPD), Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DPEA), The Bureau of Indian Standards Security & Privacy Framework as a panel member and has publications on Robotics process automation & Cloud Forensics. Few of her accolades includes “Women of excellence” by Indian Achievers forum, Top Technologists –“Tech Beacon” award by WEquity, “Cyber Security Ambassador” by – Rocheston, “Top 10 Women Tech Leaders India” by Reva Academy of Corporate Excellence & Terralogic, “Super Cyber Women” by Cyber peace Foundation and “Top 20 Indian Women Influencers in Security 2020” by Security India. She is a member of several  Global Advisories & Committees such as IEEE Women in Engineering Hyderand Section Member, NCDRC (National Cyber Defence Research Centre) – Technical Committee member, NASSCOM member of the special interest group on Cyber security Skilling, Cloud Security alliance Bangalore Chapter Research group member, SiberX Global Advisory, BIS The Bureau of Indian Standards panel for IoT Security & Privacy as well as EC- Council CASE Global Advisory Member.