Welcome to My Corner of the Internet

Neha Gautam at a cybersecurity speaking event

It’s been a lot since we last met, with the Inflationpocalypse, RAMpocalypse, Tokenpocalypse, agentic ransomware, and semi-autonomous warfare going strong. It’s really starting to feel like a cyberpunk novel in full color.

Let’s get into it.

This Year’s Theme Is Agency

In all of its forms—philosophical, social, legal, business, and developmental—agency has at its core the concept of acting independently, making independent choices, and influencing outcomes.

In fast-moving and chaotic times, it’s normal to feel that things are outside your control or too big for you to influence. As hackers, we have adapted over the decades to all kinds of upheaval in both the real and online worlds.

Welcome—I’m glad you’re here.
Portrait of Neha Gautam
Senior Product Manager · Cybersecurity · AI Security

I build security products that enterprises can trust and scale.

I have built 0→1 products across enterprise security, identity, cloud infrastructure, and AI at Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. I translate complex customer needs into clear product strategy, scalable experiences, and measurable outcomes.

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8+ yearsProduct management and cybersecurity
50+Strategic customer engagements in AI security
CISSPCarnegie Mellon cybersecurity graduate
Selected work

From enterprise problems to products with measurable impact.

Representative work described without confidential customer or roadmap details.

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Microsoft Security

Driving secure AI adoption through identity, governance, security, and customer insight

Lead customer-driven product strategy for AI Security and Agent Identity, helping enterprises govern, secure, and scale AI agents with Microsoft Security and Entra.

What I do

  • Translate customer research into product direction for AI security, agent identity, risk, governance, and policy workflows.
  • Drive adoption of Agent ID, Agent 365, Security Copilot, and Global Secure Access.
  • Enable customers through workshops, architecture reviews, hands-on labs, and technical guidance.

Impact

  • Support enterprise customers on AI-transformation journeys.
  • Advance secure adoption of agents and copilots.
  • Bring customer feedback directly into product innovation.

Who I work with

  • Engineering, Design, Research, Identity Engineering, and Product Management.
  • CxE, field specialists, FastTrack, and Customer Success.
  • Security, compliance, commercial, education, financial-services, and healthcare teams.
50+ strategic engagementsAgent identityAI securityCustomer obsessedImpact driven
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Walmart

Cloud fulfillment platforms at enterprise scale

Owned the roadmap for next-generation fulfillment, reverse logistics, warehouse execution, automation, and GenAI workflows supporting more than one million daily orders.

1M+ daily orders$1.5M+ impact$400K annual savings8% SLA gain
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Cisco Security

ML-driven threat detection and Zero Trust

Built anomaly-detection capabilities and shipped security infrastructure features across Cisco ISE, Duo, Secure Firewall, and Umbrella for cloud and hybrid environments.

30% signal precision gain20% risk reductionIAMThreat investigation
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Experience

Product leadership across security, AI, identity, and cloud platforms.

2026 — PresentMicrosoft

Senior Product Manager — Microsoft Security: Identity, Zero Trust & AI Security

  • Own product strategy and early-adoption validation for enterprise AI security experiences, translating research across 50+ strategic customer engagements into roadmap priorities spanning agent inventory, risk, governance, remediation, and policy workflows.
  • Lead product discovery for securing AI agents and non-human identities, defining requirements across identity lifecycle, authentication, authorization, Conditional Access, governance, and enterprise agent ecosystems.
  • Partner across Engineering, Design, Research, Security, and field teams to convert ambiguous customer and technical problems into prioritized requirements, launch-readiness criteria, and long-term product investments.
  • Serve as a product SME for Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access, Internet Access, and Private Access, translating Zero Trust deployment friction across hybrid environments into engineering priorities.
2023 — 2026Walmart

Senior Product Manager — Cloud Fulfillment Platforms & GenAI Strategy

  • Owned product strategy and roadmap for Walmart’s next-generation fulfillment platforms supporting 1M+ daily orders, driving $1.5M+ in business impact.
  • Defined requirements across WMS/WES, reverse logistics, and automation infrastructure, partnering with Engineering, Data Science, and Operations to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
  • Launched AI-powered workflows that cut product and release planning effort by approximately 10 hours per sprint.
  • Led data-platform optimization that retired $400K per year in infrastructure spend while improving SLA performance by 8%.
  • Drove 0→1 product development from discovery and PRDs through prioritization, launch, and post-launch iteration.
2018 — 2022Cisco Systems

Product Manager — Customer Experience, Security & Collaboration

  • Owned product strategy across Cisco ISE, Duo, Secure Firewall, and Umbrella, enabling Zero Trust and IAM policy enforcement across cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Translated enterprise customer needs, telemetry, and deployment patterns into security product requirements and roadmap priorities with Engineering.
  • Built ML-driven anomaly detection capabilities that improved signal precision by 30% and accelerated threat investigation.
  • Shipped Zero Trust and security infrastructure features with Engineering and Threat Intelligence, reducing enterprise security risk by 20%.
Earlier experienceHewlett Packard Enterprise

Enterprise technology foundation

Built early experience in enterprise platforms and technical product environments that informed a career focused on secure, scalable technology.

Speaking

Learning in public, sharing what I know, and building community.

Frequent cybersecurity speaker with talks and panels at Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides, and IEEE symposiums.

Neha Gautam presenting AI for Defenders 101 at DEF CON 34
DEF CON 34AI for Defenders 101 · Blue Team Village
Neha Gautam with fellow Blue Team Village panelists at DEF CON 34
Blue Team VillageDEF CON 34 speaker community
Neha Gautam speaking at the Cracking the Future session at BSides Pittsburgh
Cracking the FutureHow AI is fast-tracking the quantum apocalypse
DEF CON 34Panelist: “You’re Hired… Maybe: Inside Cybersecurity Hiring in 2026” at Blue Team Village.
Security researchTopics spanning AI security, quantum risk, cybersecurity careers, identity, and emerging technology.
CommunityPPP member, MITRE Embedded CTF winner, and Cybersecurity Woman of the Year ’26 nominee.
Upcoming Talks

New sessions and appearances will be announced here.

Interested in inviting me to speak about AI security, agent governance, identity, Zero Trust, cybersecurity careers, or emerging technology?

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Let’s talk secure AI adoption, agent governance, or customer-centered security strategy.

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