Poonam is currently a Senior Security Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services. Her responsibilities focuses on vulnerability remediation across AWS. Awarded 2021 IBM Women Leaders in AI She has near 20 years of Cybersecurity experience at Accenture, Mastercard, JP Morgan Chase, and Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and U.S. Bank.Accomplishments- In the first 90 days at DTCC, Poonam had completed a current state assessment (people, process, technology) of the IT Security program, proposed a business case, and began design of the Agile transformation.- In 11 months, 10 engineering and governance squads were actively sprinting across security capabilities with the hiring of 58 security professionals & leaders to build out the Cybersecurity Services tribe- Restructured and built a team of Information Security Managers (ISM) to best support Merchant Services line of business across new and legacy platforms at JPMC- Influenced the remediation of aged risk acceptances to closure improving the risk posture at JPMC- Setup strong partnerships with subsidiary, WePay, to influence actionable results for security project implementation on time resulting in risk reduction- Built the first in-house Security Operations Center (SOC) at Mastercard- Built the Vulnerability Management program at Mastercard (infrastructure scanning, penetration testing, bug bounty), including influencing security policy, for timely remediation across Mastercard globally- Implementing a state of the art Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) system geared towards automation of security vulnerability identification & remediation. - Launched the first public Bug Bounty Program at Mastercard- Built & executed 3 year strategy for Identity Access Management (including internal authentication/authorization, physical access, risk governance, provisioning, and privileged access management) at Mastercard - Built & led global teams of 100 at Mastercard (based in St. Louis, Dublin, and Pune). - Strong advocate for STEM and an avid participant of Mastercard's patent program, Girls 4 Tech- Featured on NPR Radio, Blackhat, and speaking engagements at St. Louis University & University of Missouri - St. Louis- Led LeanIn Circle at Mastercard- Strong mentor to women technologists - Served on the Board for the University of Missouri - St. Louis Information Systems department