Career profile
Aanchal Gupta
Chief Security Officer (CSO), Adobe
- Current role, per sources checked 29 July 2025
- July 2025
Aanchal Gupta is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adobe, appointed in July 2025.
Career path
Gupta began in security leadership at Yahoo, where she led the company's Global Identity team and contributed to authentication standards including OpenID and OAuth, after earlier holding a Director of Engineering role there.
She then served as Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft for Skype and Skype for Business.
In 2016 she joined Facebook, serving as CISO for Novi (Calibra), the unit responsible for the company's cryptocurrency initiative.
She rejoined Microsoft as Vice President, Azure Security, where she also led the Microsoft Security Response Center, the team handling security response for Microsoft's customer base.
At Microsoft she later became Corporate Vice President, Cloud and M365 Security, and subsequently CVP and Deputy CISO.
In December 2023 she moved into the role of CVP, Office Product Group, a position she held until joining Adobe.
In total, Gupta held cybersecurity leadership roles at Microsoft for more than five years before her move to Adobe.
She holds a master's degree in software engineering from San José State University and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from India's National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Remit at Adobe
Adobe said Gupta "has been tasked with leading the vision and strategy for the company's global cybersecurity program, while supporting its broader AI governance efforts." Adobe's own author page describes her as leading global security efforts at the company and driving innovation in responsible AI practices. In an Adobe Digital Leaders webinar titled Trust by Design: Securing AI at Enterprise Scale, Gupta discussed how organizations can embed governance guardrails into existing workflows to enable secure, scalable AI, and how to validate behavior and enforce safe boundaries around agentic and autonomous systems.
Boards and industry engagement
Gupta has served on the boards of Silvergate Capital Corp and Internet Security Research Group, and on Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Business Insider included her among its 2018 recognition of leading female engineers. She has taken part in industry events including Grace Hopper, Enigma, and Black Hat. In October 2021 she appeared on an ISC2 panel titled Women in Cybersecurity, examining the underrepresentation of women in the field and ways to address it.
