Natalia Oropeza

Natalia Oropeza is the Global Chief Cybersecurity Officer of Siemens, appointed in January 2018.

Career path

Before joining Siemens, Oropeza held senior management positions including Vice President IT Mexico at T-Systems and Chief Information Security Officer at Volkswagen. In January 2018, Siemens established a new Cybersecurity unit headed by Oropeza as Chief Cybersecurity Officer, a role in which she reports directly to the Managing Board of Siemens AG. By 2020 she also held the title of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Siemens. She serves as Chairwoman of the Charter of Trust, contributing to global initiatives promoting cybersecurity and digital trust. In December 2025 she was described as Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens in an interview on industrial cyber risk.

Remit and public talks

Oropeza's responsibilities span safeguarding Siemens' infrastructure, products, solutions and services, as well as facilitating cybersecurity services for Siemens customers. At the NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference in Baltimore in 2018, she was presented in a keynote titled Driving security in an unsecure world. "Cybersecurity is more than a challenge. It's a huge opportunity," Oropeza said.

Published work

Oropeza has co-authored several Siemens blog articles with Valeriya Masyuta, including Siemens sets standards: how data transforms cybersecurity, From 1.6 Days to 60 Sec: Why Everything We Knew About Cybersecurity Just Changed, Skyscrapers on Sand: Why Industrial AI Fails Without Cybersecurity, Siemens Cybersecurity: Mastering AI for Industrial Resilience, What Grapevines Know What Leaders Don't and A Day in Córdoba: Learning from Stone and Spirit. In a December 2025 interview with Help Net Security, she discussed how Siemens is adapting its threat models to account for AI-driven attacks, noting that in-house capability for OT response and recovery is becoming a priority. She said static defenses are no longer enough and described shifting to adaptive strategies that evolve alongside threats, with AI threat models embedded in Siemens' OT environments to address risks such as AI-driven adaptive malware and AI-enhanced social engineering.