Daksha Bhasker has almost 25 years of experience in the telecommunications service provider industry. She’s held roles in both business management and technology development and is accountable for complex solution architectures and security systems development. Daksha’s security work spans carrier scale voice, video, data and security solutions. She currently works at Microsoft as a Principal Cybersecurity Architect. Prior to working at Comcast as a Senior Principal on security architecture, she worked at Bell Canada developing their cyberthreat intelligence platform and securing cloud deployments. Daksha holds an MS in computer systems engineering from Irkutsk State Technical University and an MBA in electronic commerce from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She has various publications in international security journals and contributes to standards development. She is an advocate for women in cybersecurity.