Vandana Verma Sehgal is a cybersecurity leader, educator, and community builder whose work spans application security, open source, and emerging technology. As Security Relations Lead at Snyk, she helps security practitioners and developers turn complex risks into practical steps they can take to build safer systems. Her current work focuses on AI security, particularly the risks that arise when AI agents connect to tools, data, and real-world workflows.

Vandana has served as Chair of the OWASP Foundation Global Board and continues to contribute to the global application security community. She works on initiatives covering Model Context Protocol (MCP) security, governance, and risk, and helps bring researchers and practitioners together to develop useful guidance. She is also a member of the Black Hat Review Board.

Community education has been a constant throughout her career. Vandana is President of InfosecGirls, founder of InfosecDiversity, and leads InfosecKids. Through these initiatives, she creates opportunities for people at different stages of their journeys to learn, contribute, and find their place in cybersecurity. She also organises OWASP AppSec Days India and has reached more than 90,000 people through training and awareness efforts.

Whether she is speaking at a conference, developing educational content, or working with an open source community, Vandana brings technical depth and a clear, approachable voice to the conversation. She believes security knowledge is most valuable when people can understand it, apply it, and share it with others.