Ibrahim Waziri, Jr. (’14)

I served as the Global Insider Risk Lead within Google Cloud’s CISO organization, where I was responsible for securing critical infrastructure and leading the regulatory incident governance domain. I helped shape Google’s AI insider risk strategy, developing and prioritizing controls to protect proprietary Cloud and AI models and training data from emerging threats, and led risk reviews supporting major regulatory engagements and corporate transactions. Being entrusted with that level of responsibility at one of the world’s most important technology companies is something I do not take lightly. I have since left Google to found Bitsfront, where I am building the next generation of AI-native cyber governance and threat intelligence infrastructure.

During my five years at Microsoft, I rose from Senior Product Manager to Principal Product Manager and owned the cybersecurity compliance strategy for the Department of Defense’s largest cloud programs. I built cybersecurity products that significantly reduced high-risk security exposure across critical engineering teams and accelerated Authority to Operate processes for US national security customers. I was also part of the team advising Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Governance Council on security policy and AI governance.

I am proud of the work I did as a ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow at New America, where I researched and built GovSCH, an open-source governance schema that translates cybersecurity and AI regulations into machine-readable formats that engineers can actually implement. The project was featured in CyberScoop and presented at the RSA Conference, and it represents something I care deeply about: closing the gap between policy intent and technical execution. I was also recognized as a Top 50 Information Security Professional in 2021 by OnConferences.