Priya Gnanasekaran

Priya Gnanasekaran

Principal Security Consultant
Thales

Priya Gnanasekaran is a Principal Security Consultant at Thales Group and a TEDx speaker specialising in Security Operations, detection engineering, and identity security. She has led enterprise-scale security transformations, helping organisations rethink how they design and operate security in complex environments.

Priya is known for her perspective at the intersection of cyber security, human behaviour, and emerging technologies such as AI. She frequently speaks on global stages about emerging technologies, including Web3, AI, and decentralized identity and focuses on building more resilient, human-aware security systems.“The future of Cyber Security isn’t just about smarter systems. It’s about designing them for the humans who use them.”

We built security for perfect humans. Attackers didn’t.

Priya Gnanasekaran
2026-10-16 11:45 am
2026-10-16 12:25 pm
Room 209

Automating tier-one triage didn't remove human error from security operations, it just relocated it upstream into detection logic nobody revisits.

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