#HearHerStory: Aanchal Gupta

Interview with Director of Security at Facebook

Maya Frai
Maya Frai
Aug 31, 2018 · 14 min read

About Aanchal

Aanchal Gupta is Director of Security at Facebook. She leads a global team responsible for assessing and mitigating security risks across Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus. Prior to joining Facebook, she was Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft for Skype and Skype for Business. Before joining Microsoft, Aanchal led Yahoo’s Global Identity team, contributing to various authentication and authorization open standards such as OpenID and OAuth. Aanchal was named one of Business Insider’s “Most powerful female engineers of 2018”, and she serves on technical advisory boards for security startups, CloudKnox Security Inc. and ThreatWatch Inc. She is also on the advisory board of Udacity’s Cybersecurity Nanodegree. Aanchal is an active speaker at key industry and digital innovation events. She is passionate about building diverse teams and has served on the review board for the Grace Hopper and Black Hat conferences and recently chaired the Applied Security Engineering session topic at the OurSA Conference in 2018, which focused on featuring a diverse group of speakers. Follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.


This is our first of several features of inspiring women at Facebook, as part of the Let’s Hear It x Women@Facebook interview series. Stay updated on new interviews by joining the LHI newsletter here.

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Maya Frai

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Managing Editor, @lhiplatform.

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