Summary
Sabeena Lalwani is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and current Chief Information Security Officer at Magnite, bringing eight years of senior leadership in GRC, incident response, and enterprise security across large ad-tech and cloud environments. She has a track record of building pragmatic risk and compliance programs (SOX, SSAE/SOC) and leading 24/7 operations teams to maintain resilient, auditable systems. Her background spans director and VP roles at Microsoft, Xandr, and AppNexus, where she blended operational ownership with policy, audit, and remediation programs that scaled with rapid growth. A member of NYPD Shield, InfraGard and The CISO Society, she uniquely pairs corporate security stewardship with law-enforcement intelligence collaborations to anticipate sophisticated threats. Trained in systems and architecture at MIT xPRO and expanding into no-code AI and ML, she brings a systems-engineering mindset to modern security challenges and business enablement. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic bridge between technical teams, executives, and external auditors, able to translate complex risk into actionable, business-aligned controls.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
BBA Marketing, BBA Marketing at Hofstra University
Certificate of Attendance Introduction to Global Espionage & Intelligence Part 3: Israeli Intelligence, Certificate of Attendance Introduction to Global Espionage & Intelligence Part 3: Israeli Intelligence at Infragard Los Angeles Members Alliance & Counter Terrorism Watch Inc
Professional Certificate Program (xPRO) Architecture and Systems Engineering, Professional Certificate Program (xPRO) Architecture and Systems Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions, No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions at MIT Professional Education