About Alisha Sharma

Alisha Sharma is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with 20 years of experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) across banking, IT services, and manufacturing. She is CISSP, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, and CPISI-certified with expertise in risk assessments, cloud security, vendor compliance, and regulatory frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-53.

When Nobody Hacks You: Cybersecurity in the Age of Self-Inflicted Failure

Cybersecurity has traditionally been defined by defending against external adversaries. Yet many of the most disruptive modern incidents occur without attackers at all emerging instead from systemic complexity, automation failures, architectural dependencies, and governance blind spots.

The future of cybersecurity is shifting from preventing intrusion to managing complexity-driven failure. In her presentation, Alisha Sharma introduces a new perspective: “cybersecurity without attackers” where she reframes cyber risk as a problem of systemic fragility rather than purely adversarial activity. She will introduce a forward-looking cyber risk paradigm beyond traditional attacker models that demonstrates how innovation introduces new systemic vulnerabilities requiring updated governance approaches, balancing visionary thinking with pragmatic implementation strategies. The session encourages proactive vigilance through resilience-focused design and governance thus equipping attendees with a pragmatic roadmap for reframing cybersecurity to address emerging risk realities.