Ankita Gupta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Akto, an Agentic AI Security platform focused on securing AI agents across Enterprises. She brings more than 15 years of experience across cybersecurity, engineering, enterprise software, and go-to-market leadership, with prior roles at VMware, LinkedIn, and JPMorgan Chase. She holds a masters degree from Dartmouth College.

Ankita is a leading voice in modern application and AI security, recognized across industry communities including Black Hat USA, OWASP, Defcon, RSA, and GraphQLConf. She serves on the CSA AI Safety Council and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. Her AI Security newsletter reaches 5,000+ subscribers, and her work is followed by a security community of over 25,000 professionals on LinkedIn.

Her focus areas include securing autonomous AI behavior, building Enterprise AI Governance programs, and AI Security strategy for emerging risks around AI agents and MCP ecosystems.