Ibrahim Waziri Jr., PhD, is a Global Insider Risk Lead within the Cloud CISO Risk & Compliance (R&C) Insider Threat team at Google, where he leads Cloud Insider Risk Management and drives global cybersecurity regulatory governance and compliance initiatives. His work focuses on aligning technical risk mitigation strategies with evolving global regulations, safeguarding organizational trust, and advancing secure-by-design principles across cloud environments. Prior to Google, he was a Principal Security Product Manager for Cybersecurity Governance and Engineering at Microsoft, where he led the integration of secure engineering practices with U.S national security regulatory requirements. His work emphasizes responsible AI, security engineering innovations, and fostering trust across organizations. He is dedicated to making policy and governance frameworks accessible and actionable for engineering teams.
Waziri collaborates closely with U.S. federal agencies and industry partners, providing security guidance and aligning technology solutions with evolving regulatory landscapes. His experience spans security engineering, governance, secure product development, cloud security architecture, risk management, and compliance. He focuses on bridging the gap between security engineering, governance, and public policy to create resilient, compliant, and trustworthy digital ecosystems.
In addition to his industry work, Waziri has served as an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity, teaching graduate-level courses on governance, risk management, and network security. He has contributed to academia by serving on dissertation committees and conducting research on security governance, network engineering, and cloud infrastructure security. He holds a PhD in Information Security from Purdue University and combines a deep engineering background with a passion for empowering engineering teams to navigate cybersecurity governance effectively.
Waziri’s project focuses on cybersecurity and AI governance authoring standardization and seamless consumption by engineering and compliance teams. Recognizing the challenges engineers face in interpreting complex regulations, His work aims to develop an open-source schema that transforms cybersecurity and AI Executive Orders, regulations, and frameworks into machine-readable formats. By bridging the gap between policy and technical implementation, his fellowship project will help policy makers, compliance operators, and engineering teams develop and maintain secure and compliant products more effectively.