Cybersecurity Alumnus to Discuss Value of the Liberal Arts

Industry-renowned cybersecurity and privacy executive Nishant Bhajaria (’03) will serve as the next Bentele/Mallinckrodt Executive-in-Residence.

For more than 20 years, Bhajaria has worked with various internal (engineering, PR, product, legal) and external stakeholders (regulators, standards bodies, policy-makers) to fuse engagement and growth with efficiency, maturity and governance. He has built cross-functional organizations and products to grow B2B/B2C platforms and capabilities while protecting customer data, maintaining compliance and earning trust.

Bhajaria has spoken extensively on privacy and security and has taught several online courses on LinkedIn about privacy, security, career management and inclusive tech. He has published a book on privacy and security engineering and also co-authored a paper on the tensions between Covid-19, contact tracing and privacy sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bhajaria is a member of the International Standards Organization on privacy/security and was part of the body that authored the ISO 27701 data protection standard. He is currently the director of engineering: assurance and trust, at Meta/Facebook.

Bhajaria will visit campus to present a talk from 4-5:30 p.m. April 11 in Violette Hall 1000 with a reception after. He will discuss how a liberal arts education is a career booster.