Laks Prabhala

Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Cyber Security Laks Prabhala is a thought leader and Subject Matter Expert in Enterprise and Cybersecurity Solutions. He brings over three decades of Technology and management expertise in Cybersecurity, Application Development and Cloud Computing in industry verticals like Government, Banking, Finance, and Insurance (BFI). Prior to joining Alpha Omega, Laks served as Accenture Federal’s Security Account Lead for CISO & Zero Trust Advisory Services and other cybersecurity leadership roles including a seven-year term as Director and CISO for the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (DOJ OJP). Consulting to the federal government as CISO for one of the largest data collections to date, Laks managed program elements and infrastructure for over 350,000 users across over 250 regional offices, ensuring compliance, advance security operations, dark web hunting, and an array of cybersecurity functions, systems, and protocols to protect US assets and missions. Among his many accomplishments, Laks was honored with the Assistant Attorney General Award in 2010, the DOJ Leadership Excellence and Achievement Program Graduate/Fellow in 2011, and named to the SANS Institute’s “People Who Made a Difference in Security in 2014” for driving DOJ OJP’s Next Generation Security implementation and Secure Cloud initiative.