Roshni Gupta

COO

CyberNxt Solutions LLP

Computer and Network Security

India

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Leaders at a Glance

At the forefront of securing CyberNxt Solutions LLP as COO, Roshni Gupta infuses the computer and network security sector in India with transformative leadership. Weaving tactical operational execution with cutting-edge cybersecurity paradigms, she engineers impenetrable architectures that redefine digital safety and client confidence, cementing lasting resilience and elite performance across the enterprise.

Name: Roshni Gupta
Designation: COO
Company: CyberNxt Solutions LLP
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Country: India

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Cybersecurity has never been a field where standing still is an option, and Roshni Gupta’s career reflects that reality in a more personal way. Each stage of her journey asked her to become something slightly different: a network security professional, a risk leader, an enterprise advisor, an entrepreneur and now a COO building a growing cybersecurity business. Yet the biggest shift was not technical. It was learning that leadership is less about having the fastest answer and more about listening long enough for the right one to emerge. That evolution has shaped how she builds teams, mentors younger professionals and approaches the challenges of leading in an industry where women remain underrepresented. In this conversation with Portfolio Magazine, Roshni reflects on reinvention, mentorship and the experiences that taught her to lead without losing the curiosity that started her journey.

Working across banking, telecom, and cybersecurity, how has your journey shaped you?

It’s been a journey of continuous reinvention. I started in 2010 at Reliance Communications in network security, when cybersecurity as a term didn’t even really exist, managing security for clients such as Times Group, NSE and Bank of Baroda. Working at Reliance’s Data Centre was when I first understood that my job wasn’t simply about managing servers. I was responsible for keeping core banking applications and infrastructure running during business-critical hours, which reframed security for me as a business continuity function rather than an IT checkbox.

Wipro broadened that view while I managed HDFC Bank’s security infrastructure, with more than 80 devices across India supporting netbanking, RTGS and NEFT. Aditya Birla introduced me to risk management, while Yes Bank allowed me to see the other side as an enterprise consuming security services. By then, I understood both sides of the security equation, what a customer actually needs versus what they ask for. That perspective gave me the confidence to become an entrepreneur in 2019, and eventually build CyberNxt with a friend.

How has your definition of good leadership evolved?

Early in my career, I associated leadership with technical authority. If you knew the most, solved problems fastest and could provide the answer, you were probably seen as the leader. Working under some genuinely strong leaders and mentors across Reliance, Wipro, Aditya Birla and Yes Bank gradually changed that understanding because I started absorbing qualities from them beyond their technical guidance, particularly the discipline of listening before advising.

I started mentoring peers and juniors fairly early, and that experience reinforced something I still believe today: you have to understand a person’s actual problem before jumping to a solution. A fix can look right on paper and still not work for someone’s reality. Sitting on both sides of the table also taught me empathy in a very practical sense. As a vendor, I understood what it takes to deliver a valuable service; as an enterprise client, I understood what customers worry about when they bring in a partner. Good leadership, to me now, is less about having all the answers and more about creating the conditions through listening, mentorship and cross-functional empathy where the right answers can surface.

As cyber threats evolve, what capability are you investing in most today?

Right now, I’m investing heavily in understanding how AI is reshaping both sides of the security equation. Attackers are using it to scale and sophisticate threats, and we as defenders need to build AI-augmented capabilities into our products and SOC operations rather than treating AI as a bolt-on.

Another side of that learning has become increasingly important as CyberNxt has expanded into the Middle East and the US. I’ve had to move beyond an India-centric view of compliance and really understand how data protection, risk and security regulations differ from one market to another. A security solution that is compliant and trusted in one region can still fall short somewhere else. As a leader scaling a cybersecurity company internationally, that’s a gap I can’t afford, so understanding the regulatory landscape has become as important to me as understanding the technology itself.

What opportunity in cybersecurity excites you most right now?

What excites me most is helping organisations actually measure the return on their security investments. So much of the industry has historically been about convincing companies to spend more on security, but very few help them understand whether what they have already invested in is working. That’s why we built two products at CyberNxt, which are Cyber Visible and Cyber Insights, to help organisations understand their security-stack ROI and see whether those investments are translating into actual risk reduction. Cyber Visible helps organisations understand their current Security posture, and Cyber Insights is a Unified Control framework that helps manage the organisation’s GRC domain.

I find that far more exciting than simply selling another point solution because it changes the conversation from fear-driven spending to informed, outcome-driven security strategy. My experience building an in-house SOC for one of our clients reinforced that belief. I worked on the vision, roadmap and execution, and saw firsthand that organisations want more ownership and visibility rather than treating security operations as a black box managed entirely by a third party. Preparing our own team therefore means cross-training them to understand not just the technical tooling, but also the business and compliance context our clients operate in.

What impact do you hope to make through mentorship and community building?

The cybersecurity ecosystem in India is a close-knit community, and I’ve been fortunate to learn from some incredible leaders and mentors throughout my career. People share what’s working, mentor each other and help each other grow, and I’ve tried to pay that forward by mentoring my own peers and juniors along the way. At some point, you naturally start thinking about what you can contribute because someone else once took the time to help you grow.

I want to continue doing that as CyberNxt expands into new markets, whether through mentoring the next generation of security professionals or through the work we do as a company. Success, to me, wouldn’t be measured simply by how large CyberNxt becomes. I’d rather look at whether the people I’ve mentored go on to become strong leaders themselves and whether the community becomes a little stronger, a little more collaborative and a little more prepared for what’s coming because I was part of it. That would mean far more to me than any single business milestone.