Manisha Gupta

Director of Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Manisha Gupta serves as a Director of Product Management for software-based firewall solutions at Palo Alto networks. In her role, she oversees use-case engagement and product development for customers with ambitious digital agendas and in search of security solutions for sophisticated IT environments. She brings over 20 years of industry experience to her post at Palo Alto Networks, with time spent in various engineering and product leadership roles at prior organizations.

Aqsa Taylor

Product Line Manager, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks

Aqsa Taylor is a Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks where she leads development of Agentless security architecture for all modules in Compute (Workload security) within Prisma Cloud.

Aqsa's passion for cloud security began during the time she co-authored the "Securing Cloud Containers Using Quantum Networking Channels" research paper as part of her Masters thesis at UTSA. Since then, she has been an ardent advocate for workload security best practices and can be seen discussing it in panels, presenting webinars or blogging about the different aspects to comprehensive security with both agentless and agent based architectures.