Shwetha Babu Prasad is a data security and privacy professional, speaker, and author with nearly a decade of experience in information security. Her work focuses on advancing practical, engineering-driven approaches to protect sensitive data and reduce systemic data exposure risks. She has experience implementing data protection controls across enterprise systems to mitigate the risk of sensitive data exposure. She is the author of "Why Websites Fail at Data Protection" and "Privacy and Data Security in the Age of AI." An active member of ISC2 and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), she contributes to industry initiatives aligned with National Institute of Standards and Technology frameworks through the ISSA Resilience Special Interest Group. Her work advances practical, engineering-driven data protection and privacy capabilities, strengthening cyber resilience across enterprise and critical infrastructure environments.