Ms. Dhivya Balasubramanian
Cybersecurity Manager, Southwest Airlines
Dhivya Balasubramanian is a cybersecurity leader with nearly 20 years of experience across enterprise technology, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and people leadership. She leads IAM enablement initiatives in a large, highly regulated enterprise, focusing on scaling identity services across complex application ecosystems while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational efficiency. Her work centers on operationalizing security frameworks and building scalable delivery models for shared cybersecurity services across cloud and hybrid environments.
Dhivya is also an active speaker and mentor in the identity and cybersecurity community, with a strong focus on developing future talent and expanding how identity is taught, understood, and operationalized. Her work emphasizes breadth as well as depth, building identity practitioners who can reason across architecture, risk, delivery, and human systems.