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Punit Gupta
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Punit Gupta

Principal Software Architect

Microsoft

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Professional Summary:

Punit Gupta is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft where he leads the design and engineering of enterprise cybersecurity, Secure Service Edge (SSE), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) systems that protect billions of users across thousands of organizations worldwide. His current focus — AI for Security & Security for AI — sits at the frontier of the industry: augmenting cybersecurity solutions with AI/ML for more efficient threat detection and prevention, while simultaneously developing cutting-edge solutions to secure AI workloads, models, and inference pipelines from increasingly sophisticated attacks. Featured in USA Today, Entrepreneur, and DevX for his cybersecurity expertise, and selected as a judge for the 2026 Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity, Globee® Awards for Artificial Intelligence, Globee® Awards for Excellence, and the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Punit is a recognized industry voice who bridges deep technical innovation with strategic insight.

If you are among the billions of users of Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, Windows, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, or Azure, you are interacting with and staying secure through the solutions and services Punit architects and leads.

With nearly two decades of technical leadership across Microsoft, Meta (Facebook), and Citrix, Punit has established a rare career arc that spans the full evolution of modern cybersecurity — from endpoint auditing and clientless VPN in the early 2010s, through cloud-delivered SASE/SSE, to today's convergence of AI and security. His 19 patents (with 500+ scholarly citations) represent foundational contributions in:
• Security Service Edge (SSE)
• Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
• Endpoint security — malware detection, DLP, end-point auditing
• DDoS and denial-of-service attack prevention at cloud scale
• Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack prevention
• Clientless VPN and software-defined perimeter technologies
• Web content filtering and cloud firewall
• Multi-stage agentless SSE (most recent Microsoft patent filing)

Links:
LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/gupta-punit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gupta-punit/)
Google Scholar (Patents & Citations): [scholar.google.com](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uVOgl1oAAAAJ&hl=en)
Web: [punitgupta1.wordpress.com](https://punitgupta1.wordpress.com)
IEEE: [ieee-collabratec.ieee.org/app/p/PunitGupta](https://ieee-collabratec.ieee.org/app/p/PunitGupta)
Topmate (Mentoring): [topmate.io/punitgupta](https://topmate.io/punitgupta)"