Priyanka Neelakrishnan is a Director of Product Management at Veza, where she leads product strategy and execution for Access Security. She brings extensive experience building enterprise security and data platforms at industry leaders such as Palo Alto Networks and Symantec, with a track record of driving innovative, large-scale security solutions.

Priyanka is also the author of Autonomous Data Security: Creating a Proactive Enterprise Protection Plan, a forward-looking book that explores how organizations can move beyond traditional, policy-centric data protection toward adaptive, AI-enabled autonomous security architectures that learn from real environments and proactively safeguard critical data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid landscapes. Her work bridges practical product leadership with pioneering thought leadership in modern data security and access governance.