As enterprises migrate more of their infrastructure to the cloud, the stakes for security and compliance have never been higher. Traditional models of perimeter defense are no longer sufficient in a world where remote work, hybrid cloud, and AI-driven automation define daily operations. Organizations today are embracing Zero Trust architectures and AI-powered threat detection as the new standard for resilience.
Sulakshana Singh, a Senior IEEE member and an editorial board member at the International Journal of Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Information Technology, has been at the forefront of this shift. With expertise spanning enterprise security, compliance automation, and scalable cloud services, she has consistently demonstrated how technical innovation can align with business impact.
Across industries, the adoption of Zero Trust has accelerated, driven by the realization that legacy, perimeter-based approaches cannot contain modern cyber threats. Gartner estimates that by 2027, more than half of enterprises will have adopted Zero Trust strategies as the backbone of their security programs.
Singh’s work reflects this transformation. At IBM, she contributed to the Security and Compliance Center (SCC)—a product designed to centralize and automate compliance across the IBM Cloud platform. Her contributions included developing new features for microservices, deploying them across disaster recovery regions, and addressing vulnerabilities to align with OWASP standards. By upgrading services from JDK8 to JDK11 and optimizing infrastructure, Singh helped reduce operational cloud usage costs by an estimated $50 million annually, while simultaneously strengthening resilience.
“This wasn’t just a cost-saving exercise,” she explains. “It was about building a platform that could protect enterprises at scale—without slowing them down.”
For decades, enterprise security has been reactive—patching vulnerabilities after they’ve been exploited. But AI is changing that, allowing companies to detect anomalies, predict risks, and automate enforcement before breaches occur. From fraud detection in financial systems to behavior monitoring in hybrid clouds, AI is becoming a cornerstone of enterprise defense. Her scholarly paper, Enhancing Security in Enterprise Networks: Implementing Zero Trust and AI-Driven Threat Detection, captures these priorities at a time when cybersecurity is both an operational challenge and a competitive differentiator.
Singh orients around an emphasis on change. Within the SCC, she focused on library-dependent vulnerabilities that could have exposed enterprise clients to denial-of-service (DoS) threats. Through AI-embedded monitoring and predictive anomaly detection, her teams could reinstate compliance as a shield against threats rather than merely a list of boxes to be checked. “The industry is moving from compliance-first to intelligence-first,” Singh says. “AI enables us to anticipate, not just react.”
Enterprise security conversation frequently revolves around defense; however, resilient organizations now perceive it as a revenue generator. Every second of downtime or direct customer-facing failure drains a little more confidence, retainability, and growth. By incorporating redundancy and disaster recovery at their platforms' core, businesses can safeguard their operations and their market positions.
Singh's work with the SCC illustrates the working of this principle. She directed disaster recovery initiatives that made available operations across multiple regions for nearly 30 percent of IBM's cloud application users, thereby causing fewer interruptions and ensuring a better quality of service. This kind of resiliency instilled great levels of trust in users, contributing to the earning of about $10 million per annum in added revenue.
“In today’s world, reliability isn’t just an IT metric—it’s a business metric,” she notes. “When your systems stay online, your customers stay with you.”
Enterprise security is entering a new age, where Zero Trust, AI-driven threat detection, and compliance automation are not optional—they are table stakes. Singh, whose leadership continues to be recognized through roles such as Globee Awards judge, represents the blend of technical depth and strategic perspective needed to navigate this shift.
Her work on the IBM Security and Compliance Center has already demonstrated that security can be both a safeguard and a growth lever—delivering efficiency gains, cost savings, and revenue impact simultaneously. More broadly, her voice in industry forums and her scholarly research underscores a critical truth: the future of enterprise systems will be defined not only by how well they innovate but by how securely they scale.
“Security isn’t about building walls,” Singh reflects. “It’s about designing systems that adapt, learn, and protect without standing in the way of progress.”