Company record
Adobe Chief Security Officer (CSO): Aanchal Gupta
The current Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adobe, as tracked by CISO Tribune, is Aanchal Gupta, whose appointment was announced in the week of July 28, 2025 (SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-07-28)). Previously CVP, Office Product Group at Microsoft. Read the record. The record entered the Wire on .
Career profile: Aanchal Gupta on CISO Spotlights ↗
What Adobe tells the SEC
Its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, filed January 15, 2026, carries an Item 1C cybersecurity disclosure that describes a Chief Security Officer reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, with oversight by the Audit Committee. Read the section verbatim or the filing on sec.gov. A filing describes governance as of its date, not today's seat.
Tracked by the Wire since July 28, 2025 · 1 recorded move · every claim links to a sourced record · Updated
Where Adobe appears on the record (3)
Every page on CISO Tribune and its network that carries this company, 3 in all.
- On the Wire
- SEC filing
- Form 10-K cybersecurity disclosure, fiscal 2025 · Item 1C, filed January 15, 2026
- Career profile
About Adobe
CISO Tribune's Leadership Bench files Adobe under Technology and North America. The SEC classifies it under standard industrial classification 7372, Services-prepackaged software, and EDGAR lists its ticker as ADBE. The Wire has one security-leadership move at Adobe on record, announced in the week of July 28, 2025.
What Adobe's 10-K says about security governance
Adobe's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, filed January 15, 2026, describes its cybersecurity governance in Item 1C. The lines below are that filing's own statements, each with the sentence it comes from.
Reporting line: the Chief Security Officer reports to the Chief Financial Officer.
“Our CSO, who reports to the Chief Financial Officer, has primary responsibility for the strategy, engineering and operations of cybersecurity across Adobe in partnership with our executive-level product leaders and our cyber legal professionals, who report to the Chief Legal Officer, and have primary responsibility for the legal aspects of cybersecurity across Adobe.”
Board oversight: the Audit Committee.
“Our Audit Committee of the Board (the "Audit Committee") oversees enterprise risks, including cybersecurity risks, and the adequacy and effectiveness of our information security, technology and policies and our internal controls regarding these areas.”
Experience of the security leadership, as the filing states it:
“Our cybersecurity risk assessment and management processes are implemented and maintained by management, including our CSO and our cyber legal professionals , whom each has extensive cybersecurity experience in their respective areas of responsibility and expertise.”
Plain-English reading and full text of the filing · the filing on sec.gov
Security leadership timeline
What Aanchal Gupta has said in public
CISO Tribune's Voices section carries 2 public posts and talks by Aanchal Gupta. The most recent are listed with their dates.
On AI security and agentic AI in cybersecurity, LinkedIn, November 10, 2026.
On cybersecurity awareness initiatives, LinkedIn, October 29, 2026.
Security chiefs at other Technology organizations
Other organizations CISO Tribune files under Technology with a named security chief on record: those in North America first, in alphabetical order from Adobe onward.
Amazon: CJ Moses, Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Security Engineering.
Astera Labs: Lucas Moody, Chief Information Security Officer.
AWS: Amy Herzog, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Backstory: Victor Chang, Chief Information Security Officer.
Biz2X: Anupam Saha, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Blue Mountain: Paul Adams, Chief Information Security Officer.
Box: Heather Ceylan, Chief Information Security Officer.
C1.ai: William Bengtson, CISO.
Questions CISOs ask about Adobe
- Who is the CISO of Adobe?
- Aanchal Gupta is the current Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adobe on CISO Tribune's record, appointed in the week of July 28, 2025.
- How many security-leadership moves has CISO Tribune tracked at Adobe?
- CISO Tribune has tracked 1 move at Adobe since July 28, 2025.
- When was Aanchal Gupta appointed at Adobe?
- Aanchal Gupta's appointment as Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adobe was announced in the week of July 28, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-07-28).
- Where did Aanchal Gupta work before becoming Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Adobe?
- The record of the appointment gives Aanchal Gupta's previous role as CVP, Office Product Group at Microsoft.
- Who are the security chiefs at other Technology organizations?
- On CISO Tribune's record they include CJ Moses at Amazon, Lucas Moody at Astera Labs, Amy Herzog at AWS and Victor Chang at Backstory.
- Has Aanchal Gupta spoken or written publicly?
- CISO Tribune's Voices section carries 2 public posts and talks by Aanchal Gupta, the most recent dated November 10, 2026.
- Who does the security chief of Adobe report to?
- Adobe's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, filed January 15, 2026, says its Chief Security Officer reports to the Chief Financial Officer.
- Which board body oversees cybersecurity at Adobe?
- Adobe's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K places oversight of cybersecurity risk with the Audit Committee.
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