Laks Prabhala named Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President for Cybersecurity at Alpha Omega Integration

Alpha Omega Integration named Laks Prabhala as its first Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President for Cybersecurity. Prabhala joins from Accenture Federal, where he was security account lead for CISO and zero trust advisory services. He previously spent seven years as CISO for the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs.

According to the release, Prabhala said his role as CISO will be to bulletproof Alpha Omega's federal customers and departments from threats proactively. He also said the role will ensure strategic growth and agility and use AI/ML and emerging technologies to safeguard the nation and global security.

The release says Prabhala has worked in cybersecurity for over 25 years across private industry and the federal government. The release describes his scope as covering IT infrastructure, computer engineering, compliance, oversight, executive management and all aspects of cybersecurity. The release says that while consulting to the federal government as a CISO, Prabhala managed infrastructure and program elements for more than 350,000 users in over 250 regional offices. According to the release, Prabhala's consulting to the federal government as CISO involved ensuring compliance, dark web hunting and advancing security operations to protect US missions and assets.

The release says he received the Assistant Attorney General Award in 2010 and in 2011 was a Graduate/Fellow of the DOJ Leadership Excellence and Achievement Program. According to the release, the SANS Institute named him in 2014 to its People Who Made a Difference in Security list for driving the Secure Cloud initiative at DOJ OJP. He holds a Drexel University Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, according to the release. The release also says he was a Senior Executive Fellow at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. According to the release, he chaired the Loudoun County Public Schools Advisory Committee for Gifted Education and sat on the advisory board of Tuskegee University's College of Engineering at the time of the announcement. He was also a member of Colorado Technical University's College of Security Studies Advisory Council and sat on Liberty University's Cyber Board of Advisors at the time of the announcement, the release said.

The release says Alpha Omega has capabilities in cybersecurity, intelligent automation, DevSecOps and cloud engineering, and design and product management. According to the release, Alpha Omega holds Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity Level-5 for Development and Services and ISO/IEC registration for 9001:2015, 27001:2013 and 20000-1:2018.