Aqsa Taylor is a cybersecurity leader, author, and tech evangelist who makes complex security ideas easy to understand and hard to ignore. She currently serves as Chief Security Evangelist at Exaforce, where she shapes market narrative and helps security leaders and practitioners build conviction in modern approaches to detection, investigation, and response. Her perspective is shaped by her former experience as Chief Research Officer and Analyst at SACR (Software Analyst), a next-generation cybersecurity analyst firm.

In that role, she authored research reports, market rankings, and industry analysis read by 16,000+ readers on average, and regularly advised CISOs through briefings and speaking engagements grounded in that research. Her work mapped the emerging AI SOC landscape for MDR, explained the convergence of cloud security and the SOC, and analyzed the rise of security data pipeline platforms and data lakes that are reshaping SIEM economics.

Aqsa is also the author of Applied Security Data Strategy: A Leader’s Guide (2025) and Process Mining: The Security Angle (2023), writing for security leaders who want clear guidance without jargon. Her background includes early work at Twistlock, the cloud-native application security platform acquired by Palo Alto Networks, and product leadership roles supporting Prisma Cloud workload security, where she advised organizations representing 44%+ of the Fortune 100. In 2026, Aqsa was nominated for the Cybersecurity Woman of the World award, recognizing her leadership and impact across the security and technology evangelism.