About
Product and cybersecurity leader. Author.
Himanshu Tiwari is a product and cybersecurity leader and the author of Beyond Posture: Why Security Must Govern Trajectories, Not Snapshots.
He has spent nearly two decades in cybersecurity, working across product management, consulting, and organizational transformation. His career includes leadership roles at Cigital, Synopsys, Diebold Nixdorf, and Amazon, where he has built products and helped enterprises design and build security organizations and platforms.
His approach is grounded in systems thinking: how authority, incentives, workflows, data, and engineering decisions interact over time. He brings this perspective to product leadership and organizational change, focusing on the systems people work within—not just the individual decisions they make.
In Beyond Posture, he explores trajectory governance: shaping which sequences of action are possible, rather than assessing only a system’s current state.
He also writes about product strategy and organizational change, and mentors early- and mid-career professionals in product management and cybersecurity.
The views expressed here are personal and do not represent any current or former employer.