Vatsal Gupta is a Senior Security Engineer at Apple with 13 years in identity, access management, and cybersecurity. His current focus is authorization architecture for agentic AI systems and policy-based access control. He contributes to the OpenID Foundation AuthZEN Working Group, the CSA IAM Working Group, and OWASP AISVS. He has spoken at Identiverse 2026, ISC2 Security Congress, and multiple IEEE conferences. He serves on the CyCon NATO CCDCOE Academic Review Committee and the ISSA Journal Editorial Advisory Board. IEEE Senior Member.