Sunil Gentyala is a Lead Cybersecurity and AI Security Consultant at HCLTech, where he leads an 11-person security team serving Fortune 500 clients including Uber, Disney, and Royal Caribbean. He serves as HCLTech's designated expert representative to the Cloud Security Alliance and is Security Architect and Framework Designer for HCLTech's AIDefendX initiative.

His research spans adversarial machine learning, Model Context Protocol (MCP) vulnerability analysis, post-quantum cryptography, and agentic AI governance. He is an IEEE Senior Member (No. 101760715), active ISACA Professional Member, and holds the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Bronze (Cybersecurity Professional of the Year).

He is the creator of two open-source security frameworks — ContextGuard (zero-trust middleware for MCP security) and the GSH Framework (agentic AI threat hunting mapped to MITRE ATLAS and NIST CSF 2.0) — and has published across Dark Reading, SC World, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity Magazine, and the Cloud Security Alliance.

• Lead Cybersecurity and AI Security Consultant at HCLTech, managing Fortune 500 client security programs
• IEEE Senior Member (No. 101760715) with ORCID 0009-0005-2642-3479
• 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Bronze — Cybersecurity Professional of the Year
• Shortlisted, 2026 Cyber Security Influencer of the Year (Cyber Security Awards)
• National Cyber Awards Alan Turing Cyber Leadership Award nominee
• HCLTech designated expert representative to the Cloud Security Alliance
• Published researcher in post-quantum cryptography, MCP security, and agentic AI governance
• Active peer reviewer for IEEE, CSA, and international conferences
• Peer reviewer, Cyber Defense Review — peer-reviewed journal of the U.S. Army Cyber Institute at West Point (2026)

ContextGuard: Zero-trust middleware for Model Context Protocol (MCP) security

GSH Framework: Gentyala-Sovereign Hunt — Agentic AI threat hunting mapped to MITRE ATLAS and NIST CSF 2.0

A Post-Quantum Migration Taxonomy for Model Context Protocol — Multi-venue paper (IEEE TIFS, ACM QSec, Elsevier FGCS) applying RFC 9794 PQ/T hybrid constructs to agentic AI infrastructure

LLM Jailbreak Survey — Published to Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19241166) and SSRN

MCP Security Analysis — SC World, published article on MCP security attack vectors and zero-trust mitigations

Governing Agentic AI via MCP and COBIT 2019/NIST CSF 2.0 — ISACA Journal, co-authored with Praveen Kumar Mannam (Salesforce)

Zero-Trust Data Pipelines — JRTCSE, co-authored with Sunil Kumar Mudusu (Church Mutual Insurance)

Identity 3.0 and Zero-Trust for Critical Infrastructure — IEEE SmartNets 2026 submission introducing the IMM-CI maturity model

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• IEEE Senior Member — No. 101760715
• ISACA Professional Member — ID: 2297870 (active through December 2026)
• Cloud Security Alliance Expert Representative (HCLTech)
• ORCID: 0009-0005-2642-3479
• BCS Fellow (Experiential route, completed)
• Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19241166
• #FoundryExpert across IDG/Foundry publications (CSO Online, CIO.com, Computerworld)