Attaullah Baig is a security, trust, and preparedness leader with over 20 years of experience protecting billions of users across global platforms. He has held senior security and architecture roles at WhatsApp (Meta), PayPal, Capital One, and Mastercard, where he built product-led security systems focused on preventing real-world user harm. His work spans cryptography, privacy, payments, abuse prevention, and large-scale platform resilience. Attaullah is an inventor on 15+ patents, an OpenSSL contributor, and a strong advocate for treating security and preparedness as product and human-impact disciplines — not just compliance functions. He regularly speaks on user protection, adversarial systems, preparedness, and how technology companies can earn trust at global scale.

In September 2025 Attaullah filed suit against Meta, publicly challenging the company’s internal practices and raising concerns about user safety, platform governance and accountability at scale.

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