Houston-based Umesh Verma is a leading cybersecurity expert with a tenacious approach to helping businesses protect themselves from cyber threats. With over 30 years of experience, Verma has built BLUE LANCE into a top developer of internal security controls software automation solutions, with their flagship software suite, LT Auditor+, being the most comprehensive end-to-end, internal security controls assessment, remediation, monitoring, alerting, auditing, and compliance management software solution in the world.

Aside from their software development, BLUE LANCE also offers a FREE 25-point Cybersecurity Hygiene Scan that helps hundreds of companies save time and money, run seamless security checks without disrupting operations, and receive color-coded report cards with suggested remediations that both security and system admins can quickly fix. This report card aided by the extensive scan helps CEOs, management, and boards assess their organization's cyber posture quantitatively.

In 2016, Umesh Verma founded the Cyber Houston initiative, aimed toward business leaders to be continuously educated and employ safe and secure day-to-day cyber activities. The initiative also produced the first Houston Cyber Summit in 2016, showcasing real-life frameworks and case studies on securing businesses. The latest event, the third annual Houston Cyber Summit held in 2019, attracted over 400 board members, CEOs, CISOs, CIOs, and Business Leaders.

In addition to his entrepreneurship, Umesh Verma serves on several boards, such as the National Board of Directors at the American Diabetes Association, and worked as a consultant at Shell Oil Company before founding BLUE LANCE.