Fast 15: Amanda White

Amanda White’s professor at the University of Alabama, a former chief information security officer for the state of Alabama, piqued her interest in cybersecurity.

“She had a unique way of showcasing how digital threats impacted our daily life, woven through daily newspaper headlines, which intrigued me about the discipline,” White said. 

From Tuscaloosa, Ala., White graduated magna cum laude, with honors college and business honors distinction, from the University of Alabama in 2018 in management information systems. She earned an executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas in 2021.

Joining Walmart in 2018 as a cybersecurity systems engineer in Global Tech, White then worked across cybersecurity, finance technology and associate digital experience. Now she drives cross-functional initiatives within the company’s eDiscovery & Forensics Service Laboratory, a state-of-the-art crime lab dedicated to safeguarding digital evidence for litigation and investigations. 

White enjoys cybersecurity “because the role checks every box on my career wish list: real-world relevance, upward mobility, the chance to make a meaningful impact, and a dynamic landscape full of pathways to pivot and specialize in.”

Selected as a Walmart Global Tech shareholders representative in 2019, she also helped shape the future of Global Tech training as part of a Program Management Council in 2020 and was part of Walmart’s Tiger Team Leadership Development Program. White spoke at the Walton Executive Education — Women in IT Conference in 2021 and was inducted into the University of Alabama’s 18 under 31 Young Alumni class this year.

“Being an impact to those around me and coming after me is very important to me,” she said. So, she serves on the University of Arkansas’ Walton MBA Alumni Advisory Board and the University of Alabama MIS Advisory Board. White is chief marketing officer for a STEAM nonprofit that helps create opportunities for socioeconomically disadvantaged students. In 2024, she served on the executive board of the local graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She also served at the 2025 AIS Student Chapter Leadership conference. She also does communications for the Black & African American Resource Group leadership team, and she’s developed events at Walmart in conjunction with the group, earning her the Helen Walton Community Service Award from Walmart’s Information Security department.

Off work, White enjoys Northwest Arkansas’ art scene, writing, coffee shops and barre classes.