Training

Praveen Kumar

Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer at ZEE Innovation & Technology Centre

Cdr Praveen Kumar is a veteran with over 2 decades of rich experience in leadership roles in Information Technology and Cyber Security. Praveen’s passion and talent lie in building secure systems. Over the years, he has steered various Information Technology & InfoSec projects from conception to delivery and ensured balance between security and convenience to achieve customer satisfaction.

Currently, he is the Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer at ZEE Innovation & Technology Centre - a part of ZEE 4.0 digital transformation. In his current role, he is responsible for enterprise-wide information security, privacy, compliance, and business continuity management.

Praveen has demonstrated expertise in building and leading large teams, handling technology risk, security, privacy and governance programs. He is known for leveraging his technical skills, operational background, and strong business acumen to align risk management with executive vision. Praveen is an evangelist for security across corporate functions, with strong abilities to garner support at executive and board level.

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Deepak Prasad

Customer Engineer, Security Specialist at Google Cloud

Prasad is a customer engineer, security specialist at Google Cloud. He has over 20 years of multicultural and diversified experience in cloud computing, information security, IAM, practice development, pre-sales, solution architecting and cloud security solutions.

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Craig Aukett

Head of CyberArk Consulting Services

Craig has had roles in many areas of IT where security has always played a key part. Originally starting out as a web developer, Craig has since worked in application development and support, e-commerce, systems engineering and in recent years held roles in the consultancy space working with many advisory firms where audits, regulation and compliance have been at the forefront of the conversation. During his time with CyberArk, Craig has worked with many global and enterprise customers in heavily regulated sectors such as finance and insurance and will share his experiences and lessons learned during the webinar.

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Josh Kirkwood

Head of Strategic Alliances, Cyberark

Josh Kirkwood is a 15-year veteran of the IT Operations space having worked in infrastructure architecture and operations roles until he found the 'interesting' side of the industry and joined security. Josh currently leads the team of solutions engineers aligned to CyberArk's Advisory & GSI Partners, helping them build identity security strategies that help deliver positive outcomes to their customers.

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Vishal Patel

Security Solutions Architect, CyberArk

Vishal has been a security professional for over 15 years with a primary focus on Identity Access Management and Privileged Access Security for a Fortune 500 financial company. He shares his experiences defending from internal and external threat actors using industry leading solutions and home-grown ingenuity. His exposure across multiple enterprise verticals has given him a unique perspective when applying security within existing business processes. During this web panel, Vishal will share his practical experience helping U.S. based customers pass IT security audits and improve their compliance posture.

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Raj Dasgupta

Director of Fraud Strategy - North America, BioCatch

Raj is Director of Fraud Strategy, North America at BioCatch with over 15 years of Financial Services industry experience in the U.S. having worked for HSBC, Yodlee, Intuit, ID Analytics and TransUnion prior to joining BioCatch. Throughout his career, he has been at the cusp of business and technology advising his customers on how technology solutions can be operationalized to solve real-life business problems. He is very passionate about the world of identity and fraud and has deep SME in Fraud Risk, Device risk, Credit Risk, Machine Learning based predictive modeling and Customer Authentication in an omni-channel environment. At BioCatch, he frequently talks to customers, listening to their fraud problems and how the right use of technology can enable them to offer a great user experience while reducing manual review effort and keeping fraudsters at bay.

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Denny Prvu

Director of Identity & Access Management: Enterprise Security, RBC

Denny Prvu has been fortunate enough to work around the world in public and private sector as a strategist, architect, and communicator on identity, security, and privacy topics for over 20 years. Experience by working on standards and active contributions in areas including authentication, compliance, and numerous NIST frameworks has been key to successfully solving consumer and workforce identity challenges. Enjoying the areas of identity we all see that include authentication, access and life cycle management to the ones we don't see that include PAM, IOT, and the governance surrounding them has allowed Denny to develop a well-rounded collection of skills as speaker, and author. Always willing to grab tea and talk about anything identity.

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Saikrishna Chavali

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, where he is helping Secure Service Edge (SSE) products cross the chasm to mainstream enterprise buyers. Sai has expertise in growing and building cloud security products to protect data, applications and users across CASB, Insider Threat Management and Application Security. Prior to his time at Proofpoint, Sai held product management positions at Veracode, where his products helped to reduce software vulnerabilities in web applications used by Fortune 100 enterprise companies and consumers all over the world. 

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Brian Gleeson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint

Brian Gleeson is charged with bringing to market Proofpoint’s People-centric Security Service Edge solutions. He comes to Proofpoint from Check Point, where he focused on a wide portfolio of product offerings, including network, mobile, endpoint, IoT, and cloud security. Since 2013, he published more than 50 though-leadership papers and blogs on topics ranging from cyber threat research, security best practices, and threat prevention.

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Christopher Schnieper

Director of Market Planning, Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Chris Schnieper is a Director of Market Planning in the Fraud & Identity area at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. He focuses on working across a variety of different industries on strategic fraud challenges, authentication needs, cybersecurity, and technology innovation. Chris also works with clients on how to protect their ecosystem with decentralized environments including: blockchain solutions, crypto wallets and tokenized financially related transactions.

Chris has over 20+ years working in the payments and risk space across strategy, product innovation, and technology roles. Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Chris has held positions with organizations such as Bank of America, Accenture, Early Warning Services and American Express.

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Dave Martin

Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response, Open Systems

Dave Martin brings to Open Systems more than 20 years of experience with IT security and networking technologies in a variety of engineering, product marketing, product management and business development roles. He currently serves as the Senior Director, Product Management - Threat Response responsible for market positioning, product strategy and feature definition for Open Systems' global extended detection and response services.

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Thomas Hill

CIO, Live Oak Bank

With more than 20 years of IT and security experience, Thomas has spent the majority of his career working in senior IT, Risk, and Security positions in technology and financial service institutions. As CISO, Thomas leads Live Oak's technology risk management and security operations. He provides leadership for developing and implementing technology and security initiatives that support the mission, vision, and long-term objectives of Live Oak Bank. Thomas holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA with a specialty focus in Management of Information Systems and Security from Saint Leo University. He also holds several industry IT and security certifications, including CISSP, CIPT, and CISM.

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Avi Shau

CEO and Co-Founder, Orca Security

Avi has more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. Prior to co-founding Orca Security, Avi was the chief technologist at Check Point Software Technologies and held key positions within Unit 8200, the Israeli NSA. While at Check Point, he built and scaled cybersecurity solutions that continue to protect tens of thousands of organizations to this day. Avi believes that cybersecurity products should always support the organization and not the other way around.

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Thomas Malta

Former Head of Identity and Access Management, Navy Federal Credit Union, CEO and Principal IAM Experts, LLC

Tom Malta's extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 25+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Global Cyber Security Solutions. Over the past 20+ years he's led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is currently the Head of IAM at Navy Federal Credit Union where he is responsible for design, development, and execution of cyber technology solutions to support the overall IAM Strategy. The team is currently focused on the firm's transformation of both workforce and member (aka customer IAM) to drive more automation, agile development, and improve the effectiveness of existing IAM and Cyber Security Controls.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to research papers. His passion for the space is unparalleled, and enjoys staying current with emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, ML, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain.

Prior to Navy Federal, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also a Board Member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance,  an active participant of various IAM Customer Advisory Board's, and a distinguished Ponemon Fellow

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Tarique Amin Bhuiyan

Managing Director, Dhaka Stock Exchange

Tarique Amin Bhuiyan joined as the Managing Director of the premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited (DSE) on July 25, 2021. Tarique Amin Bhuiyan, a skilled and experienced leader in administration and business management, digital & financial technology and IT, started his career as a graduate trainee of the International Financial Institution ANZ GrindlaysBank, Bangladesh. Later he has served in several important positions for over 25 years in various organizations including ING, St. George and Westpac & global consulting companies like TCS, Accenture & Infosys etc. He also served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of BRAC Bank Limited and as the Founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mobile Money Transfer Company Bkash.

Prior to joining DSE, he was an IT consultant of Friendship NGO, a non-profit organization in Bangladesh, and also the Founder, CEO & CTPO (Chief Technology and Products Officer) of Hashkloud Pty Ltd., Australia. Tarique Amin Bhuiyan obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from IBA, University of Dhaka. He later received his Master in Commerce in Information Systems and Technology from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Tarique also recently received post-graduation certificate in Management from Australian Institute of Business (AIB). Tarique received advanced training on Blockchain, Change / Project Management, etc. from various reputed institutes in USA and Australia. He also completed ""Certificate Blockchain Expert"" (CBE) certification at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Tarique also has a Blockchain Patent in his name. Tarique has also received training in various subjects including DevOps Master Course, PMI-ACP (PMI-Agile Certified Professional) certification training in Sydney, Australia, and PROSCI Change Management Certification Training in Portland, USA.

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Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Pant

National Cybersecurity Coordinator-PMO, Govt. of India

Pant is national cybersecurity coordinator in the national security council of India at the prime minister's office. He is responsible for coordinating all cybersecurity activities across multiple sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in information security metrics. Previously, he was the head of the Army's cyber training establishment for three years. He served in the Army Signals Corps for 41 years and was honored three times by the president of India for distinguished service of the highest order.

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Mubashir Afzal Mir

Technical Solutions Architect, APJC, Duo Security, Cisco

Mir is Duo Technical Solutions Architect, APJC at Duo Security, Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the senior principal engineer at Dell Technology. He was also the global technical architect for modern workspace at Unisys.

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Sudip Banerjee

Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler

Banerjee is director transformation strategy for APJ at Zscaler. He has expertise in the banking and finance industry, with experience in driving digital transformation programs, public cloud SaaS adoption and re-architecting network infrastructure for enhanced user productivity with an improved security posture. He has worked in consulting with PwC and ran a CRM automation program across GE Consumer Finance. He also served as the group CTO for a diversified group of businesses.

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Rahul Dani

Senior Solution Engineer - Networking & Security, VMware

Rahul Dani has over 13 years of industry experience helping many large brands, BFSI, PSU and ITES organizations across India & Sri Lanka in their Digital Transformation Journey. Currently with VMware, he is responsible for helping customers to design a secure multi-cloud solutions for delivering modern applications and security solutions.

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Shahla Khan

Global Black Belt - Zero Trust, Microsoft

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Seema Kumar

CTO, Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft

"Seema Kumar leads technology strategy and programs for the Global Partner Solutions organization at Microsoft India. In this role she works across the diverse partner ecosystem of GSIs, services and ISV organizations, to align and enable them on Microsoft technologies, accelerate repeatable IP based solutions and practice development. She leads a talented team of technology professionals specialized on solution areas across Cloud Infrastructure, Application Innovation, Data, AI, Business Applications, Modern Work and Security. Prior to joining Microsoft, Seema spent over 15 years at IBM India, accumulating varied experiences, leading technical and business functions across product development, offering management, developer ecosystems and technical pre-sales. She has managed several global and domestic missions, nurturing and growing strong technical talent. Seema is a regular speaker at various technical conferences and the author of three technical patents"

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Arvind Sharma

Enterprise Technology Specialist, APAC, Trellix

Arvind Sharma is an Enterprise Technology Specialist for Trellix Device Security Portfolio. He has over 20 years of experience in Cyber Security Domain. He is responsible for developing field team regarding Trellix ’s Device Security Solutions. These include Endpoint Security, Application Control, Server Security, Endpoint Detection and Response. He works with various large customer from BFSI, Government and IT/ITeS domain across APAC in addressing their infrastructure security requirements and helping them with their XDR journey. Arvind Sharma has completed his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and holds multiple industry certifications and qualifications and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

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Manish Sinha

Director of Sales Engineering, South Asia, Trellix

"Manish Sinha is the Director of Sales Engineering, South Asia at Trellix and is responsible for sales engineering and technical operations. As a cybersecurity veteran & trusted advisor with more than 20 years of experience in a range of Enterprise and MSS Security platforms, he has helped organizations strengthen their security posture and incidence response frameworks. Manish is passionate about technology and a big advocate of the need for far more collaboration across stakeholders in cybersecurity. Some of the programs spearheaded by him, have helped develop the ecosystem for actionable security intelligence sharing & threat remediation"

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