MBA(with distinction) from UK and PhD from the University of Madras. FCA, CISA, CISSP, CISM.
Director & CEO of Valiant Technologies Pvt Ltd. and Adjunct Professor at the University of Madras. Information security consultant, trainer and educator for over two decades. Consultant on information security and assurance domains across Gulf nations, India, Far East and Africa for organizations in the commercial, government, armed forces, judiciary and law enforcement segments.
Currently serving as India’s country representative at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP); serving on their Technical Committee TC-11 dealing with information security. Also, current Chairman of ISCCRF, a not-for-profit trust carrying out research in cyber crime management
Served earlier as Global Chair of the Education and Awareness Principles Expert Group of Globally Accepted Information Security Principles (GAISP), based in the United States and is former Global Chair of the Accreditation Process committee of Open Information Systems Security Group (OISSG), based in the UK where he established their certification and accreditation processes.
Charter President of the first chapter of ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) in Asia and served on the boards of Dubai, Bangalore and Chennai chapters of ISACA.
Certified and experienced professional in the areas of creating and implementing secure information security architecture; internal controls systems and processes; business continuity and disaster recovery plans; security audits and certification of network infrastructure; multi-factor authentication processes (including PKI and X.509 compliant certification infrastructure); and certification of SOX, COSO, CoBIT, ISO-27001, ISO-17799 and ISO-15408 compliant information security management systems.
ormerly Managing Director of Thewo Corporate Services based in Lusaka, Zambia; Group Operations Director or Benetone Group of Companies based in Bangkok, Thailand and Commercial Director of Dynaspede Integrated Systems Ltd, based in Mumbai.
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