Mumbai/London – Jan 10, 2022 – Inspira has announced a partnership with the rapidly growing British cybersecurity company, OutThink, to introduce the world’s first cybersecurity human risk management solution to the region.

In forming a strategic partnership with OutThink, Inspira envisions to implement Human Risk Management Services from its Security Operations Center at Navi Mumbai. Inspira’s wide customer base in India, Middle East, Africa, and ASEAN Countries will now be able to prudently assess and mitigate their organizations’ human cyber risk exposure. Part of the offering, OutThink’s computer-based security awareness training solution is the highest rated solution on Gartner Peer Insights given its unique and innovative approach. OutThink provides a social experience that is fun and gamified, improving both knowledge and engagement of enterprise users. The learning dynamically adjusts to the audience depending on their role, risk profile, and current level of understanding resulting in highly targeted training content.

It is anticipated that this exciting partnership between Inspira’s value added services and OutThink’s technology will strengthen an organisation’s cyber security defences in areas such as:

– Cyber security awareness training

– Determining user vulnerability to sophisticated phishing attacks

– Safeguarding employee email accounts

– Understanding organisation’s human cyber risk

Manoj Kanodia, CEO, Inspira Enterprise states that “CISOs will now be able to take a sigh of relief, aligning the best security practices with OutThink’s intelligent SaaS platform.”

Taking this ambitious vision further, Om Ahuja, CTO & CISO, Inspira Enterprise said “OutThink’s security awareness platform will empower people to become the first line of defense for their organizations. Inspira’s partnership with OutThink will enhance the security and integrity amongst our customers and will deliver the overall human risk picture, providing a solid foundation for risk-based decision making and treatment prioritization along with targeted improvement actions.”

Flavius Plesu, Founder & CEO at OutThink: “As a former CISO, I believe that security awareness must align employee behavior with the business and security goals of the organization. We provide clients with the next-generation security awareness platform to effectively turn people into human sensors for cyber security and empower them to become the strongest defense mechanism of the organization. To be successful in any market, it is key to align with local specialist partners who understand both our technology and the local customer needs. We are delighted to be partnering with Inspira, who will now further extend our reach into India and the Middle East, African and ASEAN countries.

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Amit Ghodekar Joins Axis Bank as a Vice President – Information Security

Amit Ghodekar joined Axis Bank in September 2021 where he holds the position of Vice President – Information Security. Previously he worked at Cover-More Group as a Global Head Cyber Security from May 2020-Sep 2021.

His new responsibilities include:

  • Heading the Cyber Assurance function of India’s 3rd largest Bank.
  • Risk Assessment / Risk Management
  •  Regulatory / Industry Standard Compliance
  •  Fraud Detection/ Online Transaction Monitoring
  • Effective Employee & Customer Awareness
  •  Research on innovative cutting edge cyber security solutions
  •  Incident Response / Threat Remediation
  •  Win-Win Contract / Partnership Negotiations
  •  Good contacts with Law & Enforcement, Cyber Crime Cell & Various Govt Agencies
  •  Digital Risk Management

In past, he has worked with Angel Broking Pvt Ltd, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, Cover-More Group as a full-time employee. Amit Ghodekar holds  MBA, IT, Distinction from United Business Institutes which is located in Brussels Region.

With appreciation, from many peers and members, one of the peers says that “Amit is very hardworking, one of gives 100% efforts at whatever he is assigned. He delegates tasks accurately and supports the team to the core.

 

He has been recognised with Awards like: 

  • Indias TOP 20 Cyber Security Influencers
  • Top 20 IT leaders BFSI Innovation & Technology Award
  • India’s TOP IT Security Influencers & Community Contributors
  • Top 100 Infosec Maestros in India
  • ITNEXT India’s Future CIO 2016
  • BFSI Tech Maestro Awards 2016
  • Best CISO of the Year Award
  • EC-Council Foundation InfoSec Tech & Exec Awards Finalist
  • India’s TOP IT Security Influencers & Community Contributors
  • We for You – Angels TOP Performer Award

 

Please click here to know more about Amit Ghodekar.

About Axis Bank

Axis Bank is the third-largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture, and Retail Businesses.

The Bank has a large footprint of 4,528 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 12,044 ATMs & 5,433 cash recyclers spread across the country as of 31st March 2020. The overseas operations of the Bank are spread over eleven international offices with branches at Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai (at the DIFC), Colombo, Shanghai, and Gift City-IBU; representative offices at Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and an overseas subsidiary at London, UK. The international offices focus on corporate lending, trade finance, syndication, investment banking, and liability businesses.

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Komal Vora Joins Yes Bank as new Group Executive VP – Head of IS Audit Vertical

Komal Vora has recently joined Yes Bank as their Group Executive VP – Head of IS Audit Vertical. Previously she was working with Mizuho as a Vice President for more than 5 years later on she got promoted as the Sr. Vice President where her responsibilities included Information Technology Audit- IT Governance, Application Security review, IT Infrastructure, IT General controls, Themed Audit, ISO 27001Assurance audit, Pre implementation and Post implementation Project Audit, and much more.

Komal Vora  has 20 + years of experience in Information Security, IT Governance & she is a  Cyber Security risk professional. She also has working experience with Multinational bank (Current – Mizuho Bank, HSBC Bank) and Indian Bank (Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC bank). Furthermore, worked with Multinational consulting (KPMG & Grant Thornton) and Indian consulting (Aneja Associates).

Komal Vora is Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), MCSC, and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). She holds B.Sc degree from Bhavan’s College, Andheri.

To connect with her on LinkedIn, click here.

About YES Bank

YES Bank has been recognized amongst the Top and Fastest Growing Banks in various Indian Banking League Tables by prestigious media houses and Global Advisory Firms, and has received several national and international honours for our various Businesses including Corporate Investment Banking, Treasury, Transaction Banking, and Sustainability at YES BANK.

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Ravindra Seshagiri Hassan Joins Pluralsight as new Vice President-Engineering

Ravindra Seshagiri Hassan recently joined Pluralsight as their Vice President-Engineering. Previously he was working with Infoblox as India Site Leader-IT while working with Infoblox, he has been demonstrating success in building India Team across EP, CRM, SFDC, CPQ, SFDC Service Cloud. He also possess proven experience in developing and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external business partners including effectively managing third-party suppliers, coordinating with leads developing strategies to implement various IT solutions effectively, and mauch more.
Ravindra Seshagiri Hassan is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and also holds certificates like Fortering Inclusion and Diversity, Fostering Inclusion and Diversity and Life time member Leadership excellence.

He is also been recognized with awards like:

  • Life time member – Harvard Square
  • CFO Excellence award for outstanding contribution on Divestiture project
  • IT NEXT FUTURE CIO award
  • Part of the top 50 Leaders chosen for Advanced leadership development program
  • Best team performance awards in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 for the project delivered
  • Key Note speaker in ASUG – North America Chapter
  • Member for the Forbes Technology Council
  • Member of the CIO Klub – Bangalore Chapter.
  • Won Technology Adoption Award from Microsoft in 2004 in Windows 2003 server Challenge (participated by 900 companies across 80 countries, we were the only company from India to win 3rdprize)

 

To connect with him on LinkedIn, click here.

 

 

About Pluralsight

Pluralsight is a tech workforce development company that helps teams build better products by knowing more and working better together.

Specialities of Pluralsight:

Ruby, ASP.NET, MVC, Cisco Hardware and Networking, Windows Server, jQuery, Visual Studio, SharePoint, MySQL, iOS, PHP, Maya, Developer to Architect, Bootstrap, Java, MapReduce, Hadoop, After Effects, C++, Virtualization, and Unity.

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Darshan Chavan Joins Canara Robeco Asset Management Company Limited as new CISO

Darshan Chavan has recently joined Canara Robeco Asset Management Company Limited as their Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Previously he was working with SBI Mutual Funds as Information Security Officer.

Darshan Chavan started his career as Trainee Engineer at Tata Teleservices Ltd., after Tata Teleservices Ltd. Darshan joined K Raheja Universal Pvt Ltd. as Manager IT, getting a good experience from this company he switched to RMF as Information Security Officer. After RMF he joined SBI Mutual Funds.

Darshan Chavan holds Bachelor of commerce degree from University of Mumbai which is on mission to create a high level professionals by providing them different specialisation knowledge in the field of finance, marketing, HR, operation and systems. the institute has a wide facilities of library, reading hall and experienced professors with full dedication and sincere. tghe institute also look after the placement activities of this student with full time availibility of placement officer. the institute will be pleased to assist any company in regards to fulfill their placement requirements and to assosciate themselves with institute activities.

To connect with him on LinkedIn, click here.

About Canara Robeco Asset Management Company Limited

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund is the second oldest Mutual Fund in India, established in December 1987 as Canbank Mutual Fund. Subsequently, in 2007, Canara Bank partnered with Robeco (now a part of ORIX Corporation, Japan) and the mutual fund was renamed as Canara Robeco Mutual Fund. Since then, it has consistently been one of the fastest growing mutual funds in India in terms of AuM. Our solutions offer a range of investment options, including diversified and thematic equity schemes, hybrid and monthly income funds and a wide range of debt and treasury products.

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Subhakar Rudra Joins WPIL Limited as their CIO

Subhakar Rudra has recently joined WPIL Ltd. as their Chief Information Officer (CIO). Previously he was working as the CIO at Titagarh where he was responsible for overseeing digital aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals. He was also responsible for Monitoring system infrastructure, quality assurance data protection processes, and much more.

Subhakar Rudra is an IT Business Partner and Digital transformation leader with more than 23+ years of experience in various industry verticals (B2B, B2C) – Manufacturing, Healthcare & IT Consultancy. He Derived Digital initiatives in partnership with CXOs to support the sustainable business roadmap of the Organization, adapting to rapidly changing environments to ensure bottom-line success. He has rich experience in the implementation & management of Enterprise IT applications (SAP, HIMS, etc.), IT infrastructure, Information Security, IT Governance & Compliance, Cloud & Mobility.

His new responsibilities as a CIO at WPIL Ltd. include:

  • Responsible for enabling the business to run more efficiently, through technology.
  • Entrusted to streamline, draw a long-term digital strategy and road map for ERP, IT Infrastructure, Information Security management, and technology.
  • To create the digital backbone and execute digital strategy across the value chain with a sharp focus on growth, risk mitigation, and engagement.
  •  Good contacts with Law & Enforcement, Cyber Crime Cell & Various Govt Agencies
  •  Digital Risk Management

In past, he has worked with PCS Technology Ltd., Usha Martin Limited, CK Birla Hospitals, Titagarh, and currently he is leading WPIL Ltd.

Subhakar Rudra completed his MBA, IT from SMU. which is a world-class faculty renowned for its teaching excellence and mentorship, peer engagement with a diverse student body, and networking opportunities with industry business leaders provide an enriching learning experience.

With appreciation, from many peers and members, one of the peers says that “Subhakar Rudra was responsible for IT Infrastructure & Security for all the Group Hospitals. He was also Head of Unit IT of BM Birla Hospital. Subhakar’s Design & execution skills enabled them to create a state-of-the-art on-premise Data Centre to host their Centralized portfolio of Applications. He is always calm under pressure and a great asset for any Team. Wish him all the best.

He has been recognized with awards like:

  • Bold CISO Award
  • Best CIO in East
  • CSO 100 Award 2019 (Chief Security Officer)
  • Big 50 CISO Award
  • CSO 100 Award 2018 (Chief Security Officer)
  • Wizards of IT Award
  • Future CIO Of India Award
  • Best Project Manager

To connect with him on LinkedIn, click here.

About WPIL Limited

WPIL Limited dedicates itself to the cause of total customer satisfaction. The Company has credited a rich experience of more than 65 years in Designing, Developing, Manufacturing, Erecting, Commissioning, and Servicing of Pumps & Pumping Systems.

After consolidating its position as a leading pump and pumping systems company in India the company has expanded its operations globally and now has manufacturing operations in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Switzerland, South Africa, Zambia, Australia, and Thailand through its Group companies. Combining country-specific experience and optimizing synergies within the Group the aim is to cover the Global spectrum of pumps and pumping systems. Further constant investment in manufacturing and R&D supported by 12 manufacturing locations covering the entire process of pump manufacture from Casting, fabrication, machining, assembly, and testing have allowed it to deliver great value to its client by enhancing efficiencies at every step.

The company continues its expansion into newer markets and is focused on becoming a global leader in its sector.

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Nilesh Roy Joins Spocto Solutions Pvt. Ltd. as CISO & Vice President – IT Operations

Nilesh Roy Joins Spocto Solutions Pvt. Ltd. as a CISO & Vice President – IT Operations. Before this, Nilesh was the CISO and Head of Information Technology at VGM Consultants Private Limited. In his new role, Nilesh will look after all aspects of IT Operations, IT Compliance, and Information Security.

Nilesh is an executive-level IT management professional with more than 25+ years of progressive experience in InfoSec, Technology Operations, Delivery Management, Service Revenue Management, Gross Margin profitability, Service Delivery, Remote Infrastructure Management, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Consulting, Strategy Planning, ERP Greenfield Implementations & ERP Harmonisation across regions.

Nilesh Roy started his career with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai in the field of Electronics and Telecommunications in the year 1996. Later on, he did a post-graduation certificate program from Columbia Business School. His first job was through a campus selection at Datapro Infoworld as a Sr. Customer Support Engineer. His hard work and dedication gave him many chances to prove himself and he proved too.

He has Domain Expertise and Consulting experience in multiple industry verticals like High Tech (AI & ML), Manufacturing, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Media, Logistics, Transportation, and Power Distribution In his career span now, he has worked with start-ups, small, big and large enterprises like S.K.International, Hexaware Technologies,  Shinsei Bank, Capgemini, Nucleus GIS & ITeS Ltd., Barclays Bank, Bhilai Engineering Corporation Limited, TagWings Technologies Pvt. Ltd., VGM Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

He is also on CISO Advisory Board at EC-Council, an Executive Member at CyberEdBoard Community, Global Honorary Committee Member in Security & Cyber Security Committee at Della Leaders Club’s Mumbai Chapter, Member of the ICTTF (International Cyber Threat Task Force). These are pro-bono volunteer activities aimed at contributing back to the industry & society.

Please click here to know more about Nilesh Roy.

About Spocto Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Spocto Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Big Data Analytics Company focused on ‘Individual Consumer Data-driven Insights’ on a mass scale to significantly enhance the effectiveness of business and marketing actions. They provide unique tailored solutions to each client as compared to offering a standard package.

Their proprietary algorithms apply machine learning to multiple digital touch-points of 200+ million individual personas sourced from 47+ data sources, and continually curate them to keep it “LIVE”. Thereon, they use trademarked predictive artificial intelligence to draw insights and provide specific recommendations. These unique capabilities allow them to enrich persona data from the public domain with not only demographic but also behavioral & psychographic information on a hyper-personalized scale.

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Bharat Panchal joins Discover Financial Services

Bharat Panchal makes his leadership movement from FIS Global to Discover Financial Services. After working for FIS Global for 2 years as a Chief Risk Officer (CRO), Bharat Panchal has joined Discover Financial Services as their Chief Industry Relations & Regulatory Officer – India.

Bharat Panchal started his career as a Quality system admin in AVAYA Globalconnect Ltd in 1992 and continued there for eight consecutive years. Previously, he has also worked with many eminent firms like Contech Software Ltd, Reliance Communications, Citi Technology Services, Kotak Mahindra Bank, National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), PCI Security Standards Council, Indian Investors Federation, Sri Sri School of Cyber Peace at Sri University. In the past few years of his career, his responsibilities included leading the testing team, Head –Business Continuity & Compliance Risk, Responsible for the management, development, and implementation of the internal audit function, etc.

About Discover Financial Services

Discover Financial Services  is one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services, they create solutions that connect people to commerce in more rewarding ways. Their lending products and payment services go far beyond consumer credit, to enable millions of merchants to run their businesses, to explore new markets, power fin-tech companies, and most importantly—help people to build a brighter financial future. The Discover Network provides card acceptance at millions of businesses and cash access locations. They operate the ATM debit network, PULSE; and Diners Club International has acceptance in more than 185 countries and territories.

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Sanil Nadkarni joins BYJU’s FutureSchool

Sanil Nadkarni joins BYJU’s FutureSchool as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Before this, Sanil was the CISO & DPO in SLK Global Solutions / Coforge for 6 + years. In his new role, Sanil Nadkarni will look after all aspects of Infosec and Cybersecurity.

He is executive-level management professional with more than 16+ years of core Information Security, Fraud & Risk Management, and compliance experience with leading Fortune 500 multinational companies like Symantec, Convergys, MphasiS, and Hp company, and Capita.

His professional experience spans across Banking, Financial, Telecommunications & Information Technology services industries in India, the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, and EMEA countries. He has experience from high-end security product implementation to the deployment of process controls and managing information security Risk and managing risk across various geographical.

You can learn more about him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanil-n-95306b13/#

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Ranjan Revandkar joins HDB Financial Services Ltd.

Ranjan Revandkar joins HDB Financial Services Ltd. as a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer). HDB is a subsidiary of HDFC Bank Limited. It is also one of the leading and fast-expanding firms to provide financial services.

In HDB Financial Services Ltd. his responsibilities include:

  • New technology evaluation and implementation
  • Risk Management
  • IT Security Operations
  • Endpoint and Network Security Management
  • Audit and Compliance

He achieved the CISO position with great and endless efforts. His journey began as a manager trainee at HDFC Bank Ltd. and his hard work and dedication led him to many promotions in the same company.

He has also worked with many big firms like Kotak Mahindra Bank, RBL Bank, SUN Pharma, and today he is holding the position of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at HDB Financial Service Ltd.

Ranjan Revandka believes that success in Information Security is as good as People-Process and Technology Integration. He specializes in Information Risk Management, Setting up Information Security and related Infrastructure, Application Security, Infra Audits, Building framework against Advance Threats, Team Development, etc.

He also has Hands-on experience with security products like Secure Web Gateway, FireEye, WebInspect, Nessus, DLP, DRM, SOC, etc.

You can learn more about him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan-revandkar-3545256/

About HDB Financial Services Ltd.

HDB Financial Services Ltd. was incorporated in 2007. It is one of the leading Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) that caters to the growing needs of an Aspirational India, serving both Individual & Business Clients.

HDB Financial Services Ltd. is a well-established business with strong capitalization. HDBFS is accredited with CARE AAA & CRISIL AAA ratings for its long-term debt & Bank facilities and an A1+ rating for its short-term debt & commercial papers, making it a strong and reliable financial institution.

They offer a wide range of secured and unsecured loans to their customers. They provide a one-stop shop for all requirements, be it loans, investments, or protection. They had quickly grown to have more than 1300 Branches spread across 24 States & 3 Union Territories.

At HDB, honesty, integrity, and respect for people are strongly fostered in their culture. They respect their people’s individuality and diversity, encouraging them to develop their careers in a stimulating environment keeping in line with our values. They also have over 64000 dedicated employees working & growing with them across different functional verticals.

 

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