The CISO certification recognizes an individual’s accumulated skills developing, executing and information security management strategy in alignment with the organizational goals CISO equips information security leaders with the most effective tool sets to defend organizations from cyber attacks. To rise to the role of CISO, strong technical knowledge and experience is more imperative now than ever before but it must be accompanied by the ability to communicate in business value. CISO understand that their information security decisions often have a direct impact on the organizational operational cost, efficiency and agility. As organizations introduce new technologies, CISO will develop and communicate a strategy to avoid potential risk stemming from their implementation to the organization’s operations.
· Middle level managers aspiring for CISO positions
· Existing CISOs for improving their processes / programs
· Anyone who wants to understand how a CISO function
Vaibhav Patkar
Vaibhav Patkar has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Information Security. He has worked with companies like J P Morgan, IBM and Sutherland etc. He has set up data centers, call centers and Information security infrastructure in his tenure with these companies. He is currently advising and consulting to banks, government agencies and other private companies in their endeavors towards better compliance by implementing appropriate security policies and tools.
He was CISO of Zenta for six years and was Head of Risk & Compliance for around 7 years or so. During his tenure with Sutherland, he has expanded their ISO 27001 Information Security certified centers from 15 to 55 by implementing the appropriate controls across India, Philippines, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Egypt, Dubai, Canada, USA, Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil and Columbia. He also helped the company achieve PCI DSS certification for more than 15 clients across above mentioned geos. Some of the clients have more than 10 centers for successive years. He also led the team who helped Healthcare wing complied with HIPAA and HiTrust certifications. He also helped in companies’ privacy specific activities and helped getting the EU-US Privacy Shield certification. He has also set up a Security Operations Center (SOC) for the companies he worked with. He was responsible for India Compliance for the outsourcing projects during his tenure with IBM.
He graduated from University of Mumbai and attended a management workshop from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) – Ahmedabad. He has following International certifications related to Information Security.
• Certified Information Systems Auditor – CISA
• Certified Information Security Manager – CISM
• Certified in Risk & Information Security Control – CRISC
• Certified in Governance in Enterprise Information Technology – CGEIT
• Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer – CDPSE
• Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge – CCSK
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional – CISSP
• Associate Member of Business Continuity Institute – AMBCI
• ISO27001 Information Security Implementer / Auditor
• ISO22301 Business Continuity Auditor
He has been actively involved with ISACA – Mumbai Chapter, having worked on the Managing Committee of the Chapter and has also been the President of the Chapter. He conducts CISA, CISM, CRISC & CDPSE training sessions for ISACA Mumbai Chapters and also a visiting faculty in few management colleges in Mumbai.