#csa Distinguished Lecture: Asymmetric Cyberwarfare-Lessons Learnt from Ukraine

Distinguished Speaker
Balaji Venkateshwar
Host
Dr. A. Adityanjee, President
Council for Strategic Affairs

About the Distinguished Speaker
Balaji Venkateshwar
Balaji is a Cyber Security Researcher & Business Executive with more than 25 years of experience and expertise in Security Analytics based improvised Security Posturing Hacking & Cyber Defense. He has innovated multiple solutions & created a de-novo framework to raise the bar of Cyber Security control and with “two Global Patents” granted, 5 filed & “One Trade Secret”. He is adept at executing smarter decisions in climates of considerable risk with ever bulging threat matrix for ensuring proactive cyber defense posturing.
Currently, he is on Advance Study on Cyber Security & use of a simulator with an internationally acclaimed research organization (Confidential). In his last assignment, he worked as Executive Director- Cyber Security for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and worked on India’s Largest Cyber Defense Project as Key Architect & Designer.
Balaji has also worked for State Bank of India, India’s largest Bank, Wipro as Head (Risk Management & Compliance), Bank of America as Vice President (Global Information Security) for Global Delivery Center & CISO(India) and Secure Matrix, a start-up in Cyber Security Research as Chief Executive Officer.
In order to contribute to Cyber Security Ecosystem, Resilience planning and Policy Formulation at the international and National levels, Balaji represents the following Committees:
Member Advisory Board for Global Cyberlympics
Member of the CII National Committee on Telecom & Broadband
Co-Chair of CII National Sub-Committee on Cyber Security