Vijay Kumar

Vijay is the Founder of DigiFortex (https://www.digifortex.com), a Consulting venture exclusively focused on Penetration Testing, Security, Privacy & GRC. Major offerings: Penetration Testing (VA/PT) Governance, Risk and Compliance(GRCaaS) Certification Readiness - ISO27001, ISO27701, SOC 2 Type II, HIPPA & Others CISO As A Service(v-CISO) Security & Data Privacy Assessments 24/7 Cloud Monitoring & Detection Project Delivered for Fortune 500 companies including #1 US Bank and #1 Indian Bank with Global Footprints About Vijay: Vijay is a graduate of NIT Warangal, IIIT-Bangalore and ISB Hyderabad with stints at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). Besides an avid marathon runner, Vijay is an inventor with 16 US patents across Information Security, SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud), AI/ML and Video/Media with one of his patents published on IP.com(US). As an early member at McAfee India, Vijay was instrumental in starting flagship security teams post Israeli and Canadian acquisitions across DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) and Cryptography product lines. Besides, Vijay has worked across start-up (Bangalore Labs), Wipro, Adobe, Oracle and TiVo for 19 years before starting DigiFortex, a venture on Data Security, Cloud, Privacy and GRC. Vijay is certified on Data Privacy, Cloud, Security, Networks, Network Management, GRC, AI/ML, Firewall/VPN, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Vijay consults, writes, and speaks on Security, Cloud, Privacy, Emerging Tech, Blockchain, AR/VR, IoT, Digital Transformation & AI/ML across India, UAE and Europe. Vijay has been panellists and moderator at Convergence India (a Ministry of Commerce - Government of India event) at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi and at Dubai & Amsterdam Fin-Techs (2019,2020 & 2021). Vijay has been invited to keynote at IIM Lucknow, IIM Udaipur, ISB Hyderabad, PMI, Tata Group, Sony India, Aditya Birla Group, Mercedes Benz, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), ICFAI, CMR, IFIM, Bangalore, Hyderabad & Mumbai universities and at various other conferences. Besides, Vijay has been writing for newspaper editorials and has written across Telangana Today, The Indian Economist, Qrius, Mathrubhumi, Medium, Daily Hunt, and IndianRetailer.com. Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.digifortex.com