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Raj Badhwar    

Cybersecurity Speaker, CISO at Various organization & Author of 3 Cybersecurity books.

"Raj has presented on various cybersecurity topics at security conferences like RSAC, Gartner, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA),Cyber Defense Contractor and HMG Security Conference.

Badhwar has 28 years of experience in the IT and Cybersecurity industry. He’s had several IT/Security leadership roles in the industry – Currently a Field CISO at Oracle, formerly the Global CISO at Voya Financial, Global Head of Security at AIG, and other IT/Security leadership roles at BAE Systems, Bank of America & AOL Time Warner. He also held a top-secret clearance from the DoD.

Badhwar is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP), a certified ethical Hacker (CEH), Oracle cloud certified professional (OCP), and a FINRA licensed securities professional (Series 99). He has authored three cybersecurity books, "The CISO Guide to Zero Trust Security", "The CISO’s Next Frontier: AI", "Post-Quantum Cryptography and Advanced Security Paradigms", and "The CISO’s Transformation": Security leadership in a high threat landscape. He has co-authored 14 security patents, written many security articles for magazines and presented at security conferences.

He received a security leadership award in 2021, and the Top CISO award for the years 2021 and 2022. Badhwar serves on the customer advisory board of Venafi, the CXO Trust Council of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), and the CISO advisory council for Infosys.

Speech Topics


Security Function Buildout

In order to build or revamp a security program, the CISO must define a security vision and strategy, with its foundations laid on standardized security pillars and effective leadership principles.

  • This session shares a brief primer on the fundamental constructs which may come in handy for new CISOs/CSOs and other senior cybersecurity professionals as they embark on their security org/function revamp or buildout.

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