Ravikiran Avvaru

Head-IT & Security, APAC, ME & Africa, Apollo Tyres

RaviKiran Avvaru currently serves as CISO at Toyota India. Prior to being named CISO, he was Head of Information Security and Compliance at Toyota Motor. Prior to joining Toyota, Avvaru was Head of Security and Compliance at ABB, and Deputy Manager, Information Systems Department at Bombay Stock Exchange Limited.

Data Breaches and Fraud Detection: How to Engage With Law Enforcement, Regulators and Policy Makers

Presented by Ravikiran Avvaru , Subhro Dey , Satyavathi Divadari, Chapter Chair, Cloud Security Alliance Bangalore Chapter (CSA) , Minatee Mishra , Sridhar Sidhu, Managing Director and Head of Cybersecurity Services Group, Wells Fargo , Naavi Vijayashankar • March 29, 2019

Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law enforcement...

Panel: Securing IoT Devices: A Security-By-Design Approach

Presented by Ravikiran Avvaru , Gyana Bardhan Pattnaik , Vishal Jaitak , Minatee Mishra • April 16, 2018

The government of India is hopeful that the nation can build a $15 billion Internet of Things industry by 2020. MeitY has been developing standards for operating IoT across technologies and using data security as an enabler for adopting IoT. According to a recent study, India now has 41 IoT use cases, including...

The Equifax Breach and What It Could Mean to India

Presented by Ravikiran Avvaru , K. K. Mookhey , Shivkumar Pandey, Group CISO, BSE Ltd. , Krishna Sastry Pendyala (Advisory Member), Partner, Cyber Security, Ernst & Young • November 6, 2017

Equifax, the credit reporting bureau, recently revealed that hackers had stolen the data of 145.5 million Americans, as well as millions in the U.K. and some in Canada. Like many high-profile breaches, the Equifax breach was caused by a failure to update software components that were known to be vulnerable....