Divakar Prayaga
CSO & Co-founder @ PurpleLens.ai
About
Divakar is an Executive Leader with over 19 years of experience in information security and cyber risk management.He is the co-founder of PurpleLens.ai, an Agentic AI offensive security SaaS Platform.Prior to his entrepreneurial gig he built cybersecurity portfolios ground up multiple times hiring & nurturing high performance teams for Banking & Fintech for 14+ years, E-commerce & Integrated logistics during the last 4 years.He is a Mentor & Advisor for deep tech and cyber security startups, through NASSCOM Deep Tech Club, DSCI, & T-Hub. He helps these ventures to innovate, scale up and deliver world-class products and solutions in the areas of Information Security, AI, ML, Robotics, and other emerging Deeptech. He is also an inventor of two patents in the fields of cyber threat and holds multiple certifications in cyber security technologies.He pursued “General Management Program” from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in 2024.
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Non-profit Organization Management
Alternate Investments, Early Stage Investment, Customer Success, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Investor Relations, Growth Strategies, Financial Analysis, Start-up Ventures, Start-up Leadership, Partner Relationship Management, Venture Capital, Strategy, Problem Solving, Public Speaking, Communication, Marketing, Team Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Podcasting, Writing
Experience
CSO & Co-founder
PurpleLens.ai
Greater Bengaluru Area
Chief hustler and caffeine guzzler! People, Product, Culture, Business Strategy, Investor Relations, GTM, PMF & Growth
Angel Investor
CloudSEK
Seed Investor
Zippee
Early Investor
GIVA
Mentor/Advisor for cyber security startups
Data Security Council of India, Deep Tech Club and T-Hub
Global Director - Cyber Engineering
A.P. Moller - Maersk
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Global Cyber leader for CISO portfolios - Appsec/secure by design; Data security & information protection and OT/IOT; Cyber change delivery, community practices & cyber branding
CISO | SVP
CoinDCX
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Built Information Security Risk management framework for crypto currency business by partnering with critical business stakeholders, regulators and crypto industry players • Building Application security, Data Privacy, GRC, Cyber. Security Architecture and Infra security teams and programs to Protect, Detect, Respond & Recover from security events inline with regulatory and legal constructs.
Deputy CISO | Head of Cyber Defence
Flipkart
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
• Built a new age Information security organization ground up with proactive cyber defense practices and connecting operational nuances with Governance Risk and Compliance, Security Assurance/Application security, Data protection and privacy, Security Engineering functions. • M&A tech due diligence for acquired brands: Cleartrip, Myntra & numerous others • Tech integration with Walmart - Parent org • Administer department budgets and strategize new security investments
Vice President - Cyber Security
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Senior Manager-Information & Cyber Security
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru Area, India
• Lead Cyber Operations Monitoring & Response teams providing cyber security, mandatory compliance and business continuity services for Information Security group • Create and execute strategies to improve the reliability and security of IS projects • Spearhead cyber security & DLP incident response, SIEM content creation, malware investigations, threat hunting and mitigation procedures • Respond immediately to security-related incidents and provide a thorough post-event analysis
Manager - Security Services and Product Support
Cygilant
Hyderabad Area, India
• Built Security Operations Center ground up starting with single digit to 185 customer accounts to deliver multiple information security services on premise and over AWS cloud for small, medium and large enterprise customers • Initiated Vulnerability Management and Patch Management suite of services • Spearhead Security Operations Center and recruited multi-tier security analysts and engineers to deliver specialized information security services • Lead the product support team specialized in SIEM solutions and integration • Act as a key liaison between cloud and on premise SIEM solution development and information security service delivery team • Plan, Size and Build AWS – EC2 instances & S3 storage solutions for cloud SIEM service offering
Service Delivery Manager - Security Analytics
Cygilant
Hyderabad Area, India
• Lead a team of IS delivery specialists for on premise SIEM security services for major banking, services and retail clients. • Act as a key liaison between SIEM solution development teams and customers to provide tailored security services for specialized business needs • Built SIEM use case repository and provided solutions for integration of multiple information security technologies by creating tailored content
Education
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Business Administration and Management, General
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Government Law College, Mumbai
Cyber law
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Eectronics and Communications Engineering
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