Parag Deodhar, Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company

Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company

Deodhar is the managing director of internal audit at Accenture. He is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 22 years of experience in enterprise risk management, operational risk, and fraud risk management. Prior to joining Accenture, he held leadership roles at VF Corp., AXA Group, and KPMG.

Panel Discussion: To Pay or Not to Pay Ransom: The C-Suite Debate

Presented by Parag Deodhar, Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company , Krishna Sastry Pendyala (Advisory Member), Partner, Cyber Security, Ernst & Young , Ashish Gopal Saxena, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd • July 4, 2022

Ransomware attacks continue to plague organizations at an alarming pace; the debate among the C-suite on the issue of paying the ransom or refusing to pay and dealing with the consequences is getting critical. Some experts say that paying the ransom makes an organization vulnerable to reputational risk. This also...

Panel Discussion : Impact of the Hybrid Cyber Warfare on the Supply Chain: Sizing Up the Security Risks

Presented by Parag Deodhar, Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company , Kunal Sehgal, Former Managing Director, GRF, OT-ISAC , Venkatesh Subramaniam • April 8, 2022

We typically think of supply chain attacks as stealthy attacks on hardware components, such as malware on laptops and network devices. Still, the supply chain attack was an attack on a service provider that cannot be ruled out as it is a significant intrusion of the entire ecosystem. The supply chain attacks ushers in...

Panel Discussion: IAM: Are You All in or Just Dipping Your Toes? CISOs’ Stakes

Presented by Parag Deodhar, Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company , Shane Read, Former Global CISO, Noble Group and vCISO, TJL Cyber, Hong Kong , Virag Thakkar, President of ISC2 Bangkok chapter • May 25, 2021

In this panel session we talk to CISOs about how their IAM challenges have been compounded since going remote and what security controls they’ve put in place to assist this change. We also discuss the importance of adopting a holistic identity strategy and how to get the business on side to support this. Join...

Effectively Translating Technology and Cyber Risk for the Board

Presented by Parag Deodhar, Managing Director - Internal Audit, Global IT Audit Lead, Large IT Services Company , Nandkishore Dhomne , Subramanya Boda Gupta , Radhakishnan Menon , Ravinder Pal Singh • April 27, 2017

Moderator: Pratap Reddy, Additional Director General of Police, CID at Criminal Investigation Department, Karnataka State Police In an environment where security threats are steadily increasing and business dependence on technology and the attendant risks are higher than ever before, practitioners are also having...