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Emphasizing on

Being an Enabler

Rather than
With over 17 years of experience in At the same time, there is pressure Support System
the FMCG and NBFC sector, to implement the best technology
Avdhoot Bhogulkar has spent accurately. Balancing both is -Avdhoot
much of his time designing and always a task, but I have always felt
a r c h i t e c t i n g s e c u r i t y motivated to perform better and
i n f r a s t r u c t u r e s w h i l e a l s o deliver exceptional outcomes,
both in terms of cost and solution.
implementing enterprise-wide Avdhoot Bhogulkar
information security processes, Best IT Deployment Head- Networks & security,
projects, and initiatives. As the My best IT deployment project was Reliance Capital Ltd

CISO of Reliance Capital Ltd., he w h e n I w a s a p a r t o f t h e
works closely with business implementation of the NPCI data
functions to align IT. Avdhoot center at Mumbai and DR at
emphasizes being an enabler Chennai, along with the migration
rather than the support function. of the IDRBT setup to NPCI. I
handled the project end to end,
Achievements & from setting up the racks in the
Contributions in the IT Sector data center till the migration of NFS
and CTS setup to NPCI, aside from
During my career, I completed
many projects, such as the t h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n w i t h
implementation of the EDR and EPP Mastercard and Rupay.
t e c h n o l o g y a c r o s s 1 8 0 0 0 + Key Learnings
employees and 1400+ branches. I
also emphasized the replacement Project & Team Management
of legacy technologies with the along with Strategic Planning &
newer edge technologies without Management.
any business impact and in record C o s t O p t i m i z a t i o n a n d
time. Apart from this, I played a Performance Management.
pivotal role in implementing
privileged access management Budget Development and
a n d p r i v i l e g e d i d e n t i t y Conflict resolution. Given that endpoints and user
m a n a g e m e n t a c r o s s 3 0 0 + Top 3 technologies in 2021 systems are more vulnerable to
applications, eight lines of cyber-attacks, it simply means
business, and more than 17000 Artificial intelligence & Machine that educating the end-users
employees. L e a r n i n g , R o b o t i c P r o c e s s through security awareness
Automation (RPA), and Edge training is not sufficient to control
Challenges Encountered Computing. the threats. Hence, we decided to
There is always some amount of
pressure in terms of cost from the IT Project With Sophos implement 24x7 SOC along with
finance department. W e h a v e i m p l e m e n t e d t h e EDR for server farms as well as for
SOPHOS EDR solution at end-user end user's systems where the
systems (Laptops & desktops). likelihood of compromises is more.

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