08Security Audits, Assurance & Business Continuity
09IT Governance & Business Process Re-engineering
10Board & Executive Advisory
05 — Entrepreneurship
ONE THESIS. THREE INSTRUMENTS.
Trust does not scale by hand. Each exists because a manual, subjective process needed to become a measurable one.
ShieldByte Infosec
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The firm.
A CERT-In empanelled cybersecurity and audit firm helping organisations move from reactive, checkbox security to proactive, measurable cyber resilience.
400+ clients across 20+ countries
Banking, financial services, healthcare, IT services, manufacturing
Sustained 25–30% year-over-year growth
A team with 150+ combined years of security expertise
An AI-powered third-party risk management platform automating vendor evaluation, due diligence and audit through a unified key-risk-indicator dashboard.
AI risk engine spanning multiple regulatory frameworks
SBOM risk correlation against real-world vulnerabilities
Automated vendor scoring and real-time KRI dashboards
Phishing simulation and email security — because the control that fails most often is the human one, and the only way to measure it is to test it.
Continuous phishing simulation programmes
Behavioural risk measurement, not annual training theatre
06 — Global Reach
TWENTY-PLUS COUNTRIES.
Regulatory regimes spanning GDPR (EU), the DPDP Act (India), HIPAA (US) and PCI DSS — advising boards across global geographies from a base in Mumbai.
01IndiaHeadquarters
02United StatesHIPAA · SOC 2
03United Arab EmiratesAdvisory
04SingaporeIMDA AI Governance
05AustraliaAssurance
06APACRegional programmes
07 — Impact
MEASURED IN OUTCOMES.
0Years of ExperienceAcross BFSI, healthcare, IT services, e-governance and emerging technology.
0ClientsServed through ShieldByte Infosec, a CERT-In empanelled audit firm.
0CountriesRegulatory regimes spanning GDPR, the DPDP Act, HIPAA and PCI DSS.
0Reduction in Manual Audit EffortThrough natural-language automation of audit evidence review and reporting.
08 — Author
OWN YOUR POWER.
Life hacks, mindset & success strategies for modern women.
“This is your life. Own it.”
A no-nonsense, heartfelt guide for modern women navigating careers, family and entrepreneurship. From boardrooms to bedrooms, playdates to pitch decks — a reminder that your power was never meant to be small. Written under the same philosophy she brings to the boardroom: plan, prioritise, protect your peace.
Founder. Leader. Mom. Human. Still figuring it out.
Selected Member & Co-AuthorCERT-In Working Group on National Cybersecurity-Audit Standards, Subgroup 03
Appointed by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. Co-authored the national “AI Security Auditing Guidelines” framework.
Co-Chair, Call for PresentationsCERT-In SAMVAAD
Invited by CERT-In to co-chair the Call-for-Presentation sessions at its annual national conference for empanelled cybersecurity-auditing organisations, Mahabalipuram — reviewing and curating submissions from across the sector.
Post Graduate Diploma — Data Protection Officer, University of Derby (UK) · Diploma in Cyber Law · Master’s Degree, Mumbai University · Bachelor’s Degree, Mumbai University
— Original Contributions & Innovations
WORK THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE.
01
Three-Layer Governance Framework for Auditing Agentic AI
An original audit framework — Agent Governance, Agent Behaviour Assurance and Operational Risk Control — producing a calculable Agentic Audit Composite Score (AACS). Published in the CERT-In SAMVAAD proceedings.
02
National AI Security Auditing Guidelines
Co-authored India’s national framework for secure, ethical and auditable artificial intelligence, issued under CERT-In, Government of India, and aligned to ISO/IEC 42001, ISO 23894, the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
Pioneered an AI-powered engine that automates third-party risk assessment across multiple regulatory frameworks, replacing manual, subjective due diligence with a scalable, objective model.
04
SBOM Risk Correlation Model
An advanced model correlating software bill-of-materials data with real-world vulnerabilities and compliance risk, enabling proactive third-party mitigation with far greater precision.
05
Natural-Language Audit Acceleration
Natural-language automation of audit evidence review and reporting — cutting manual audit effort by over 70% while improving accuracy and compliance coverage.
06
Cross-Domain AI Integration
Unified AI across phishing defence, compliance, vendor risk and governance into a single cyber-risk framework, adaptable across industries and regulatory geographies.
10 — Publications & Thought Leadership
Peer-reviewed · Sole author
Auditing Agentic AI Systems
A Three-Layer Governance Framework for Autonomous Intelligence
“As AI systems evolve from assisting humans to acting autonomously, assurance must evolve from validating outputs to assuring decision pathways.”
Published in the official proceedings of CERT-In SAMVAAD, the national cybersecurity-audit conference of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India — held at BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus. Maps an agentic-AI audit regime to ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, the Singapore IMDA Model AI Governance Framework, and India’s DPDP Act and CERT-In directions.
AI Security Auditing Guidelines: Framework for Secure, Ethical, and Auditable Artificial Intelligence in IndiaCERT-In Subgroup 03 · Government of India
Co-author. A national AI-security audit framework aligned with ISO/IEC 42001, ISO 23894, the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
Article
Mainframe Security in the Age of Emerging TechnologiesBharatCXO
On securing mainframe environments amid cloud, AI and third-party convergence.
Op-ed
India’s Cybersecurity CrossroadsBusiness Talkz Plus
Thought leadership on strengthening India’s digital future through cybersecurity leadership.
