Kishor Vaswani - Director and Head of Middle East Operations, ControlCase

Erik Winkler - Director and VP Professional Services, ControlCase

Rohit Tripathy - Director and VP PCI Line of Business, ControlCase

(Further speakers will be announced soon)

Kishor Vaswani - Director and Head of Middle East Operations, ControlCase

Kishor Vaswani is an approved Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and is responsible for Middle East operations within ControlCase. He brings extensive experience across a broad range of security, privacy and regulatory issues. Formerly with Ernst & Young LLP, Kishor led numerous projects for Fortune clients spanning across regulatory policies, security reviews and assessment of onshore and offshore vendors. He has served as an advisory member on a Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has been invited as part of a US trade mission to the Middle East. He has been a speaker on multiple occasions, including the MIS Conference and ISACA.

Kishor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. In addition to QSA, he holds the CISSP and CISA certifications.

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Erik Winkler - Director and VP Professional Services, ControlCase

Erik leads the Professional Services group at ControlCase and is an approved Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) with over 15 years of management and engineering experience, including 10 years experience with information security. Prior to leading ControlCase’s professional services group in the U.S. and managing their PCI audit services offering he was a Principal at Cybertrust, Inc. responsible for delivery and oversight of all vulnerability management services. He also spent 5 years as a manager in Ernst & Young’s information security practice and specialized in performing information security risk assessments and security policy reviews for international banks, manufacturing companies and government organizations.

Erik holds an M.S. in Engineering Physics and a B.S. in Physics.

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Rohit Tripathy - Director and VP PCI Line of Business, ControlCase

Rohit Tripathy is an approved Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for PCI as well as VISA PABP (Payment Applications Best Practices). He was among the first QSA’s under revamped PCI DSS program in Asia-Pacific, and has been a key member of the ControlCase team responsible for conceptualizing, designing, launching, and executing ControlCase’s unique managed services based productized PCI offering. Rohit has been associated with growth of PCI DSS 1.1 since its inception, and has experience of multiple PCI DSS engagements. Rohit brings insights in carrying out efficient implementation of PCI DSS standards, getting the approach right, tips on how to avoid common pitfalls in PCI engagements, and ideas on how to ensure continuity of controls implemented.

Rohit, a CISSP was previously working with Ernst & Young, India. He is a MBA from NITIE Mumbai, and Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) from PVPIT, Sangli, India.

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