Deepak Talwar is the National Security Officer with Microsoft India. He has close to 20 years of experience as a business leader and core technologist from heart working in the field of cyber security and specifically focused on cloud security. Deepak has been instrumental in transforming multiple clients & the partner community to migrate to safer cloud and worked across sectors like BFSI, government, public sector, telco- media and others covering Indian and global markets.

Before Microsoft, Deepak led EY, for their business development initiatives on cyber, data privacy, security operations, incident management services. He was also instrumental in setting up Symantec cloud business for 7 years and engaged in advance technologies , processes and adoption relevant to data security , identity , risk mitigation and build security strategies with industry thought leaders , government and CXO’s. His earlier stints have been into Trend Micro, Mcafee and cisco academies to work with various technologies and business roles and build mindshare to adopt security with confidence and trust.

He actively participates and contribute his time with education forums, cyber readiness and support regulatory and policy making bodies to share views and build enhanced security framework.

Deepak is also a distinguished trainer who had trained 100’s of engineers in his career to be cyber experts and even today he firmly believe and actively participate in building next generation to attain best of cyber knowledge and “be cyber ready”