Sony is a Partner, leading Cyber Security at KPMG in India. He has 30 years of consultancy and industry experience across cyber security. Sony has advised clients on cyber security strategy, risk management, transformation, and response. Sony has also reviewed Data Centers for the FS space in alignment to TIA-942, BICSI from an Architectural, Physical, Electrical, Mechanical and Logical viewpoints. He has been instrumental in driving the build of Data Center for Bank Negara at Cyberjaya.

He has advised over 200+ clients across industries and sectors on matters relating to cyber security, IT strategy, optimizing of security technologies and helped them realize the business benefits of secure and available technology. He has also led engagements involving large scale cyber security strategy, governance, and transformation and the now prevailing aspects of threat intelligence, OT security, automotive security, and red teams. His OT experiences spans across Airports, Power Grids, Oil/Gas and Energy companies.

Sony has been part of multiple due diligence and deal advisory engagements from an IT perspective across services, operations, SLA’s general controls in place, third party access. He has also helped review the technology stack, governance layers and compliance requirements.

With a background in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering; he holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore. He also holds several ISO based Certifications like 27001 for Information Protection, 22301 for Business Continuity and 20000 for IT Service Management. He is also a Postgraduate from the National Law School of India in Cyber Law and Forensics.

He has co-authored Thought Leaderships; with the prominent ones being on Quantum Cryptography and Connected Car Security

Prior to KPMG, he worked for Wipro Technologies and a security consulting company he had set up in the US and India.

In his past time, he holds keen interest in music, cooking and refurbishing old motorcycles.

• Executive MBA – Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore)
• Post Graduate Degree in Cyber Law and Computer Forensics from National Law School of India University
• Accreditations: Advanced Diploma in Networking; (CGIHT – Bangalore) , Cisco Certified Network Associate, ISO 27001 LA and ISO 22301 LA
• Professional Associations: ISA, ISACA
• Owner and Moderator of the Data Center Architects Group on LinkedIn (a 13K Global Member Group)
• Speaker on "Economic Considerations for a Green Data Center" at Datacentre Satellite & GreenTech Conference.