Bharat Thakrar / Head of the Cyber Security at Peak Cyber Institute

Bharat is an experienced security professional and has held roles of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO and BISO), security advisor/advocate, security consultant and project/product manager. He brings expertise on cyber security/business risk, strategy, security/maturity assessments, incident/breach response, operations, security controls and processes, as well as security education, security awareness, culture and in skills/career development.

He has over 15 years’ experience in multinational/regulated environments as well as SMEs - leading on designing, implementing and managing end to end cyber security risk and information assurance projects - involving implementing security policies and procedures, security controls, incident response plans, business continuity and crisis management programmes. He has developed and implemented specific frameworks to engage and get buy-in from non-technical decision-makers.