Anil Bhandari

Anil Bhandari

Chief Mentor

Arcon

Biography

Anil Bhandari is an inspired innovator, technologist, and thought leader in Information Risk Management.  He serves as a Mentor & Thought Leader and provides his invaluable insights for the future growth and development of ARCON. He mentors the product technology roadmap with his insightful knowledge in the areas of Risk Management, Internal Audits, and Regulatory Compliances.

 

Anil brings his expert domain knowledge in areas of Banking, Financial Services, and Telecommunication. He is also an internationally recognized Thought Leader in the subject of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC).

 

Thanks to his in-depth experience of assessing risks for data centers, networks, varied technology platforms, and core IT processes, Anil possesses intensive knowledge in the Information Security and GRC domains. The knowledge acquired over the years has helped him to consult large enterprises looking to implement cutting edge solutions in Cyber Security and the best practices for critical functions such as BCP/DR.

 

He has persistently contributed to several Associations and Forums and has been a part of various national and International Committees that focus on technology risk management and Internal Audit.

 

Having contributed as an honorary advisor to Regulators on matters pertaining to Risk and Compliance, Anil is now internationally regarded as an innovator, technologist and a thought leader in the Information Risk Management, Internal Audits, Regulatory Compliances, Frauds, Forensic, and IT/Cyber Security space. Now he also invests in high-growth technologies. As an investor and mentor, he works in tandem with an array of early-stage technology companies that focus on mitigating Information technology-related risks.

 

In his spare time, he particularly enjoys reading up on the Internet of Things (IoT).

 

He is also a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor besides academically inclined he also serves as an honorary advisor to several regulatory authorities on the matter of Enterprise Risk Management. Further, he has also contributed to several standards being on the Advanced Technology Committee of the IIA, Inc USA.

Speech Topic & Synopses
Digital Identity and Privacy: Stories from the Frontline

As the pace of digitalization gathers momentum, organizations are witnessing a dramatic increase in the number of digital identities. These identities interact with systems and applications relentlessly to perform day-to-day IT tasks. Nevertheless, maintaining the privacy of this data is a daunting task. Enterprise data is hosted in multi-tenant cloud, managed service providers and distributed data center environments. How an organization can maintain data privacy in this evolving IT access control use-cases depends on the level of preparedness to protect and monitor those digital identities. An identity and access management solution provides adequate safeguards to enforce IT practices necessary to maintain data privacy.

company overview

ARCON is a leading Information Technology company specialized in providing Risk Control (both risk predictive and preventive) solutions. ARCON believes in ceaseless technological innovations to mitigate the current and emerging IT security threats that can wreak havoc on organizations of all sizes, from various industries and from multiple geographies. These industries include BFSI, Telecom, Government, Healthcare, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Logistics, Hospitality, Entertainment, et al.

 

As the number of interconnected devices and IoT (Internet of Things) is increasing drastically, the overall digitization scenario is revolutionizing the world of technology. With this, the business operations are moving towards advanced automation where greater risks are emanating from threats that are now embedded within those technologies. In addition, various interfaces are vulnerable to malicious attacks.

 

In order to combat these complex and advanced risks, ARCON has developed its next-generation risk control solutions that can work seamlessly in any IT environment.

 

ARCON believes in the vision to PREDICT | PROTECT | PREVENT. ARCON nurtures a mission to create a stack of enterprise-class products that can provide a robust IT security risk control framework that can work not only at the device level but also across applications and business processes. Thanks to the R&D team, the company has already launched a set of products that have their individual functional objectives.

 

To further emphasize, during the era when the entire world is talking about the Zero Trust security framework, ARCON solutions help the IT administrators to set up a robust IT security architecture and stay resilient against sophisticated IT threats.

 

ARCON’s product portfolio:

 

  • ARCON | Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • ARCON | User Behaviour Analytics (UBA)
  • ARCON | Secure Compliance Management (SCM)
  • ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM)
  • ARCON | Privileged Access Management – SaaS