Panelist

Sekhara Gudipati

Mr. Sekhara Gudipati is a Managing Director in Crowe’s Financial Crime and Digital Security Consulting practice where he focuses on providing Cybersecurity and Risk Management services to financial services clients.

With over 22 years of blended experience in consulting and corporate world, Mr. Gudipati led multi-disciplinary project teams with an overall focus on helping organizations efficiently manage Information Technology and Information Security Risk with a clear alignment to business results. He currently leads several digital security engagements for Crowe’s clients.

Mr. Gudipati has led enterprise level programs in financial services organizations in diverse areas of information security and risk management engagements.  Mr. Gudipati has commendable expertise on industry standard frameworks such as NIST, ISO, FFIEC, CIS, NYDFS, SWIFT, CSA etc., vendor security risk management, application security, cloud security, threat modeling and key risk indicators framework. Mr. Gudipati has collaborated with cross functional teams, and stakeholders from all three lines of defenses, executive leadership and C level to communicate strategies, thought leadership and to drive organizational change initiatives.