New Delhi: A widely circulated 2026 infographic highlighting 20 prominent cybersecurity influencers in India has brought together professionals from cybersecurity, digital banking, cyber law, ethical hacking, risk management, education and cybercrime investigation.
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Among the 20 personalities featured, Prof. Triveni Singh, Ex-IPS and former Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime, Uttar Pradesh, stands apart as the only career police officer on the list, bringing a distinctly law-enforcement and cybercrime-investigation perspective to a group otherwise dominated by industry experts, technologists, lawyers, educators and security leaders.
The 20 Cybersecurity Voices Featured
- 1. Prabh Nair — Cybersecurity Architect & Educator
Prabh Nair is an information-security professional, instructor and author whose experience covers security architecture, consulting and management. He has worked across banking, telecom, healthcare, retail, education and IT environments and holds an extensive range of security credentials, including CISSP specialisations, CCSP, CISM, CISA and CRISC. - 2. Praveen Singh — Cybersecurity Leader
Praveen Singh has developed a substantial professional audience around cybersecurity leadership, awareness and knowledge sharing. His public profile currently shows approximately 119,000 followers and describes him as one of India’s most-followed cybersecurity influencers, reflecting his considerable reach within the country’s professional cybersecurity community. - 3. Prasanna Lohar — Digital Banking & Technology Innovator
Prasanna Lohar is known within India’s banking and fintech ecosystem for his work and commentary around digital transformation, emerging technologies and cybersecurity. His contribution reflects the increasingly important convergence between banking technology, digital payments, innovation, cyber resilience and the security challenges created by rapidly evolving financial infrastructure. - 4. Prof. Triveni Singh, Ex-IPS — Cybercrime Investigator & Police Technology Leader
A former Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime, Uttar Pradesh, Prof. Triveni Singh represents the law-enforcement dimension of cybersecurity. His career has centred on cybercrime investigation, digital forensics, financial fraud and technology-enabled policing. He is the only career police officer among the 20 personalities featured in the infographic. - 5. Dr. Ram Kumar G — Cybersecurity & Risk Leader
Dr. Ram Kumar G is a Bengaluru-based cybersecurity and risk professional with more than two decades in the field. His public profile highlights cybersecurity, data privacy, corporate security and governance, and records recognition as a LinkedIn Top Cyber Security Voice. His current LinkedIn audience is around 50,000 followers. - 6. Adv. Dr. Prashant Mali — Cyber Law & Data Protection Expert
Advocate Dr. Prashant Mali is a practising Bombay High Court lawyer specialising in cybercrime, data protection, AI law and electronic evidence. His professional biography records more than 25 years across IT, cybersecurity and cyber law, combining technological knowledge with legal practice and public cyber-awareness work. - 7. Sunil Varkey — Enterprise Cybersecurity Leader
Sunil Varkey is an experienced cybersecurity professional associated with enterprise security leadership, cyber resilience, governance and security strategy. His presence on the list represents the senior corporate leadership segment of India’s cybersecurity ecosystem, where information security has increasingly evolved from a technical responsibility into an organisation-wide strategic and business-risk function. - 8. Vandana Verma — Application & AI Security Advocate
Vandana Verma is widely associated with application security, cybersecurity education and community building. Her work has included emerging areas of AI security alongside application-security awareness, reflecting the expanding attack surface created by generative and agentic AI and the growing requirement for security professionals to understand AI-specific vulnerabilities and governance. - 9. Dr. Shifa Cyclewala — Cybersecurity Trainer & Founder
Founder of Hacktify Cyber Security, Dr. Shifa Cyclewala works across security research, penetration testing and cybersecurity education. Her professional profile identifies expertise in application vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and reverse engineering, while her instructor biography records extensive training and cybersecurity-awareness activities across India. - 10. Vinayak Godse — Cybersecurity & Digital Trust Leader
Associated with the Data Security Council of India, Vinayak Godse contributes to conversations around cybersecurity, digital trust and emerging technology. His recent professional writing addresses enterprise AI and identity security in the age of AI agents, illustrating how cybersecurity is expanding beyond conventional network protection into broader digital-risk governance. - 11. Vishal Salvi — Enterprise Cybersecurity Executive
Vishal Salvi is a veteran cybersecurity executive whose career has included senior leadership responsibilities across enterprise information security and cybersecurity services. His work has addressed cybersecurity strategy, organisational resilience and the combination of people, processes and technology required to strengthen security across large and complex enterprises. - 12. Dr. Rakshit Tandon — Cyber Safety Evangelist
Dr. Rakshit Tandon is widely associated with cyber-safety education, responsible internet use and public awareness. Through training programmes, talks and engagement with institutions and law-enforcement communities, his work has helped translate complex cyber risks into practical safety guidance for students, educators, families and other sections of society. - 13. Sunny Vaghela — Ethical Hacker & Cybersecurity Entrepreneur
Sunny Vaghela is an ethical hacker, cybersecurity entrepreneur and founder associated with TechDefence. His professional profile records more than 14 years in IT and information security, while his work spans cybersecurity consulting, training, security research and cybercrime-related expertise. - 14. Ravinder Arora — Cybersecurity Professional
Ravinder Arora is featured among the cybersecurity voices highlighted in the infographic. His inclusion reflects the growing role of professionals who combine industry experience with online knowledge sharing, helping expand cybersecurity awareness beyond specialist security teams and encouraging organisations and individuals to understand the rapidly changing digital-threat environment. - 15. Santosh Nandakumar — Cybersecurity Voice
Santosh Nandakumar features among the professionals highlighted for their presence within India’s cybersecurity community. The list illustrates how professional platforms have become important channels for sharing security insights, emerging threats, practical experiences and awareness, enabling cybersecurity practitioners to reach audiences well beyond traditional conferences and specialist technology forums. - 16. Amit Jajoo — Cybersecurity Professional
Amit Jajoo is among the professionals identified in the infographic for their cybersecurity presence and knowledge sharing. His inclusion further illustrates the diversity of India’s cyber ecosystem, in which practitioners, consultants, researchers and industry professionals increasingly contribute to collective cyber awareness through professional networks and digital communities. - 17. Satish Kumar Dwibhashi — GRC & Information-Security Leader
Satish Kumar Dwibhashi is associated with cybersecurity governance, technology risk, privacy, compliance and information-security auditing. His professional credentials and activities reflect the increasingly important role of Governance, Risk and Compliance professionals as organisations navigate cybersecurity frameworks, privacy obligations, regulatory expectations and increasingly complex technology-risk environments. - 18. Ratan Jyoti — Cyber, Technology Risk & Privacy Executive
Ratan Jyoti is an enterprise cyber, technology-risk and privacy-governance executive. His recent writings cover cybersecurity, operational resilience, AI-related risk and digital trust. His public professional profile currently shows approximately 29,000 followers, reinforcing his visibility within India’s cybersecurity and financial-sector risk community. - 19. Dr. Aditya Khullar — Cybersecurity Professional
Dr. Aditya Khullar is featured among the professionals contributing to India’s cybersecurity conversation. His inclusion alongside experts from technology, corporate security, law, risk management, education and law enforcement underlines how cybersecurity has evolved into a multidisciplinary field requiring cooperation between specialists with significantly different professional backgrounds. - 20. Bishakha Jain — Cybersecurity Professional
Bishakha Jain completes the group of 20 personalities highlighted in the infographic. Her inclusion also reflects the increasing visibility of women professionals within India’s cybersecurity ecosystem, where practitioners, educators and community leaders are playing an important role in strengthening cyber awareness and encouraging greater participation in information-security careers.
Prof. Triveni Singh Brings the Police and Investigation Perspective
What makes Prof. Triveni Singh’s inclusion particularly distinctive is his policing background. While the list brings together specialists from enterprise cybersecurity, banking, cyber law, ethical hacking, education, privacy, GRC and technology risk, Singh represents the operational world of cybercrime investigation and law enforcement.
His experience dealing with cyber fraud, digital evidence, financial crime and technology-enabled investigation brings a perspective substantially different from conventional corporate cybersecurity.
The recognition also illustrates a broader transformation taking place in policing. Cybercrime is no longer a specialist technological issue sitting on the margins of conventional crime; digital evidence, online financial fraud, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, social engineering and organised cybercrime are increasingly becoming integral to modern criminal investigation.
In that context, the presence of a former cybercrime police chief alongside some of India’s prominent cybersecurity practitioners highlights the growing need for collaboration between police, industry, academia, cybersecurity professionals and technology innovators.
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