Vinayak Godse is the CEO of Data Security Council of India. He has over 27 years of experience in Information Security, IT Transformation, Intelligent Networking and Telecom Infrastructure.

Vinayak also leads the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Cybersecurity Technology and Entrepreneurship, a joint initiative of DSCI and Ministry of Electronics & IT. NCoE is engaged in cybersecurity industry building, fostering security research and product engineering, and building an ecosystem for security entrepreneurship.

He has been deeply engaged with all initiatives of DSCI with government stakeholders and sectoral regulators. He was instrumental in developing DSCI Security Framework (DSF), DSCI Privacy Framework (DPF) and DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor (DCPLA), DSCI Certified Privacy Professional (DCPP) certifications and conducted many of these training programs.

Prior to DSCI, he worked with the Global Consulting Practice of TCS in Information Risk Management and also worked as a Telecom Engineer at BSNL. He started his career as a lecturer in Electronics Engineering.

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