India’s biopharmaceutical company, Biocon, has appointed Agnidipta Sarkar as Group CISO. Sarkar has moved on from CMS IT services where he has served his tenure of two years as Director Cybersecurity.
In this new role, Sarkar will be leading the cybersecurity and risk management domains at the biopharmaceutical company.
Sarkar has 3 decades of experience in the cybersecurity vertical. He has experience of working with global companies such as CMS IT services, DXC Technologies, HPE, HP Inc, and more.
As Director Cybersecurity at CMS IT services, Sarkar led the transformation of cybersecurity hygiene and a few new-age digital security projects. He also developed a range of cybersecurity practices addressing the latest challenges as the most reliable cybersecurity systems integrator in India.
As a cybersecurity expert, Sarkar has also authored and launched “Defensible Cybersecurity” as the new approach to cybersecurity based on ISO27001 and its family of standards, Lockheed Martin’s Cyber-Kill-Chain, NIST cybersecurity framework, and DOE C2M2.
Founded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon manufactures generic active pharmaceutical ingredients and serves customers in over 120 countries.
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