EQS 8: Aug 2025 PDM – The Tools Helping Us Govern and Manage Our Enterprise
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August 9 @ 5:00 pm IST - 7:00 pm IST
FreeWelcome to our Enlightening quarterly series (EQS) #8.
This quarter’s theme is “The Tools Helping Us Govern and Manage Our Enterprise
Program Details
Date: Saturday, Aug 9, 2025 Mode: Virtual. CPE 2:00 Hours
Agenda
17:00 - 17:15: Virtual Networking 17:15 - 17:18: Welcome by ISACA Chennai Chapter Director Programs 17:20 – 17:30: Chapter Updates & Speaker Introduction 17:30 - 18:50: Data destruction/wiping plays a crucial role in Data Privacy Protection and various Regulatory Compliance by Sharad Srivastava , Founder & CEO, Certus Software India
Description
- Data Privacy Protection is becoming a very critical part of organizations functioning. Whether data is company data or customers data. While it is important to guard and protect data when in use (in life), however its equally important to properly dispose off ( securely erasure / wipe) any unwanted data or on end-of-life (decommissioned) IT assets.
- Data wiping/erasure is last phase of data lifecycle and when data reaches end-of-life (not needed) , it must be securely erased and erasure report/certificate must be kept for audit purpose. This process is also mandated by various industry regulatory authorities in India and worldwide
- Certus Software is one of the world’s leading providers of Certified Data Erasure Software. Without destroying the value of the asset, Certus software securely erase all storage devices (HDD, SSD, Flash) and mobile phones and produces temper-proof, digitally signed erasure report.
- Certus Software complies with IEEE 2883-2022, NIST 800-88 Rev 1 , HIPAA , ISO27001/2, DPDP & GDPR guidelines and accredited by the ADISA, NCSC, as well as Common Criteria EAL3+ (a Global Certification Organization – where India is also Authorized Certification Partner) ) to meet the highest security standard requirements for secure data erasure.
- Certus software also fulfil related compliance requirement of various Indian Regulatory bodies like IRDAI, SEBI, Cert-in, NCIIPC, RBI, PCI-DSS etc
Speaker Profile
Sharad Srivastava , Founder & CEO, Certus Software India
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- 35+ years of Data & Data Storage industry experience.
- Successful entrepreneur for last 15 years.
- Led country business for Global Data Storage companies like Seagate Technology & Western Digital. Established these brands & business in India and South Asia.
- He has been chairman of India chapter, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)- a global expert on DATA. Currently a board member of SNIA India.
- Certified DPO (Data Protection Officer)
- B. Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from NIT Kurukshetra and MBA (International Business & Marketing) from Oklahoma City University, USA.
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