Rohit Srivastwa

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Rohit Srivastwa
Rohit Srivastwa

Rohit Srivastwa is founder of BharatVerse, a Metaverse being developed specifically for Bharat. With 20 years of experience and successful exits, he has been focusing on the domain of information security and now pivoted into web3. Now he is a “Certified Metaverse Expert” and also provides training as well as coaching to students as well as corporates in this domain
Rohit is a serial entrepreneur, recipient of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the domain of “Enterprise Security,” and a multifaceted professional with experience in Cyber Security, Enterprise Security, Secure Digital Transformation and Cyberwarfare. He is also actively involved in advising several Military agencies, Law Enforcement, Corporate, and Government bodies of different countries in these fields. He is a liaison member at FIRST.org which is a consortium of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) from across the globe liaising between CERTs of difference countries and companies in case of cyber-attack and adversary’s takedown

Rohit is a well-known Security Evangelist who started India’s first-ever hackers conference and community named “ClubHack” back in 2006. He has had a bunch of startups in the past, with the last one acquired by QuickHeal Technology Ltd in 2016.

A teacher at heart, Rohit has designed the entire MTech program in Information Security that is being currently offered by Pune University. He is also a visiting faculty at several A-grade institutions such as IITs, IIMs, Symbiosis, etc. Currently he is teaching web3.0, metaverse and related topics to corporates and students of various institutions.

He has authored a book on personal data security and privacy for techies as well as non techies. The book is named “My Data My Privacy My Choice” which is available at ecommerce platforms as well as via https://privacy.clinic. The same recently got translated into Russian as well.

Current Positions:

    Charter Member, TiE

He can be contacted on Twitter (@rohit11), email ([email protected]) or LinkedIn (@rohit11)