Vivek Ponnada is an OT Security practitioner with global experience and currently works at Frenos as SVP of Growth & Strategy. Having started his career in ICS as an Instrumentation Technician, Vivek became a Controls Engineer and commissioned Gas Turbine Controls systems in Europe, Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia. Post MBA, Vivek held multiple roles including Sales, Marketing & Business Development and Services covering Control systems & Cybersecurity solutions for Critical Infrastructure industries (Power, Oil & Gas, Water, Mining etc.) at GE and XenonCyber and Nozomi Networks.
He is the co-lead for the Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices Project and his recent talks/contributions include DefCon ICS Village, ICS Cybersecurity Conference (Security Week), Industrial Security Conference in Copenhagen, and many others.
Vivek is a Chartered Engineer from I.E. India, MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and GICSP certification from GIAC. He is also a CS2AI fellow, member of ISA, ISACA and the Public Safety Canada ICS Security Symposium Advisory Committee.