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Maya R Nair

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Senior Director - Chief Information Security Officer at Crisil
📍 Thane, Maharashtra, India

Maya R Nair is the Senior Director and Chief Information Security Officer at Crisil, with extensive experience across the Telecommunication, BFSI, and Manufacturing sectors. An alumna of BITS Pilani, she is an expert in datacenter infrastructure, defense-in-depth security strategies, and business continuity planning, holding certifications like CISA and DCPLA.

Outside of her professional role, Maya is a passionate follower of Arsenal Football Club. She demonstrates a keen interest in continuous learning and emerging technologies, recently dedicating a weekend to an AI Mastermind workshop to explore the future possibilities of artificial intelligence.

She has been recognized with multiple industry awards, including being named "Best CISO of the Year" in 2017.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Senior Director - Chief Information Security Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Thane, Maharashtra, India
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Information Security
As a CISO with a background in implementing defense-in-depth and 360-degree security views, she is a frequent speaker on this topic at industry conferences.
IT Infrastructure
Her experience includes setting up entire IT and datacenter infrastructures from scratch and executing large-scale datacenter migrations with zero downtime.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Senior Director - Chief Information Security Officer
Crisil
5-2020 - 4-2024
Director - Chief Information Security Officer
Crisil
10-2019 - 5-2020
Chief Information Security Officer and Head - IT Infra
A Fintech stratup by a leading indian bank
10-2018 - 10-2019
Chief Information Security Officer
Reliance Capital Limited
7-2016 - 10-2018
Head - Information Security
Idea Cellular Ltd
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Maya R Nair joins CRISIL as Director & CISO. Featured in CIO&Leader
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Maya Nair appointed as Director & Chief Information Security Officer at CRISIL Limited. Featured in Economic Times – CIO
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Education
2014 - 2016
Master’s Degree
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
2007 - 2011
PGDBA
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
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