019 FIT4PRIVACY Podcast 🎙️ with Ramkumar Ramachandran (Full Episode) - Privacy is here to stay

In this episode of The FIT4PRIVACY episode, Punit Bhatia has a conversation with Ramkumar Ramachandran. The conversation highlights include:

Privacy is the freedom for individual to do what they want to do.
Go with the flow of business and ask yourself of what data you hold.
Customers do not like GDPR controls.
The abuse of individuals data has to come down at some time.
Data privacy bill in India will bring in a lot of discipline.
Data privacy is a good thing that is happening.

Ramkumar ‘Ram’ Ramachandran is a veteran in the IT industry with global service delivery experience across 10+ countries, which includes US, UK, France, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi, Srilanka, Bhutan etc. He is a IIM-Calcutta Alumni and a qualified PMP, CISA , CSQA and CDPSE. He is also a Lead Auditor for QMS, ISMS, BCMS and ITSM.
He is a certified Systems Thinker from MIT Sloan Institute of Management. He provides services in the areas of Information Security, Data Privacy, Agile, DevOps, CMMI and ISO standards. He also happens to be the past President of SPIN Chennai and currently on its Board.

He runs his own Consulting Firm ‘Ascentant Corporation’ which is primarily into IT consulting. Prior to starting his own Firm, he has worked with organizations like HCL, Polaris, KPMG and Renault-Nissan. He started his career as a Programmer and has been in various responsibilities in software delivery. He later moved into Software Quality and Security. He has taken many organizations into successful ISO and CMMI journeys.

He is an avid reader of books and boasts a great collection of fiction and non-fiction in physical and e-forms. He loves travelling and would like to visit places of heritage importance. He loves music and his Alexa helps him get the best.

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