Rupesh Kumar (Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)

Rupesh Kumar is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Lepide and has been involved in the development and strategic direction of the company since its foundation in 2005.

With extensive experience across enterprise IT and cybersecurity, Rupesh has played an important role in the evolution of Lepide’s technology and its approach to protecting sensitive data. His experience spans data security, identity and access, auditing, permissions and the broader architecture organisations need to understand and reduce security risk.

Today, Rupesh focuses on the strategic evolution of data security and the increasing convergence between identity, access and data protection. He is particularly interested in how organisations can move from infrastructure-centric security towards security models built around understanding sensitive data, who can access it and how it is being used.

Rupesh writes about data security architecture, identity and data convergence, security platform strategy, access governance and the future of enterprise data protection.

Primary areas of expertise: Data security architecture, security strategy, identity and data convergence, access governance, auditing, enterprise security platforms.