Author: Sameer Ahirrao

Sameer AhirraoSameer is founder and CEO of Ardent, Maryland based Data Privacy Company. He is an established security leader and Information Security Subject Matter Expert who brings two decades of security experience. Prior to founding Ardent, he led security engineering at Lockheed Martin (Now Leidos). In his early career, he held various roles in Symantec focusing on enterprise product portfolio. His role at Deloitte involved IT Audits and consulting in Enterprise Risk Services. He is an Electronics & Telecommunication Engineer and holds certifications and accolades in cybersecurity such as CISSP, CISA, CCSP. His current focus is Data Centric security approach and Data minimization helping enterprises reducing the cyber risk by reducing personal data footprint.

From the Fall 2019 Issue

Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) Under CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act): Challenges and Solutions

Author(s):

Sameer Ahirrao, Founder and CEO, Ardent Security

CCPA Header

Background Privacy laws are coming in effect worldwide and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the most comprehensive data protection law, came in effect in May 2018 in Europe. Here in the U.S., CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) will be a landmark law for protecting consumer data privacy. This act will go into effect in January … Read more

From the Spring 2019 Issue

Data Minimization: How It Can Save Your Enterprise if Breached

Author(s):

Sameer Ahirrao, Founder and CEO, Ardent Security

Data Minimization

Introduction: “We must pass laws that require data minimization, ensuring companies do not keep sensitive data that they no longer need,” U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Vice Chairman of Senate Intelligence committee stated recently after a data breach at Marriott’s Starwood subsidiary. Marriott initially indicated that 500 million customers’ data was exposed. After three weeks, … Read more