Pinkesh Shah, CISSP, CCSE, Chief Security Architect, NetIQ Corporation
As NetIQ’s Chief Security Architect, Pinkesh Shah is responsible for understanding the needs and challenges of NetIQ customers and architecting solutions to best meet their regulatory and risk management needs. Leveraging more than ten years of experience building enterprise security applications with a special focus on scalability, performance and distributed computing, Pinkesh works directly with customers, industry analysts, partners and others to develop implementation roadmaps for security management. He is an active speaker in the security community and represents NetIQ in several standard bodies like Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL).
Pinkesh most recently served as the Director of Security solutions for Research and Development at NetIQ and led a security research team, VITAL at PentaSafe Technologies prior to its acquisition by NetIQ in 2002. Prior to NetIQ, Pinkesh led several engineering projects at ISS focused on managed security services, threat management and vulnerability remediation. He later formed his own company based out of Boston called Captivo – a secure collaborative Internet platform. Pinkesh has architected several enterprise scale software solutions in the area of security infrastructure, intrusion detection, computer forensics and cryptography at several companies including AT&T labs, Captivo and Pyramid Digital Solutions.
Pinkesh is CISSP and CCSE certified and is a U.P.E. nominee at Purdue University in Indiana where he earned his master’s degree in computer science with specialization in information security at the CERIAS lab.