Tevora Leadership

Anir Desai

Senior Manager, Strategic Services

PRIMARY ROLE

Anir is an experienced Information Security Manager. Guiding organizations of various sizes and industry verticals in maturing their cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and governance posture.

In his primary role as a Senior Manager at Tevora, he maintains focus on aligning client objectives and business goals with information security. His diverse experience has enabled him to create successful technology, risk management, privacy, vendor management, and governance management programs. Anir leads engagements, assesses client security controls, and presents data and metrics to client executives and board members. Over the course of 100+ consulting engagements, Anir has built key relationships within client environments to help bridge the gap between security, privacy, and compliance.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

After earning his undergraduate degree in Information Science and Criminology, Anir began his career serving his local police department as a Crime Analyst. He advised patrol commanders of notable criminal activity, trends discovered from his in-depth analysis and predictability model and evidence collected. His skill and passion for identifying vulnerabilities and risks eventually grew into the cybersecurity world. Anir’s passion and desire for cybersecurity and presentation of actionable results, has gained him the trust of many clients who look to him to help them be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to their security management programs.

Outside of being a trusted and influential advisor to his clients, Anir serves as a mentor to emerging graduates and pioneering as a role model for diversity and inclusion, he always makes it his mission to give back to his community.

EDUCATION: Bachelors, Information Science and Criminology

CERTIFICATIONS: CISM, ISO 27001, CCSK, AWS Security

COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORKS: NIST, ISO, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, PCI-DSS, CIS, GDPR, CCPA/ CPRA, FFIEC, FINRA