Black Hat India CISO Circle Series:Ep.2-Breaking Security Silos with Praveen Parihar, CISO, Razorpay

In this second episode of the Black Hat India CISO Circle podcast, host Ayush sits down with Black Hat India 2026 Summit Speaker Praveen Parihar. Praveen is the CISO of Razorpay, a platform at the center of India's digital payments economy processing transactions for over five million businesses. Praveen has spent 14 years across cybersecurity and fraud risk management in fintech markets in India and Southeast Asia- a career that took him from security consulting across manufacturing, banking, and government, to founding "Hackoholic," a grassroots ethical-hacking community he started teaching in college back in 2010. In this episode, Praveen breaks down: • Why staying broad beats specializing early in your professional journey • How Razorpay separates and connects enterprise (merchant) and consumer security • Where operational silos actually get exploited and how to close that gap • Cross-institution fraud intelligence sharing and how the incoming DPDP Act enforcement changes the calculus • The scale of India's consumer fraud problem and why static, rule-based fraud detection is dying • The agentic threat era and why one-time pen tests are obsolete; the shift required toward continuous, autonomous red teaming • The CISO blind spot nobody's addressing • What it means for Black Hat to be finally landing in India Praveen's read on silos, agentic threats, and cross-institution fraud intelligence sharing is exactly the strategic, CISO-level conversation the Black Hat India 2026 Summits are built around. If this conversation resonated, the Summits are where it continues live. Learn more about the Black Hat India 2026 Summits: https://www.blackhat-india.com/summit... Register for Black Hat India 2026 Summits: https://registration.blackhat-india.c...