NPCI beefs up infosec team with two senior appointments

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has added two senior members to its data and information security team, the company said in a release today.

Benjamin Ambrose has joined the Mumbai-based payments infrastructure major as its chief information security officer and Pravin Kumar as chief market information security officer.

Ambrose has spent over two decades across various domains of information and cyber security having worked at Amazon and Citibank. His role at NPCI will entail ascertaining and controlling risk, developing and maintaining robust security standards, enhancing defensive and offensive security capabilities, threat intelligence and next-generation security operations.


Kumar will primarily focus on strategising and managing infosec and privacy risk within NPCI and across its ecosystem players. He will be managing compliance with regulatory audits, security guidelines applicable to third parties and stakeholder engagement across organizational boundaries. Kumar was with Paytm before joining NPCI.

“At NPCI, we acknowledge the evolving security landscape and the technological advancements required to keep abreast with developments in the digital payments space. We are confident that they will play instrumental roles in enhancing NPCI's security posture and driving forward our mission to provide secure, seamless digital payment solutions for all,” said Vishwanath Krishnamurthy, chief risk officer, NPCI.