Amith Krishnan

Principal security consultancy lead, AMEA

Amith helps large organisations throughout AMEA to shape their cyber strategy.

Since joining BT Security consulting in 2016, Amith has provided strategic guidance to large customers throughout AMEA, advising on company growth, risk management and the cyber threat landscape.

By building close working relationships at CISO and CIO level, he’s helped them to shape their cyber strategy and build robust business cases.

Amith has over 15 years’ experience in the APAC and MEA region with a proven history of delivering managed security services and enterprise IT in the following sectors: national security intelligence, telecommunications and banking.

Prior to joining us, Amith worked in security consulting and security engineering for the Telecommunication and National Security Agency in the UAE. He has a blend of both technical and management experience, supporting consulting delivery across legacy, hybrid cloud and IOT ecosystems.

Amith graduated with a degree in engineering in Information Technology, Electronics and Communications. Additionally, he is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), ISO 27001 lead auditor and holds other technical and process certifications.