Harsha Banavara is Cybersecurity Technical Policy Manager at Signify (previously Philips Lighting). He leads a global project on cybersecurity and privacy within Standards and Regulations and is responsible for supporting global product security and privacy initiatives.

Harsha has presented at multiple cybersecurity conferences across the globe. He is one of the primary authors of “Industrial Internet Security Framework” Technical Report published by Industrial Internet Consortium in Sep 2016 and “Security in Supply Chain Integrity Guideline” published by NEMA in June 2015.

Mr. Banavara is a member of NEMA IoT Council, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). He represents the Netherlands delegation at CENCENELEC JTC13 WG5 (Data Protection, Privacy and Identity Management) and designated as US Expert for IEC TC 65 WG10 (Security for industrial process measurement and control - Network and system security).

Mr. Banavara has a master’s degree in software engineering, with a minor in Information Assurance from Auburn University.