About

Twenty years of building it. The same eyes now assuring it.

Defenaar Consulting was founded in 2024 as a principal-led practice: one senior practitioner accountable end to end, drawing on a specialist network only where a mandate demands it.

Rituraj C. Buddhisagar, Founder and Principal Consultant at Defenaar Consulting

Rituraj C. Buddhisagar

Founder & Principal Consultant

Mumbai, India · Global delivery

  • CISA
  • CCSK
  • ISO/IEC 27001 LA
  • ISO/IEC 42001 LA
  • ISO/IEC 27701 LA
  • ISO 22301 LA
  • ITIL

The practice

Two decades were spent inside the systems themselves — Linux estates, virtualisation platforms, cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines and security operations — before the work turned to governance. That sequence matters. Controls written by someone who has carried a pager read differently, and hold differently, than controls written from a template.

Defenaar advises regulated and fast-scaling organisations on information security, privacy, continuity and AI management systems, and on the cloud architecture underneath them. Engagements range from ISMS and PIMS implementations and risk assessments to internal audits, compliance reviews and corporate training programmes.

Every mandate is led personally by the principal. Where scale or a specialist domain calls for it, Defenaar collaborates with a trusted network of practitioners — but accountability never leaves one desk.

Defenaar acts strictly in an advisory capacity. Certification audits are conducted by your independent accredited certification body — never by us — so no engagement compromises auditor independence.

Compliance & auditing

ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 22301, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, DPDP Act, GDPR, HIPAA, UIDAI and SEBI CSCRF.

Cloud & technical security

AWS, Azure and OCI security, container and Kubernetes hardening, secure architecture, Linux, virtualisation and DevSecOps.

Programme & risk leadership

Security programme development, risk-based decision making, internal audits and technology risk management.

Training & enablement

Cloud security, GDPR, ISMS LA, PIMS LA and BCMS LA programmes for corporate and institutional audiences.

2024

Defenaar founded

20+

Years in security & infrastructure

7

Professional certifications

12

Advisory disciplines

Track record

Engineering, architecture, operations and assurance — in that order, across product, platform and enterprise environments.

  1. Cybersecurity Consultant & Founder

    Defenaar Consulting

    Aug 2024 – Mar 2025 · May 2026 – Present

  2. Senior GRC Consultant

    eProtect360 Solutions

    Apr 2025 – May 2026

  3. Staff Cybersecurity Architect

    Baker Hughes

    2023 – 2024

  4. Manager, Security Operations

    Qualys Security TechServices

    2020 – 2023

  5. VP, DevOps Engineering & CISO

    Vayana Network

    2017 – 2020

  6. Linux SME

    IBM India

    2015

  7. Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    VMware

    2011 – 2014

  8. Infrastructure Solution Engineer

    HP GlobalSoft

    2007 – 2011

  9. Linux SME

    Nevis Networks

    2003 – 2007

  10. Technical Trainer — Linux Administration, C++, Java

    AICT, Pune

    2001 – 2003

Education

  • Diploma in Advanced Computing — CDAC Pune, 2001
  • Bachelor of Engineering — WIT Solapur, 1998

Professional strengths

  • GRC and security architecture alignment
  • Risk-based decision making
  • Executive and technical stakeholder engagement
  • Security programme development
  • Corporate training and mentoring