About Us
We are a team of leaders and professionals with more than two decades of experience in Cybersecurity, Information technology, and education. Our passion and purpose, through Ortus, is to provide Cybersecurity services and help narrow the skills gap in Cybersecurity.
Our Cybersecurity programs are industry-driven. Our courses are interactive and taught in small cohort formats which enable our faculty to give personal attention to the individual needs of our students.
We offer Cybersecurity solutions and services to businesses to address their Cyber-risk exposure.
Our Team has over 25 years of combined experience in cybersecurity.
OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Prabhakar Kasu – Founder
Ex – Global Head of Cybersecurity Strategy & Architecture at Aon | CTO | CIO | Strategy | People & Organization | Architecture | Cloud | Digital Transformation | DevSecOps | P&L | Program Management | Client Engagement
Cybersecurity Strategy & Program Management:
– Experienced in assessing cybersecurity posture against MITRE Attack and Shield, identifying capability gaps, craft cybersecurity strategy to align with business and IT strategies, build capability roadmaps.
– Security expertise across the spectrum – IAM System, Network, Cloud, Data, Applications, Monitoring, and Incident Response
Prior to Aon Prabhakar was with Microsoft, GE, Accenture and Thomson Reuters in the Leadership roles. He is a passionate strategic executive with proven expertise in crafting strategies for growth, building cross-functional teams, forging partnerships, building relationships with clients and speaking at industry events. His focus has been on building and operating cloud environment for clients on a managed services model. Delivered security services and solutions to clients across Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Banking and Government verticals spanning risk assessments securing pipelines and SCADA systems, information security, threat intelligence, social intelligence, biometrics (face, voice), other security technologies.
Jyothsna Kasu – Co-Founder
Entrepreneur | Educationist | Author | Cybersecurity | Robotics| CEH | CTIA
Jyothsna is an author and has written two books on evolving technology “The Art of Being Invisible” and “Digital Disruption” which are on cybersecurity and emerging digital technologies. She also works with cybersecurity certifying agencies creating courses and conducting training programs. She brings experiences from AT&S Austria Technologies & Systemtechnik, [24]7.ai Inc, Ocwen Financial Corporation, GE Healthcare, where she helped build the organization. She is passionate about evolving technologies and their impact on businesses.
She consistently took on challenges across start-ups and large businesses in helping them build organizational processes and cultures that enable growth and excellence. With over 20 years of progressive, enriching experience across Consulting, IT/ITES, Manufacturing, and Electronics industry verticals. Strong commitment to data-driven decision-making. Highly creative problem-solver with a track record of developing innovative solutions.
Her experience in different verticals has helped her focus on deploying systems, improving operations, and transforming business processes. She is certified in Big Data Analytics (Hadoop ecosystem), Data Science, Robotics, Cyber Security, AI & Coding, and Various Analytics Platforms… She has CEH | Certified Ethical Hacker from EC-Council. |
Arthur “Pavan” Bezwada
Partner & Vice President, Business Development
Pavan Bezwada has years of experience in diverse sectors including Higher Education, International Trade, Business Development for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Pavan served in a leadership role at University of Maryland (UMBC & UMD) in critical Academic Operations. He managed the integrity of academic records and compliance with federal and state regulations. Pavan spearheaded several initiatives to build relationships with external partners, managed partnerships with IT vendors and coordinated implementation and upgrades of pivotal services for students. Prior to his work in academia, Pavan served as a Trade Specialist and consultant. He advised and guided US and Indian companies, planned and coordinated a wide range of trade activities.
In addition to being a member of the Advisory Committee of several organizations, Pavan served as the Commissioner on Maryland Governor’s Commission on South Asian American Affairs, as elected Member/Senator on The Council of University System Staff, University of Maryland System.