Hello and welcome to Get It Started, Get It Done, the Banyan Security Podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Prabhath Karanth (aka PK), Global Head of Security and Trust at Navan. We hope you enjoy this discussion between Adobe alums about the state of security as an industry, as a career, and more.  Prabhath Karanth (PK) is the Global Head of Security & Trust at Navan where his organization's core mission is to ensure Navan meets its security & privacy obligations to its customers, investors, regulators, and employees. He overseas Product & Platform Security, Detection & Response, Enterprise Security, Security Architecture & Engineering, Governance, Risk & Compliance and the Trust function at Navan.    

About Prabhath Karanth
PK is Senior technology leader with 17+ years of leading global, cross-functional teams across hyper-growth startups, fortune 100 and big 4 consulting firms. Prior to Navan, PK served as a security leader in Adobe for 9+ years where he drove several initiatives to level up security & privacy as Adobe reinvented itself in the cloud and grew from $30B to $300B business. Prior to Adobe, PK was with PwC, advising fortune 100 companies on information security & privacy strategy, governance, operations & technologies. PK is active in the security community and is part of several advisory boards where he advises venture firms and startup CEO’s on product & business strategy, market positioning and to solve security and business problems at scale. PK also mentors several professionals and presents in national and international conferences on thought leadership topics. His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in electronics & communications engineering and holds CISA, CISSP, CIPT, CDPSE, ISO 27001 Lead Implementor & PCI ISA certifications.