Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, March 2026 — Harish Kumar Soni has joined TransUnion CIBIL Limited as Deputy Vice President (DVP) – Cyber Security, marking a new step in his cyber security leadership journey within India’s financial services ecosystem.
In this role, Harish will support TransUnion CIBIL’s cyber security priorities spanning governance, risk management, security operations, and technology controls—strengthening resilience and protection across systems that enable credit information and risk decisioning for India’s lending and financial services sector.
Before joining TransUnion CIBIL, Harish spent over five years with Piramal Finance, where he progressed through senior security leadership responsibilities. Most recently, he served as Assistant Vice President – Information Security, leading enterprise rollouts of security platforms including SIEM, DLP, CSPM, EASM and vulnerability management tools, supporting compliance readiness through audits and gap assessments, directing cloud security reviews and third-party risk assessments, managing SOC operations via an MSSP, and driving cyber security awareness programs. He earlier served as Senior Manager – Information Security at Piramal Finance.
Prior to that, he worked with Inspira Enterprise India as SOC Manager/Lead, leading a 24×7 onsite SOC delivery team and supporting governance, KPI/KRI design, regulatory audit support, cyber drills, and the operational management of multiple security tools and platforms.
Earlier, Harish served with Central Bank of India as Manager – Information Security, where he supported regulatory compliance control frameworks, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing programs, ISMS and BCMS audits and migrations, incident management processes, policy reviews, awareness initiatives, and implementation of multiple advanced security tools.
He also held an earlier role as Assistant Manager at Corporation Bank, based in Mangaluru, Karnataka.
About TransUnion CIBIL Limited
TransUnion CIBIL is India’s pioneer and leader in Credit Information. Its content, insights, products and solutions help businesses manage risk, shape lending strategies, reduce costs, maximise portfolio profitability and improve customer loyalty, with a stated focus on being a trusted partner to the financial services sector.
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