India’s safest cryptocurrency exchange platform, CoinDCX has announced the appointment of Divakar Prayaga as senior vice president (VP) and head of information security.

In his new role, Prayaga will be responsible for building, scaling, and sustaining CoinDCXs security systems.

Prayaga will also steer CoinDCX’s information security strategies and governance processes and spearhead an inclusive and comprehensive data protection programme to support development, research, and administrative information systems and technology, Economic Times reported.

At the same time, Prayaga will chair the information security advisory committee and lead the information security liaisons, championing information security within the crypto and blockchain industry.

Prior to CoinDCX, Prayaga was head of cyber defence at Flipkart. He also served as VP of cybersecurity at Wells Fargo.

Prayaga has an extensive career building and scaling information security and cybersecurity protection for companies like Wipro, Unisys, and IBM.

Commenting on the appointment, Divakar said, “With crypto being at the forefront of the future of finance, I am thrilled to step into an existing sector to enhance CoinDCX’s security posture and contribute to the industry’s developing information security landscape,”