M.J. Vaidya is a Partner/Principal in the Advisory Services
practice of Ernst & Young (EY) LLP. He has over 20 years of
experience including holding CISO positions at Fortune 10 and
Fortune 200 companies. He also previously held leadership
positions at PwC, Deloitte, and Accenture. M.J. has provided
security and technology services in the Americas, Europe, and
Asia. His industry experience includes financial services, life
sciences & health care, manufacturing, entertainment & media,
hospitality, and public sector.

M.J. has been a speaker at multiple industry conferences
including SecureWorld, the National Cybersecurity Awareness
Launch, New York City Cyber Infrastructure Protection, ISACA,
NG Security Summit, and ISSA. He was recently selected as an
Aspen Institute Scholar and received the ATP Award for
Enterprise Innovation. M.J. holds a Mechanical Engineering
degree from New York University, MBA from St. John’s
University, Harvard Business School Publishing Online
Certification for Leadership, and retains multiple security /
technology certifications. He is currently an adjunct professor at
New York University where he teaches in the cyber security
Master's degree program.
In his role, M.J. advises clients on business driven cyber security
including security strategy, board level education, IT risk
management, security function transformation, governance,
cloud security, IoT / connected product security, and security
operations.