CISOverse - April 2026

ASPM in Action: Application Security
in the Age of AI

This session brought together CISOs from leading enterprises in Chennai to discuss how AI is reshaping application security and increasing the complexity of managing risk. Through peer-led discussions, leaders explored challenges such as rising vulnerability volumes, reducing AppSec noise to meaningful business risk, and embedding security into fast-paced development workflows. The session highlighted the need for more continuous, contextual, and business-aligned application security in the age of AI.

CISOverse - April 2026

ASPM in Action: Application Security in the Age of AI

List of Attendees

Gokulavan Jayaraman

Infosec Leader- Mahindra Group

Satish Kannan Marimuthu

CISO Associate Director- Sensiple

Saravanakumar Krishnamurthy

CISO- Vivriti Capital

Vinod Senthil

Founder and Managing Director- digiALERT

Maharajan Suriyanarayanan

VP - IT Infrastructure &
CISO- Navitas Life Sciences

Gaurav Singh

CISO- Synergy Marine Group

Santhosh Srinivasan

Vice President - Information Security,
IT Infrastructure & Site IT- Celestica

Dhanasekaran Madaswamy

Cybersecurity Leader-
L&T Technology Services

Dr. Kannan Srinivasan

Cybersecurity Business Unit Head- Happiest Minds Technologies

Diptesh Saha

CISO & Practice Head-
SNS India Pvt Ltd

Dr. Chidhanandham Arunachalam

Chief Program Officer- Sumeru &
Co-founder - Boman.ai Cybersecurity

Shashank Dixit

Co-founder - Boman.ai Cybersecurity

CISO Speaks

After the event, we asked CISOs a few questions - here’s what they had to say.

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Vinod Senthil

Shares his perspective on ASPM as an evolution of traditional application security practices, highlighting its role in strengthening secure development, patching, and code-level protection. He also emphasizes the value of collaborative platforms like CISOverse in enabling knowledge sharing and practical security insights.

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Dhanasekaran Madaswamy

Explores the dual impact of AI on application security - AI for AppSec and AppSec for AI - highlighting how AI enhances visibility, identifies security gaps, and brings business context into risk management across applications.

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Dr.  Kannan Srinivasan

Describes ASPM as a critical enabler for gaining a comprehensive view across application layers, APIs, and vulnerabilities, helping organizations accelerate secure development while maintaining complete visibility and control.

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Gaurav Singh

Highlights how ASPM is evolving into a centralized decision-making layer, providing unified visibility across security tools and enabling CISOs, CTOs, and boards to prioritize risks and drive informed, executive-level decisions.

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Diptesh Saha  

Advises security leaders to focus on securing AI systems themselves, emphasizing the need for continuous risk quantification, board-level alignment, and embedding privacy-by-design principles when integrating AI into development.

CISOverse Playbook

This playbook captures key insights and practical takeaways from the CISOverse Chennai roundtable, shaped by real-world challenges shared by CISOs navigating application security in the age of AI. It is designed to help security teams manage increasing complexity without adding more tools or operational overhead.

The playbook focuses on how Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) can unify fragmented signals across code, pipelines, and AI-driven components- bringing clarity, context, and prioritization to rapidly growing risk surfaces.

Covering themes such as AI-driven AppSec, translating security signals into business-relevant risk, and enabling secure development at speed, the playbook offers practical guidance to reduce noise, improve decision-making, and align security with business and engineering priorities.

Access the full CISOverse ASPM Playbook