Ashwin Pal

Ashwin Pal

Partner
RSM Australia

Ashwin is a Partner with RSM Australia and has over 27 years' experience in the cyber security industry in Asia Pacific. His current role of Partner Cyber Security encompasses leading a cyber security practice aimed at assisting clients to identify cyber exposure and risk, developing effective risk management strategies, implementing the necessary measures to safeguard operations, and acting decisively to counteract and recover from potential cyber-attacks. 

In his previous role, Ashwin was responsible for running the security business within the APAC region for Unisys. The focus of this role was the management of the service line and delivery capabilities across all lines of Cyber Security Services. This role was the CISO level representative and had responsibility for CISO advisory for key clients, leading sales engagements to C level executives within the region, providing project based quality assurance, providing input into new product development, client, P&L and staff management.

When the playbook burns: AI accelerated incidents and the response gap killing Australian organisations

Ashwin Pal & Kaustubh Vazalwar
2026-10-16 12:35 pm
2026-10-16 1:15 pm
Room 212/213

An AI-augmented ransomware attack made a rehearsed incident response plan irrelevant within 90 minutes, exposing gaps regulators now penalise.

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