Kaustubh Vazalwar

Kaustubh Vazalwar

Director
RSM Australia

Kaustubh is a senior resilience practitioner and executive who helps his clients enhance their ICT resilience by understanding the root causes of disruptions and developing strategic plans for improving data security, governance, and risk mitigation for critical systems.

Being a seasoned and certified resiliency professional with experience in strategic and technological aspects of business, he has worked with prestigious customers across the globe and in various industry verticals. In his current role as the Director with RSM Australia, Kaustubh works as an executive advisor and drives critical initiatives for the cyber security and privacy risk services division.

Kaustubh’s previous roles include Head of Technology – Enterprise Resilience at Tabcorp Holdings Ltd. and A/NZ Practice Leader – Resiliency Services at IBM Australia.

He is passionate about developing intellectual property material and has published multiple whitepapers and journal articles in the domain, as well as being a speaker at the prestigious AISA Cyber Conference in Melbourne and Canberra, Gartner Security & Risk Summit Australia and the BCM World Conference in London, amongst others.

Kaustubh was recognised as the Continuity and Resilience Consultant in the BCI India awards in 2015.

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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