Kritika Bhardwaj

Kritika Bhardwaj

Superintendent Cyber Security Operations
Fortescue

Suprintendant Cyber Security Operations, Kritika Bhardwaj leads frontline cyber defence and incident response, overseeing the detection, management, and resolution of complex security incidents across enterprise environments. With deep expertise spanning both cyber operations and engineering, she has played a key role in designing and implementing security controls that strengthen organisational resilience.

Her work sits at the intersection of real-time incident response and long-term security engineering, giving her a unique perspective on how modern security operations function under pressure. As a practitioner, she has extensive experience driving automation and orchestration to scale detection and response capabilities while maintaining operational control.

Beyond technology, Kritika is a strong advocate for recognising the human dimension of cyber security. She is particularly focused on the impact of fatigue, stress, and cognitive load on incident responders, and how organisations must evolve to better support the people behind always-on security operations.

Machine-Speed security: Automation, risk, and the human limits of resilience

Kritika Bhardwaj
Breakout
Running Secure Operations
Automation, Orchestration and Operational Resilience

As automated detection and response now operate faster than human validation, resilience depends as much on managing analyst fatigue as on the technology.

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