Founder & Entrepreneur

Chhaya Shinde is the Founder of The Human Firewall; an IT industry initiative in Cybersecurity which is focused on helping cybersecurity professionals strengthen one of the most critical yet overlooked skills in the industry — clear, structured and confident communication.

With 17 years of extensive experience working across multiple cross-functional domains in the IT industry as Cybersecurity, Storage (Data Protection), Banking and Finance she has closely collaborated with teams in IT for quality product delivery and business stakeholders. This exposure helped her understand a key gap in the cybersecurity field: many technically strong professionals struggle to articulate complex security concepts clearly in interviews, meetings, and in leadership discussions.

Chhaya believes that Technology Protects Systems and People Protect Organizations. Through "The Human Firewall" her mission is to help cybersecurity professionals communicate technical expertise with business impact.

Even with the Cybersecurity Awareness programs her mission is to help the IT and Non-IT professionals make vigilant by covering phishing, social engineering, scams, and safe digital habits — without jargon including the real-world scam walkthroughs, phishing simulation debriefs and the role-based safe behaviour playbooks in this program.

Chhaya Shinde is also an active writer and blogger on her blogsite chhayashinde.blogspot.com where she has written many technical and non-technical articles which have influenced 45,000+ active readers.