Dinesh Harikrishnan

Dinesh is Senior Vice President – Pre-Sales at Akku, where he plays a pivotal role as Product Owner for the Akku platform. Having been part of the product journey from its earliest stages, he has shaped its roadmap, overseen its development, and worked closely with clients to ensure successful implementations. His focus lies in consulting with organizations on their cloud transformation journeys, designing solutions that balance security, compliance, and usability. Over his career, Dinesh has grown through roles in development, consulting, customer success, and pre-sales, giving him a 360-degree view of technology delivery and client engagement. His work has spanned industries from manufacturing and automobiles to edtech, consistently delivering value through innovative solutions and lasting client partnerships.

Recent Posts

Your Offboarding Checklist Has a Gap. It’s Called SAP.

What is the most sensitive system in your organisation? Not the most technically complex. The one with the highest concentration…

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Audit-Ready Organisations Don’t Prepare for Audits. They’re Already Ready.

Here is a question worth asking your compliance team: how long would it take to produce the evidence package for…

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Access Layer Authentication Does Not Extend to Data Exfiltration Controls.

Your BYOD policy permits employees to access corporate applications from personal devices. The security team agreed to this because blocking…

1 week ago

Device Enrollment State and Device Application Inventory Are Two Different Datasets.

When did your MDM platform last produce a complete list of every application installed on every enrolled device? Not the…

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SSH Session Logging and Authentication Logging Are Not the Same Control.

A security incident investigation is three days in. A privileged user accessed a production database server on a Tuesday afternoon.…

1 week ago

Provisioned Access and Accessed Access Are Two Different Datasets.

A provisioning record captures a point-in-time entitlement decision: this user was granted access to this application on this date. It…

2 weeks ago