Aditya Deshpande
Aditya Deshpande
Manager – Product Management
Druva Inc.
Aditya Deshpande is a Senior Product Manager at Druva, where he leads innovation in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Sensitive Data Governance, and Proactive Threat Hunting across cloud and SaaS workloads. With over 12 years of experience spanning data security and compliance technologies, Aditya has played a key role in shaping how enterprises discover, protect, and govern sensitive data at scale.. Prior to Druva, he served as Vice President of Product Management at Citi Bank in Belfast and Pune, driving regulatory compliance, surveillance, and eDiscovery initiatives across global markets. His experience uniquely bridges the worlds of finance, cybersecurity, and data protection, bringing a pragmatic view of how enterprises can operationalize security without slowing innovation.
Aditya is passionate about helping organizations shift from reactive controls to proactive data defense — and in his ATA-GTR session, he explores how testing teams can evolve to become guardians of data integrity in the age of AI and DSPM.
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In an era where data breaches make headlines and AI is reshaping how we handle information, traditional testing isn’t enough. Beyond Bugs: Testing Data Security in the Age of AI and DSPM explores how QA and testing professionals can move from validating functionality to validating trust. Join Aditya Deshpande, Senior Product Manager at Druva, as he demystifies Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)—a new frontier that ensures visibility, protection, and compliance for sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Learn how to design proactive security test cases, automate policy validation, and integrate DSPM into CI/CD pipelines. Through real-world breaches, AI-driven data classification, and hands-on testing approaches, this session will help you evolve your testing mindset from finding bugs to safeguarding data integrity—a skill that every modern tester must master in 2025 and beyond.