Dr. N. Rajendran is Head-Network, Information security and Data Center at National Payments Corporation of India. and has over 18 years of experience in design, development and managing network, information security and IT infrastructure .Prior to current assignment at NPCI, he has worked as Deputy General Manager for Tata Communications (VSNL),Mumbai. Prior to that worked as Deputy General Manager (Head-INFINET) for Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad. He was one of the expert members of the working group for network and security standard for e-governance in India, Member of R&D project “Protocol and Security Framework for Mobile Payments,” Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India and various technical committees in the area of Payment Systems. He has obtained Ph.D.in computer science from Bharathidasan University. He has more than 25 research papers in International and National conferences.