EXL
Senior Assistant Vice President- Application & Cloud Security
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About EXL
EXL Service Holdings, Inc. is a global analytics and digital solutions company based in New York, founded in 1999. With a workforce of over 60,000 professionals across various regions, including the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and South Africa, EXL specializes in helping enterprises transform their business models and drive growth through data, AI, and digital solutions. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including insurance, healthcare, banking, utilities, retail, and media. EXL offers services such as analytics, AI-driven tools, digital transformation, and operational support. Their solutions encompass predictive modeling, customer experience enhancement, process outsourcing, and specialized products for sectors like banking and supply chain management. With over 25 years of experience, EXL combines domain expertise with advanced technologies to deliver comprehensive solutions from strategy to execution.
Security at EXL
Compiled from public job postings, careers pages, and company materials. Data may not reflect current state — verify during interviews.
Security Philosophy
“EXL's stated AppSec mission includes a general call to 'For more information, please reach out to:'. Their approach to developer enablement is characterized by an 'end-to-end approach'. The company's risk philosophy involves 'risk analysis and threat modelling'. Stated pain points or goals include 'remediation and reporting' and the use of 'proprietary tools'. Public materials primarily describe EXL's external cybersecurity services and capabilities, lacking an explicit, current internal AppSec mission statement or developer-engagement language. Therefore, much of this information is not publicly available.”
Security Team
No public, verbatim statement describing EXL's internal AppSec organizational model or reporting line was found. Key public-facing leaders include Rahul Bhardwaj, listed as 'Head of Information Security, Americas', Jagmeet Singh, and Rohit Kumar Gupta. The team size estimate and active AppSec job postings are not publicly available. Common skill/tool patterns indicate the use of 'proprietary tools' for cyber risk assessment. Public leadership/contact names exist for EXL cybersecurity services, but no public org chart or published internal AppSec team size or reporting structure was found.
Key Initiatives
The status of a Security Champions Program is 'Information not publicly available'. Direct evidence of pre-commit, IDE, or CI/CD security actions ('Shift Left' in Practice) at EXL was not found. For Vulnerability Management, intake involves 'remediation and reporting', but no verbatim SLAs, MTTR targets, or ticketing ownership statements were found. Secure SDLC Artifacts include 'risk analysis and threat modelling' and an 'end-to-end approach'. Public EXL pages do not describe new, internal AppSec programs, tool rollouts, or policy changes within the last six months. EXL markets external application security services, but public materials do not disclose internal AppSec operational workflows.
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