Ronak
Editor, Data Breaches and Incident Response
Ronak covers data breaches and incident response for paymentsecuritypros.com.
His guides explain what a payment business has to do when something goes wrong: incident reporting deadlines, breach notifications to regulators, card brands and customers, the first 24 hours of response, forensic investigations, and keeping payments running during an attack. He also writes about readiness, including insider threats, tabletop exercises and cyber insurance.
As a second reviewer on many guides, Ronak checks facts, dates and source links before an article is published.
Areas of expertise
- CERT-In incident reporting
- Breach notification
- PFI investigations
- Ransomware and insider threats
- Editorial fact-checking
Writes about
Reviews
Recent guides by Ronak
- CERT-In 6-Hour Incident Reporting: What Payment Businesses and Merchants Must Do (2026)
- The First 24 Hours After a Payment Data Breach: An Incident Response Playbook
- Building a Breach Notification Strategy That Meets Legal and Card Brand Deadlines
- Inside a PFI Investigation: What Happens After a Suspected Card Data Breach
- Ransomware and Payment Operations: Keeping Money Moving During an Attack
- Tabletop Exercises: Rehearsing Your Payment Breach Response Before It Counts
How we work
Every article on this site has a named author and a second reviewer, cites primary sources, and shows when it was last checked. Read our editorial policy or meet the rest of the team.
Contact: ronak@paymentsecuritypros.com