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Raj Sawhney

Raj Sawhney

Lecturer
Information Systems

Shared Lecturer Suite: SB1 3232

ksawhney@uci.edu  

Education

MBA, UC Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business
MS, Computer Science, UC Irvine, Donald Bren School of Computer Sciences

Research Interest

AI Risk Management, utilizing the NIST RMF

Cybersecurity and Risk Management

Collaboration between IT Audit and Cybersecurity


Raj Sawhney is a Managing Director in CDW’s IT Audit and Cybersecurity Advisory practice providing a variety of solutions within the Program Strategy and Risk Advisory practice. Raj has led Internal Audit, IT Audit and Cybersecurity engagements for large multi-national corporations utilizing a variety of industry best practices and domain specific guidance. Raj has Big-4 experience with KPMG and Deloitte Consulting, and his international audit experience spans Germany, China, Singapore and India. Raj also brings a tremendous breadth and depth of IT Audit and Cybersecurity experience, including Cloud Based and On-Prem ERP applications, NIST based Cybersecurity Reviews, BCP DR assessments, Business Process audits and core Technology Integration experience. Raj has guided management in the remediation of significant financial reporting and Cybersecurity issues, including development of impactful audit reports, SOX compliance and advisory engagements. Raj is a regular speaker at audit & Cybersecurity conferences, a noted author for ISACA and completed his Masters in Computer Science and his M.B.A in Finance from UC Irvine. Raj also holds a CISA (Information Systems), CRISC (Risk and Controls), CIST (Information Security), CDPSE (Data Privacy), CCSK (Cloud security), CFE (Financial Fraud), and has been a Certified Cybersecurity Auditor for many years.