Career profile
Hemant Chaskar
Chief Information Security Officer, Nile
- Current role, per sources checked 18 October 2026
- 28 January 2025
Hemant Chaskar is the Chief Information Security Officer of Nile, appointed in January 2025.
Career path
Chaskar holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He spent 15 years in technology development, product architecture, engineering, and technical evangelism focused on Wi-Fi access and security, as well as cloud-managed networking and network security for enterprise systems.
Over the following decade he held security leadership roles across the industry, including Chief Information Security Officer and vice president of technology at Mojo Networks, Principal Security Architect at Arista Networks, Head of Cloud Security at Aruba Networks and HPE, and Chief of Product and Platform Security at Exabeam.
In these positions he led initiatives spanning technical, operational, compliance, incident response, and business-enabling areas of information security.
Nile, which builds enterprise network solutions aimed at securing organizations from cyberattacks and automating operations, announced his appointment as CISO on January 28, 2025.
Remit at Nile
At Nile, Chaskar is responsible for the company's overall organizational security roadmap, security within Nile's cloud infrastructure and its Campus Network-as-a-Service solution, governance, compliance, and risk management.
He also works with customers on the development of network security features to meet evolving requirements, and helps steer the company's roadmap for its Campus Network-as-a-Service offering.
On taking the role, he said, "This role at Nile allows me to apply the full breadth and depth of my experience to solving the problem presented by traditional enterprise architectures and modern attacks like ransomware," Hemant Chaskar, Nile's new CISO .
Public commentary on Wi-Fi security
While serving as CISO and vice president of technology at Mojo Networks, Chaskar spoke publicly about the KRACK vulnerabilities affecting the WPA2 Wi-Fi protocol, noting that corporate enterprises, schools, retail outlets, and government agencies using WPA2-encrypted Wi-Fi networks were affected.
He explained that nine of the ten identified vulnerabilities required a relatively sophisticated attacker using a MAC-spoofing access point as a man-in-the-middle, while the remaining flaw could be exploited with a sniffer requiring less attacker sophistication.
