KIERAN UPADRASTA
CISSP, CISM, CRISC
Kieran Upadrasta,
CISSP is the CISO, and the founder, Director of Cyber Artificial Intelligence
Systems. He is a cyber security architect, Information security consultant,
InfoSec Researcher. He is a CISSP, CISM, CRISC qualified. Cyber Defence
taskforce member. Upadrasta was also a former engineer in the Air Force
Information Warfare Unit, Policy Advisor, Expert Witness. University Gold
Medallist. Mr. Upadrasta has over
26 years’ experience of business analysis, consulting, technical security
strategy, architecture, governance, security analysis, threat assessments and
risk management. 26 years’
Cyber Security experience with big 4 consulting firms. 20 years worked in
Financial and Banking industry. He has worked with the largest corporations
to become compliant with OCC, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO27001, NIST, PCI and
SAS70. Mr. Upadrasta has
consulted for several Fortune 500 companies., including Banking, Financial,
Insurance, defence and aerospace clients. His competencies range from setting
up risk management programs and developing enterprise network security
architectures to constructing enterprise-wide security programs that connects
computer security and business needs in a synergistic manner. Expert in Business Continuity planning (BCP) and Management,
Resilience, Disaster recovery planning (DRP), Incident response, Crises
management, Critical and Major Incident Management (MiM), Stakeholder
engagement, mapping requirements and management. Specialised in the following areas: - |
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• Governance, IT
Auditing - Policy, Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Investigations, forensics,
COBIT, Archer eGRC, PCIDSS, GDPR, Data protection, SOX • Policy,
Standards, Framework, Audits – ISO27001, SAS 70, NIST, COBIT, Smart city Reviews, BCP, DRP, HIPAA,
PCIDSS, SOC2 • Risk management
-SARA, SPRINT, IRAM • Threat management
- Arbor SP Peakflow, Forefront TMS, DDOS mitigations, Akamai Kona defender,
Siteshield, Threat modelling, Threat hunting, Intel • Vulnerabilities
management -Qualys, Tenable Nessus, Foundstone • Strategic
Planning, Security architecture - HLD & LLD creation, Enterprise
architecture – SABSA, TOGAF •
Identity and Access
Management IAM- AD, Azure AD, Okta •
Privileged Access
Management (PAM): CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Thycotic, Centrify, Lieberman,
Broadcom Symantec CA PAM, SailPoint IGA • Data loss and
fraud prevention - Symantec DLP, Advanced Persistent Threat APT, User
Behavior Analytics UBA • Cybersecurity
Platforms: CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, M365 Defender,
Falcon Sensors, McAfee, Symantec, Carbon Black, Fortinet, FireEye, Cylance,
MITRE ATT&CK Framework, Endpoint & Cloud Protection, Detection, And
Response (EDR), Falcon X, Breach Prevention, Vulnerability Management, Threat
Hunting, Zero Trust, Container Security, NGAV, Device Control, Firewall
Management, Artificial Intelligence, Automation • Cloud platforms
-AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Cloud technologies • Automation -
Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker,Terraform, Jenkins, Python •Management –
Projects, Engineering and Security operations • SIEM : Arcsight ESM, Qradar, Splunk, LogRhythm, RSA Security
Analytics, Envision • Firewalls, IDS, IPS - Checkpoint, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper, ISS,
Snort, Sourcefire, Web Application Firewall WAF • Encryptions, Vpns, IPsec, PKI, Endpoints - Safe boot, Pointsec,
CrowdStrike • Proxies, Content filtering - Bluecoat, Zscaler, Finjan, Ironport • Agile, Prince2,
DevOps, DevSecOps • Past work
experience with quite few international security agencies. • Past work
experience with Financial Conduct Authority FCA, Prudential Regulation
Authority PRA Qualified: CISM,
CRISC, CISSP, CCSE, CCSP, CCNA Security, JNCIS-FWV, MBA and BEng |