Technology Maestro
Kieran Upadrasta Is Celebrating His 26th Year Serving Different
Industries.
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: - • 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 |