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Maestro Kieran Upadrasta Is Celebratin 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. Mr Upadrasta was the lead author of a prize-winning
research paper, widely published in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and Cyber Security. Having published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and presented or lectured research papers at
nearly 100 national and international meetings, Mr Upadrasta is strongly
invested in the pioneering research which will bring new hope to next
generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Security. 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 |