Deepak Gupta Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

In the role of Infosec Manager, I am involved in the day-to-day management of cybersecurity solutions and operations involves a range of critical duties to ensure robust protection of the organization's digital assets. This includes identifying, investigating, and resolving security breaches promptly to mitigate any potential damage. I am working closely with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to develop and maintain comprehensive policies, standards, and procedures in compliance with ISO 27001, ensuring that all security practices are up-to-date and effective. Additionally, fostering a culture of security awareness is essential, achieved through targeted campaigns and training programs that educate employees on best practices and emerging threats. Providing dedicated security support to key customer projects is also a priority in my current role, ensuring that standardized security measures are consistently applied across all engagements to maintain a high level of protection and trust.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Joined Tait communications in September 2021. Involved in assisting organisation for ISO 27K compliance in product development and engineering. Key responsibility were:• Security Review of Application/Products prior to release and in production.• Security review of cloud deployments for Tait Products.• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with product/application development and deployment and maintenance of Risk Register. • Product security specialist for the Police Security Network (PSN) project.• Vendor/ Partner Product Security evaluation.• Respond to Info Security requirements in Client RFI and RFP as per NZISM or country-specific regulations. • Audit the Info Security framework and recommend security solutions.• Creating policies, standards and guidelines per ISO27001, NIST CSF or country-specific regulations.• Phishing campaigns and training.Achievements : • Delivered ISO27001 Certification for Engineering and Development from scratch.• Formulation of Minimum Baseline Security Standards & Risk Assessment Criteria for Tait products• Formulation of Cloud deployment security standard for Tait products• Formulation of Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Tait products

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Worked as Data Scientist in an NZ agriculture research company AbacusBio and built statistical summaries on complex & large Beehive datasets. The dataset was a time-series dataset that consists of millions of sensor data points. The main deliverables are to develop intelligence and build statistical models, summaries, and machine learning models to benefit beekeepers and farmers. The project was implemented in Python and R.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Built insights and analytics for COPD patient dataset. The project is being implemented in SAS, R, and Power BI. The main aim of the project was to align medication regimes to international standards and lessen the hospital load.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

• The master thesis involved collecting and integrating NZ stroke patient data from different data warehouses, cleaning and transforming the data and finally analyzing the data.• Machine Learning and Regression models were built for the classification of patients and feature extraction.• The project was implemented in Python, SQL, R and Power BI.• Paper on the thesis has been published in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Provided advisory and consultation services regarding technology security and risk for ISMS (ISO 27001) implementation and compliance through comprehensive audits and risk assessments. Actively involved in various application reviews, configuration management, NW vulnerability assessment, NW security assessments, and formulating enterprise security documents.

New Delhi Area, India

Prime responsibilities were policy formulation, security infrastructure enhancement, and skill development in the areas of Data Analytics/ Artificial Intelligence and Info Security. Lead for the integrated threat management system and various data analytics projects. Development of efficient strategies for management utilizing research reports and delivering end-to-end solutions. Manging data analytics in info security domains. Setting up of Data Management Office for organisation

India

• Responsible for day-to-day operations of mission-critical ICT infrastructure and security operations.• Ensured effective Information Security as per Cyber Security policies aligned with ISO 27001 and NIST CSF.• Effectively managed operations of Networks Security Operation Centers (NSOC) including operations of SIEM, IPS, firewalls, DLP, IAM solutions.• Vulnerability analysis of web applications.• Trusted advisor to the senior management on all IT security aspects• Carried out resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking, risk management & mentoring• Analysed various logs and statistics to identify threat patterns and mitigate risk• Successfully carried out perspective planning for adopting futuristic technologies and ensured monitoring and methodological processing of a wide range of IT security projects for implementing the organization’s ICT network and Information Security Programs• Established central security monitoring capability for securing the organization’s IT infrastructure• Efficiently managed operations and configuration management of a large ICT complex having a Tier-3 Data Centre, RA for PKI infrastructure, WAN Node (routers and switches), NSOC, Call Centre, Customer Helpdesk, and associated ecosystem thereby ensuring effective incident response and high availability

• Ensuring ISMS compliance as per ISO27001• Security monitoring of logs, reporting of anomalies, and mitigating threats and risks.• Management of Access Control policies.• Managed operations Tier-3 Data Centre including Information Security Management, Change Management, Incident Management and System Administration. • Executed the first of its kind enterprise-wide IT infrastructure solution (WAN Project) leading to business process evolution from legacy to routed and IP enabled server-client platforms. Ensured timely rollout of the project across geographies.• Involved in deployment of highly available platforms e.g., HP mainframe servers in load-balanced and clustered configurations, CISCO routers, Tandberg storage, and Trend Micro security solutions.

Tutor in Tertiary Army Engineering Institute providing ICT infrastructure training to graduate and post-graduate student officers

Team leader for ICT Operations, UN Mission in Sudan. Collaborated with multinational teams for provisioning & maintenance of ICT infrastructure

- Executed the first of its kind Enterprise wide IT infrastructure solution (WANProject) leading to business process evolution from legacy to routed and IP enabled server-clientplatforms. Ensured timely roll-out of the Project across geographies.-Involved in deployment of highly available platforms e.g. HP mainframe servers in loadbalanced and clustered configurations, CISCO, Tandberg storage, IP sec implementations.

Master'S Degree, Data Science, A

Master of Business Data Science, Otago University 180 credit course involving papers like Adaptive Business Intelligence, Statistical.

Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Technology (Modeling & Simulation), Mathematical Modelling And Simulation, Cgpa 9.1

Degree In Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering