Mayank Thakar Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As Global Information Security Officer (GISO) in senior executive role am responsible for:Cybersecurity Leadership: Developing and leading cybersecurity strategy and culture.Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks.Security Policy & Compliance: Ensuring compliance with regulations and setting security policies.Incident Response.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Investigate & triage alarms raised by L1 remote team and qualify an alarm into incident if required
• Assign severity to the incidents, invoke incident response and ensure closure of incident
• Design incident response procedures/ playbooks, continuously fine tune SIEM use cases with lessons learned Design SOC KPIs, weekly & monthly management presentations
• Design threat hunting hypothesis, set scope and ensure successful completion of the hunt
• Monitor cyber threats and take… Show more
• Monitor cyber threats and take preventive measures by rolling out relevant advisories & sharing IOCs

• Spearheading Vulnerability Management Program and IT Infrastructure security baselining enterprisewide
• Ensure that cyber security policies and procedures are communicated to all personnel and that compliance is enforced
• Ensure compliance with the changing laws and applicable regulations, translate that knowledge to identification of risks and actionable plans to protect the enterprise crown jewels
• Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the… Show more
• Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems and services
• Oversee identity and access management. Also implemented Privileged Access Management solution enterprise-wide

Dubai, UAE

• As part of the IT Security GRC team at a prominent UAE based airlines carried out group wide ISR (Dubai Information Security Regulation) gap assessment program.
• Ensure that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and tested
• Review security policies, controls and cyber incident response planning
• Review investigations after breaches or incidents, including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities
• Designed information… Show more
• Designed information security KPIs to measure Information Security policies and standards compliance in various enterprise wide department outside of IT

Mumbai Area, India

• Develop audit work programs to offer comprehensive audit coverage as well as defined set of IT controls to evaluate the control design/implementation effectiveness for various IT technologies,applications and projects..
• Plan, organize and execute reviews in areas including, but not limited to: IT infrastructure; architecture;application systems… Show more
• Plan, organize and execute reviews in areas including, but not limited to: IT infrastructure; architecture;application systems, IT projects; information/cybersecurity (e.g. network, operating system, cloud,database.
• Analyze and keep up-to-date the risk profiles of IT areas so as to identify the priority areas and recommend them to Internal Audit management for prioritization. This involved on-going liaison with IT Managers and.
• Draft the audit report, follow up on responses and ensure appropriate action is taken to implement agreed audit recommendations
• Skills/ Tools of trade: End to end liaison for SOC type 2 audit, Client specific compliance audits, ISO27001,PCI DSS v2 control implementer & external certification liaison, Technology Risk Assessment, OpenSecurity.

Mumbai Area, India

Technical Risk AdvisoryVulnerability AssessmentISMS Internal AuditsPre-Client Visit Compliance Audits

Lead Coordinator - ISO 27001 Coordinator - PCI DSS v1.2Coordinator - BCPInternal AuditsVulnerability Assesment using toolsRisk Assesment

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