Nikitha Gowda(Nikki) Mohan Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to recruiting, retaining, and advancing women and ally in cybersecurity. As Marketing Director for the San Diego Affiliate, I lead strategic initiatives to elevate our chapter's visibility and impact within the local cybersecurity community.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Leads requirements gathering and analysis, managing multiple engagements in results-based team environment. Assists in establishing Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for workforce and consumers. Assists in aligning IAM plans with university business and IT teams. Fosters business and IT relationships to achieve shared goals.• Led university-wide upgrade to CISCO Duo Universal Prompt, securing 100k+ users across 52 departments, reducing phishing attempts by 35%.• Led 12-month project to upgrade 18 critical IAM services from Cent OS to RHEL 9, mitigating end-of-life vulnerabilities and securing USC's IT infrastructure for 100k+ users.• Led the automation-driven onboarding of 1800 Active Directory privileged accounts to CyberArk PAM, reducing manual effort by 50% through SailPoint IGA integration. Streamlined vaulting process and trained end users, ensuring smooth transition and exceeding Cyber Insurance requirements.• Spearheaded a 3-year, multi-million-dollar project implementing 7 IAM security controls across 71 critical assets, reducing risk by 60% in FY 22 and meeting PCI DSS, FERPA regulatory standards.• Led the successful upgrade of SailPoint IIQ from V 8.0 P1 to V 8.02 P2, ensuring compliance with vulnerability management requirements and vendor-supported version.• Engaged with customers and partners to provide Access Management roadmap updates, gather product feedback, and identify opportunities and challenges aligned with business needs.• Conducted data analysis to identify trends in production and maintenance costs, implementing cost reduction strategies.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Developed and implemented an IAM priority board to improve resource allocation and streamline task management, resulting in a 25% increase in efficiency within IAM resources and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality work.• Orchestrated the product management team for SailPoint IGA platform, resulting in a launch and adoption by customers in 12 IT department within USC and increased customer satisfaction by over 40%.• Conducted access reviews and compliance reporting, resulting in a 95% reduction in PCI compliance gaps. Developed access control processes to ensure alignment with audit requirements, resulting in a 100% pass rate on all PCI audits.• Led & implemented central IT CyberArk PAM solution, supporting 52 school units, meeting compliance with NIST 800 & ISO2700, resulting in 95% reduction in privileged access breaches.• Managing day-to-day operation of Identity & Access Management including authentication, approval of exceptions, investigation, and other tasks.• Engaged in building PAM infrastructure from scratch and responsible for managing the PAM solution.• Lead Privileged Access Management (PAM) Initiative for USC and provide training sessions on CyberArk (PAM) to IAM customer's.• Identify privileged accounts including High Value Assets (HVA's)and work on managing in CyberArk, allowing proper accountability and audit.• Work closely with vendors on escalations, license management , check in..etc• Manage the business and IT relationships within OCISO, ITS and across USC to achieve shared goals.• Engage with customers and partners to deliver IAM roadmap updates, get product feedback, and identify additional challenges and opportunities.• Proven skills and ability to successfully implement the project within the given timeframe in a fast-paced dynamic environment.• Exceptional skills in addressing and managing escalations.

St Louis Park, Mn, Us

· Actively participated in day to day operational support in adding and deleting accounts, applying policies, assigning safes, synchronizing failed accounts, Password rotations.· Actively working on PAM operational tasks including creating safes, defining access control, assigning polices/platforms, user provisioning and entitlements.· Played a significant role in managing application credentials as per pre-defined standards and worked on auto upload using PACLI.· Coordinated LDAP integration with AD and network security team to open firewall ports.· Responsible for maintaining licenses for several EPV components and ensuring they are up-to date. · Led special record on privileged account on board with numerous lines of business and technology teams· Involved in implementing and integration AIM with CyberArk and troubleshooting AIM related issues.· Migrated CyberArk suite from 9.2 to 9.8 (CPM, PSM, EPV, PVWA & AIM)· Worked on incidents and problem tickets, ensuring SLA’s have not breeched.· Coordinated with Cyber Ark support teams for escalation and resolution of issues in Prod & DR.· Assisted in configuring Event notification engine (ENE) with Cyber Ark.

· Develop and Document all Secure Coding requirements, usage, guidelines, standards and processes.· Develop, document and execute all Test Cases for Security Testing.· Producing monthly metrics, reporting the state of application security programs and programmers of development teams against requirements.· Installed and configured Private-Ark Client to manage Vault server.· Managed failed accounts synchronization and password rotations.· Generated reports of the account and devices inventories in the Cyber Ark.· Monitored service now queue; Worked on incidents and request to ensure timely delivery and managing SLA breaches.· Automated day to day activity using Power Shell scripts.· Assisted in review of business solution architectures from security point of view which helped avoiding security related issues/threats at the early stage of project.· Performed in the role of subject matter expert in the creation of use cases, project time-lines and infrastructure diagrams.

· Installed LANs, WANs, and internet and intranet systems, network segments.· Installed, maintained and repaired network and related systems, subsystems and servers, overseeing computer/server operation and environment.· To address and integrate Security in SDLC by following techniques like Threat Modeling, Risk Management, Logging, Penetration Testing, etc.· Performing manual attack simulations on company systems and web applications and APIs to determine and exploit different OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.· Defining requirements for information security solutions and performing reviews of application designs and source code.· Working on improvements for security services and providing remediation for the existing security issues.· Managed workload in Remedy ticketing system. Improved work flow by using this system to view parameters and monitor work request progress.· Performing the tests on fixed issues to make sure the closure is done correctly.· Served as initial escalation point for information security operations team, providing outstanding customer service through timely, high quality customer support.· Documented information security guidance in step-by- step operational procedures.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy And Management Consulting

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science

Graduate Certificate, Optimization And Supply Chain Management

Graduate Certificate, Strategy And Management Consulting