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* Innovative Product Research: Spearheading research initiatives to identify and conceptualize novel product ideas within the cybersecurity domain.* Prototype Development: Hands-on creation of Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and functional prototypes to validate the feasibility and efficacy of product concepts.* Market Validation: Conduct in-depth interviews with VPs and CxOs to ensure product-market fit and alignment with industry needs.* Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborating closely with engineering teams to translate product features and requirements into actionable development plans.* Customer Engagement: Facilitating seamless onboarding experiences and maintaining proactive communications to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.* Product Management Excellence: Overseeing the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to commercialization, while ensuring operational efficiency and quality.* Expert Security Consulting: Providing strategic guidance and advisory services to clients, leveraging deep domain expertise to address their security challenges effectively.* Product Security Leadership: As the primary architect and manager for in-house product security initiatives, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats.* Work with founders to create product pitch for customers, VCs

* Identify strategic openings for integration with third-party vendors to bolster security operation workflows* Establish strategic partnerships with 3rd party vendors* Collate and scrutinize customer feedback to pinpoint novel integration prospects and enhance the existing platform functionalities.* Articulate and implement a comprehensive strategy and roadmap for integration and platform enhancements.* Formulate and execute a product strategy and roadmap tailored to Cloud and Container Security products.* Collaborate closely with our engineering teams to conceptualize and bring innovative integrations, platform improvements, and product features to life.

* Contributed in designing and executing enterprise Security Roadmap for a SaaS Platform* Orchestrated end-to-end security operations for SaaS solutions and enterprise platforms, ensuring comprehensive security throughout the product lifecycle.* Managed executive and external security communications, fostering a culture of trust and transparency* Established and led Cloud Platform Security and DevSecOps teams from inception, building robust security services from the ground up across all functions of cyber security.* Publish executive reports for enterprise security maturity and improvements over the quarters* Create data-driven investment plans, secure approvals, and demonstrate significant ROIs on past security investments* Hired and managed team of 40+ team members (Full-time + contractors + MSP)* Developed and operationalized a framework to lead Mergers and Acquisitions and led a few of the M&As as IT leadership* Co-authoring RFP and evaluation frameworks for Security tools and Services* Contributed to the Unified Repository of Evidences program to simplify the security Audit process* Demonstrated expertise in Security Architecture, optimizing overall security posture for the organization.* Authored and contributed to security policies and procedures that align with business and compliance requirements.* Designed and operationalized a unified security platform/data warehouse, enhancing threat hunting, detection, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.* Identified and defined key Security KPIs and operationalized by architecting/designing an automated near-real-time monitoring platform reducing MTTC, MTTR, and MTTM* Successfully executed compliance support programs to meet regulatory requirements effectively.* Effectively maintained and nurtured vendor relations, ensuring strong partnerships and a robust security ecosystem.

* Identify, design and architect product features/workflows (Unified controls inventory, Blob FIM, Data Access Governance, Unified compliance reports, PaaS DB Scanning)* Continuous customer interaction to understand their infrastructure, requirements and prioritize the features/support* Architect cloud native solutions to address customer requirements by conceptualizing existing products integration* Building a Strong Cloud Security research team from ground up* Research and document the threats impacting cloud workloads* Research on Securing Cloud and container platforms/services* Research and development of config signatures for Zero days and Critical CVEs to create compensatory controls* Granular mapping of Signatures to Security compliance requirement per security compliance/mandate* Assisting SecOps team in integrating in-house products into the company’s own environment* Assisting SecOps team to pentest unconventional services which are currently not supported by in-house scanning tools* Achieved substantial cost reductions within outsourced solutions and services

* Threat model and research on new platforms to develop security benchmarks/baseline documents which works as Security Essentials * Exploit Research on basis of zero-day vulnerabilities * Research in HIPS/HIDS products to establish secure execution profile and prevent Behavioral Anomalies* Create detailed guidelines/documents to convert security research into automation/feature * Research on Security Mandates* Develop a feature to calculate security risk scoring considering environmental factors based on CVSS V3* Assisted DLP team for identifying ISO 27001:2013 compliance requirements * Conducting training sessions on Penetration Testing and newer technologies for team members * Application Security Management for web-UIs hosted on product * Vulnerability Management for Infra involved with the product

* Managing Application and Infrastructure Security throughout application life cycle for 130+ applications (Web/standalone-applications/Web-Services/ThickClients/Mobile Applications) * Lead of Solution Review Board, Change Management Board and Exception review board from security vertical* Assisting WAF implementations, manage WAF Rules * Leading P1 Security Incidents * Assisting Security monitoring solution deployment for one of the clients

* Leading customer facing team of Info-Sec Consultants covering* Specialized in open-source security solution evaluation, implementation and management* Conducting Penetration testing, Vulnerability management, Web Application Security Testing for customers* Conducting CEH, ECSA, CHFI and PT trainings to corporates

* Lead Team for security monitoring (SecOps)* Analyzing captured attack patterns, calculate impact and recommend mitigations * Research on newly identified attack patterns * Critical application log monitoring, analysis, Documentation * Conduct Trainings on Information Security for Team members * Vulnerability Assessment and report generation

* Implementing ISMS (ISO 27001:2005) with a third party consultant. * Integration of Application Security into SDLC * Evaluate, architect, implementing and manage open-source security solutionsMaintain security rules/policies for security tools * Vulnerability management, Daily Security monitoring and Incident response* System hardening including IBM Mainframe (Z10 ZVM) with IBM Team

* Identify and Access Management* Work on Authentication/Authorization related Problems * Conduct periodic reviews of all applications * Conduct User Acceptance Tests for applications * Conduct training on Networking Basics in weekly meetings* Active participation in RBS IN IT SEC Roadmap 2013

* Workaround with various Cyber Crimes, Cyber Laws in India (IT Act 2000 and Amended IT Act 2008), Corporate Espionages & their investigation procedures.* Imparting training to Law Enforcement Agencies* Assisting the cops in Cyber Crime investigation/ Computer Forensics.* Actively involved in training more than 100 police officers ranking from Police Inspector to Commissioner of Police.* Trainings conducted on Hacking, Cyber Crime Investigations and Digital Forensics.* Active participation in conducting workshops on Cyber Crime Investigation for CID (Maharashtra State), District Judges and Police Prosecutors.* Audit Pune Police Website for security loopholes.* Provided technical guidelines to Pune Police in solving various Cyber Crime cases related to Email Frauds, Social Networking Frauds, Banking & Credit Card Frauds, Data theft, Source Code theft, Lottery Scams etc.