Vikranth Kumar Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Oversee the management of findings related to third-party security assessments.This involves tracking and addressing open findings from vendor risk assessments
• Coordinating with assessors and ensuring timely resolution of identified issues
• Collaborating with leadership, worked to enhance existing processes and developnew ones. These improvements are based on observed program trends and insights
• By identifying areas for refinement, contributed to a more effective and efficientthird-party security risk management process
• Unblocked team members by providing guidance and reviewing their work
• Running periodic campaigns to reduce risk by reaching necessary stakeholders.These campaigns were aimed to raise awareness and encourage proactive riskmitigation

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Planning the team size for the assignments and allocating areas for execution to assigned team members in IT audits
• Collaborating with executive leadership to freeze audit scope, coverage, expectations and conduct audit
• Identifying and listing the areas to be covered as a part of the assignment and drafting the risk and control matrix basis risk assessments
• Leading the team providing necessary training and guidance to team members to effectively and timely perform the assignment
• Supervising the field work performed by the team members
• Reviewing audit findings with auditee and leadership and providing recommendations

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Conducting risk based IT audits in domains of data privacy, information security and application security
• Working with executive leadership to freeze audit scope, coverage, expectations and conduct audit
• Developing and administering risk assessments and reviews for audits utilizing the COBIT and other security frameworks including organization policies/guidelines
• Performing critical reporting on timelines, expectations and issues as lead interface to corporate control groups and providing recommendations on identified gaps to influence changes that align existing processes with.
• Reviewing audit findings with auditee and leadership
• Conducting periodic security awareness and information security related training for Corporate Internal audit team

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Performing IT security assessments for Wipro clients per organization established checklists to identify and report security gaps, provide recommendations and track to closure

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Spearheading employee rotation initiative at Wipro Infotech (WI)
• Collaborating with leadership for rotation policy changes and roll out
• Interfacing with internal Workforce Management Group teams across WI service lines to ensure employee rotations were done as scheduled

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Driving employee rotations internally within service line and preparing performance reports
• Resolving disagreements with supervisors and workforce management teams on employee tenure period and release
• Managing tool (used for employee internal rotation) and interfacing with IT team for tool enhancements and testing

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Running performance tests on Cisco 5400 series universal gateway devices
• Running test cases on devices with new firmware, identifying performance issues, troubleshooting root cause and reporting any bugs

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Providing technical support for configuration, implementation and troubleshooting of Sonicwall (UTMs)
• Assisting customer configurations with VPN, VPN clients, NAT policies, loopback policies, content filtering, load balancing/failover, custom security policies, IDS/IPS, bandwidth management and QoS/VoIP configuration
• Setting up test environments to simulate various customer issues

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Resolving customer queries related to installations, errors, fixes for Microsoft Products - Windows 98 SE and Windows ME
• Assisting customers to get rid of malicious software/ browser hijack programs

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Pre-University

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