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• Collected metrics and insights from discussions with both internal and externalstakeholders to inform program enhancements and upstream initiatives• Created knowledge base articles and process documents. These resourcesstreamline the program, help smooth onboarding and facilitate consistent practices• Conducting interviews for additional team members to ensure the program’sscalability and backfilling positions for maintaining operational continuity• Enabled the team to transition over and handle an enhanced scope of work,reflecting growth and maturity• Conducted training sessions for team members, sharing expertise and best practices• Developing and strengthening the team’s capabilities through mentorshi

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 • Performing critical reporting on issues, expectations and timelines as lead interface to corporate control groups• Reviewing the implementation of agreed action plan validating documentation shared by the auditees to ensure identified gaps during audit are closed• Proactively highlighting issues pertaining towards cost effectiveness, provide measurable benefits through operational improvements and maintaining documentation in this regard• Leading design and timely implementation of Best Practices and Operational Excellence initiatives across the department using innovative and creative solutions• Exhibiting leadership and negotiation skills needed to obtain management buy-in for constructive change• Contributing to appropriate upskilling of the internal audit team (e.g. providing training and awareness sessions on information security concepts, coaching and mentoring team members, guidance and support on upskilling to team members)

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 organization IT objectives• 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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