KIERAN UPADRASTA
CISSP, CISM, CRISC
Kieran
Upadrasta, CISSP is the CISO, and the founder, Director of Cyber Artificial
Intelligence Systems. He is a cyber security architect, Information security
consultant, InfoSec Researcher. He is a CISSP, CISM, CRISC qualified. Policy
Advisor, Expert Witness. University Gold Medallist. Mr. Upadrasta was also a
former engineer in the Air Force Information Warfare Unit. Cyber Defence
taskforce member. Mr Upadrasta
received an honorary doctorate from Tampas, and he is now appointed as
Honorary Professor of Practice at the Schiphol University where he leads on
the Artificial intelligence (AI), Cyber Security and Quantum Computing
integrated research, practice, and education. Mr. Upadrasta won the
Augustum’s hall of fame award and Rainbow Series World Record. Mr. Upadrasta has over 26 years’ experience of business analysis,
consulting, technical security strategy, architecture, governance, security
analysis, threat assessments and risk management. 26 years’ Cyber Security
experience with big 4 consulting firms. 20 years worked in Financial and
Banking industry. He has worked with the largest corporations to become
compliant with OCC, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO27001, NIST, PCI and SAS70. Mr.
Upadrasta has worked on projects in over 50 countries, and he is fluent in 9
spoken languages. Mr. Upadrasta
has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies., including Banking,
Financial, Insurance, defence and aerospace clients. His competencies range
from setting up risk management programs and developing enterprise network
security architectures to constructing enterprise-wide security programs that
connects computer security and business needs in a synergistic manner. Mr Upadrasta was the lead author
of a prize-winning research paper, widely published in the field of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Security. Having published over 100
papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented or lectured research papers at
nearly 100 national and international meetings, Mr Upadrasta is strongly
invested in the pioneering research which will bring new hope to next
generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Security. Expert in Business Continuity
planning (BCP) and Management, Resilience, Disaster recovery
planning (DRP), Incident response, Crises management, Critical and Major
Incident Management (MiM), Stakeholder engagement, mapping requirements and
management. Specialised in the following areas: - |
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• Governance, IT Auditing - Policy, Legal,
Regulatory Compliance, Investigations, forensics, COBIT, Archer eGRC, PCIDSS,
GDPR, Data protection, SOX • Policy, Standards, Framework, Audits – ISO27001, SAS
70, NIST, COBIT, Smart city Reviews, BCP, DRP, HIPAA, PCIDSS, SOC2 • Risk management -SARA, SPRINT, IRAM • Threat management - Arbor SP Peakflow,
Forefront TMS, DDOS mitigations, Akamai Kona defender, Siteshield, Threat
modelling, Threat hunting, Intel • Vulnerabilities management -Qualys,
Tenable Nessus, Foundstone • Strategic Planning, Security architecture
- HLD & LLD creation, Enterprise architecture – SABSA, TOGAF • Identity and Access
Management IAM- AD, Azure AD, Okta • Privileged Access
Management (PAM): CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Thycotic, Centrify, Lieberman,
Broadcom Symantec CA PAM, SailPoint IGA • Data loss and fraud prevention - Symantec
DLP, Advanced Persistent Threat APT, User Behavior
Analytics UBA • Cybersecurity Platforms: CrowdStrike,
Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, M365 Defender, Falcon Sensors, McAfee,
Symantec, Carbon Black, Fortinet, FireEye, Cylance, MITRE ATT&CK
Framework, Endpoint & Cloud Protection, Detection, And Response (EDR),
Falcon X, Breach Prevention, Vulnerability Management, Threat Hunting, Zero
Trust, Container Security, NGAV, Device Control, Firewall Management,
Artificial Intelligence, Automation • Cloud platforms
-AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Cloud technologies • Automation -
Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker,Terraform,
Jenkins, Python •Management –
Projects, Engineering and Security operations • SIEM
: Arcsight ESM, Qradar,
Splunk, LogRhythm, RSA Security Analytics, Envision • Firewalls, IDS, IPS
- Checkpoint, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper, ISS, Snort, Sourcefire, Web Application
Firewall WAF • Encryptions, Vpns, IPsec, PKI, Endpoints - Safe boot, Pointsec, CrowdStrike • Proxies, Content
filtering - Bluecoat, Zscaler, Finjan, Ironport • Agile, Prince2, DevOps, DevSecOps • Past work experience
with quite few international security agencies. • Past work experience
with Financial Conduct Authority FCA, Prudential Regulation Authority PRA Qualified: CISM, CRISC, CISSP, CyberArk
Certified, CCSE, CCSP, CCNA Security, JNCIS-FWV, MBA and BEng |