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 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 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
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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 |