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. Cyber Defence taskforce member. Upadrasta was also a former
engineer in the Air Force Information Warfare Unit, Policy Advisor, Expert
Witness, University Gold Medallist. 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. 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
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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, CCSE,
CCSP, CCNA Security, JNCIS-FWV, MBA and BEng |
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