Deepak Sawant

Accomplished Cybersecurity Project Manager with 14 years of experience in Australia. Specializing in delivering strategic technology outcomes for complex cybersecurity, technology, and enterprise transformation initiatives within the energy utility and major financial sectors. Skilled in utilizing both waterfall and agile frameworks to successfully navigate intricate stakeholder landscapes, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of high-impact technical projects.

APA Group:

1. Reduced Privilege identities residual risk by greenfield implementation of Privilege Access Management SaaS solution (Delinea - Secret Server) with migration of 600 privilege accounts from on prem to the new cloud solution

2. Achieved “AESCSF” Access and Situation Awareness domain compliance by fulfilling “SP1 and SP2” requirements

3. Delivered SOC uplift by decommissioning TSOC and implementing SIEM SaaS solution (Exabeam) and onboarding of 30 tier 1 log sources for threat detection, investigation and response

4. Greenfield implementation of Cloud DLP (MCAS) to monitor and protect cloud app data and roll out of AIP (sensitivity labels)

5. Defined User Access Process for APA with manual role and user access attestation of 30 tier1 applications

6. Built new OT vCentre and migrated 150+ VMs from corporate vCentre to new Ops vCentre

7. Achieved AESCSF – Antipattern 4 requirement by implementing MFA for 50 non-public internet facing applications

Ausgrid:

1. Successfully orchestrated the build and implementation of greenfield Enterprise-wide SaaS Identity Management Solution from SailPoint (Identity Now)

2. Successfully migrated Ausgrid's End user compute asset protection from Symantec (SEP) to Microsoft Windows Defender solution including contract variation/decommissioning

3. Led the implementation of Ausgrid's EUC and Server Vulnerability Assessment Scanning and remediated around 130K of vulnerabilities. Solution implemented, Tenable Nessus

4. Successfully onboarded Ausgrid's critical application onto IAM and Databases onto PAM to remediate iPART audit user access and privilege user risks

5. Led the risk remediation piece for EUC local administrators by implementing Windows LAPS

6. Remediated the OT residual risk of decommissioning and migrating 5 critical applications from ICT network to OT network

Commonwealth Bank of Australia:

1. Completed the Microsoft Azure 0365 capability project, also known as the UPN (user principal name) project, by integrating Identity Manager to guarantee that all bank users have access to the goal end state of cloud logon

2. As part of the Vault connection, 6500 ITSMO users were successfully moved to TPAM, accomplishing the Security Risk goal of decommissioning the internal Password application tracker

3. Successfully, implemented and migrated 90 key bank wide Tier 1 and 2 applications onto Dell1 Identity System

4. Enabled Single sign on for Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications of bank

5. Implemented version release 4.0 and 4.1 for Dell 1 Identity to streamline joiner mover leaver process

• Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate – 2025
• Generative AI for Project Manager from PMI Institute – 2025
• Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance - 2025
• PMI Project Management – The Complete Guide, Sydney University, Australia 2015
• Microsoft Project – Managing Projects, Sydney University, Australia 2015
• ITIL V3 certified