KRISHANU SIKDAR

• Leading Cyber Security practices with over 13+ years of unique experience with a blend of Technical, Management as well as specialist skills in the field of Design, Pre-Sales and Solution Preparations with Information/Cyber security/DevSecOps expertise
• Contacted key accounts regularly and achieved high satisfaction scores by routinely re-assessing needs and resolving conflicts.
• Understood and capitalized on industry trends to shape and enhance value-added solutions and strategies for new market developments.
• Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
• Coached sales associates in product specifications, sales incentives and selling techniques, significantly increasing customer satisfaction ratings.
• Developed sales strategy based on research of consumer buying trends and market conditions.
• Having rich experience in Advisory and transformation Specialist services with clients to discuss on their problem areas and assisting them with the appropriate security controls (IDAM / Network / Data / Cyber Events / Vulnerability Management / Security Assurance / Security Awareness / SIEM / Cryptography controls Etc.).
• Improved ROIs related to Security initiatives by suggesting them the appropriate Security Controls.

· Cyber Security Practice Leader, North America Region

• Multiple advisory engagement involving design/ review of information security initiatives undertaken by client organizations including SIEM, IT GRC, DLP, WIPS, EPS, NAC, social media security, etc
• Multiple advisory engagements involving information security management systems and IT risk management for large clients across industries including financial services, oil and gas and multi-business conglomerates.
• Assisted multiple organizations in establishing and certifying information security management system in line with ISO 27001 standard
• Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
• Analyze Cyber Security Trends, Build and Execute GTM Plans
• Collaboration and GTM with Cyber Security OEM / Services Partners like IBM, Cisco, zScaler
• Launched Managed Cyber Recovery solution with Dell and thereby generating 1.5 Mn$ from customer prospects
• Launched Runtime Application Security with Virsec which helped Tech M 1 Mn$
• Launched Tech M and Cisco joint SASE Offering

• Program Management of - Cyber Security & Cloud Projects
• Forward-thinking Senior Manager adept at managing teams of 20+ to accomplish challenging objectives in Cyber Security, Data Center and Cloud
• Handling multiple customer engagements (5-10 or more) simultaneously and thereby spearheading end to end delivery of projects for revenue realization of 4 million US Dollars Annually
• Act as a key liaison between CxO / Client and/or top management
• Host weekly and monthly governance and operational review connect
• Created reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to Management
• Mentor the team on the enhancements on security analysis processes and coach in developing content creation, on attacking vectors, deep investigation, and mitigation procedures and conduct the skills
• Leading the Service Transformation projects of Cloud/ Cyber Security Services for Global Customers
• Translated customer requirements into solution designs and managed end to end implementation for the following projects:
• ZScaler Web Security implementation and Migration Project for 32 Global locations for “Jung Heinrich”
• VMWare Private Cloud/Security Services Implementation for a large Indian BFSI company – “Religare”:
• Developed program document on requirement of SOC, defined strategies, services catalogue, other supporting documents such as Security Incident Management, Severity Management, Operation module, SOC functional module, Incident flow process, runbooks, SOPs
• Hybrid Cloud and Cyber Security Project for large BFSI Company – “SREI”
• Design and Implementation of Network Security, Web Security and Application Security
• DDoS and WAF Security Implementation and Managed Services for Large Indian Govt
• Banking company – “PNB”
• Application and Network Security for Large Indian multinational banking and financial services company
• Huawei Private Cloud implementation for SAP S/4 HANA and Application Infrastructure: “Elseco” - Dubai based risk management and insurance underwriting specialist for the space, energy and aviation sectors, Published in the World Congress of Engineering, 2009
• Focused on implementing Virtual Operating System (OS) by directly invoking the hardware
• Orchestrated smooth and efficient program development by collaborating cross-functionally across departments.
• Designed and developed programs and projects for dissemination to personnel.
• Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
• Worked with subject matter experts to develop and implement mentoring programs to promote better learner experiences.
• Participated in vendor selection and management process for program initiatives.

• Sales – Cloud, Cyber Security & Data Center Transformation Services:
• Helped, to win 25+ Mn US$ worth opportunities through various Pre-Sales activities
• End to end solution development and solution presentation for Cloud, Cyber Security and Data Center Transformation
• Delivered a consulting assignment for World Telecom Major by analyzing requirements and creating evaluation matrix in order to propose the best vendor for capacity management
• Marketing collateral development for external showcase of 16+ sub offerings of Cloud and Cyber Security
• Project and Bid Management for medium and large sales opportunities (up to 100 Mn US$)
• Kept track of all constraints, risks, dependencies, flagged issues and provided the action plan for risk mitigation
• Co-ordination and brainstorming with multiple capability teams and Accenture’s leadership for solution development, Implementation of a Purely Hardware-assisted VMM for x86 Architecture - NIT Calicut(Link to research paper)

• Requirement analysis for new functionality development and integration with legacy tool
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirement & Requirements Traceability
• Test case management and execution for the multiple functionalities
• Functionality Design analysis with Development and Product Management teams
• Use case set creation for Automatic Priority Calculation feature
• Testing of installation across multiple platform Windows, Linux/Unix platforms