Pradeep Kumar
Information Security Consultant And Auditor
Pune
Summary
Skilled and certified information security professional with 11+ years of experience in cybersecurity. Collaborated with banking, financial, and manufacturing industries, specializing in IT audit, risk management, and IAM solutions. Expertise in auditing, strategizing, architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting comprehensive security solutions for organizations.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
IDAM Consultant & Internal Auditor
Infosys Limited
1 2021 - Current
- Perform internal audits of different information systems and technical controls in accordance with ISO 27001, NIST frameworks, GDPR.
- Develop action plans with higher management and compliance team to address identified issues, promoting timely resolution of audit findings.
- Promote best practices in data management and privacy by auditing information systems for security vulnerabilities.
- Work with external auditors and provided evidence, reports for effectively conducting annual audits.
- Perform in-depth security assessment of IDAM tools, connected database & servers, implemented solutions to bridge the gap.
- Build procedures to enhance the incident, change and patch management process to mitigate the risks.
- Continuous enhancement of access management using SailPoint IdentityIQ.
- Implemented SSO using Microsoft ADFS and Azure AD.
Senior Associate Consultant
Infosys Limited
11.2017 - 12.2020
- Designed architecture and provided solution to build and implement IDAM suite for small to large scale projects using tools like SailPoint, OIM, Tivoli.
- Gathered and analyzed stakeholder requirements, integrated different applications different applications such as Microsoft AD, Oracle database, JDBC applications, JIRA, web service, delimited file, Unix, Service Now and others with IDAM tools.
- Implemented RBAC-Birthright provisioning that enabled the new joiners/call center agents to start working in a day with basic and least privileged access.
- Implemented self-registration & role expiry date extension functionality, customized LCM and UM provisioning workflow, reports, tasks, rule, form,email templates and quick links.
- Added new modify user operations functionality and life cycle events -Rejoiner, Mover, Suspend, Termination by Date to ease down the manager and HR works by 95%.
- Implemented targeted, application owner, manager, role composition certification with custom rules and UI & system configuration that helped compliance team to conveniently deal with internal and external audits.
- Automated Jira ticket creation and implemented features like bulk user joiner, update and leaver, password management, bulk access approval through SailPoint to reduce workload of support teams and approvers by 90%.
- Provided IDAM training to IT interns and professionals.
Senior/Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies Ltd
02.2013 - 10.2017
- Managed an integration team within the IAM space responsible for developing and maintaining the workflows, provisioning support, application on-boarding, reporting and audit.
- Consulted with clients to identify their projects specifications and follow up with deployed applications status and any technical issues.
- Continually identified areas that needed improvement and guided junior developers in measuring the level of adjustment required.
- Did full deployment of OIM 11g including connector installation, metadata import, plugin installations and IT resource configuration, job scheduling.
- Integrated OIM with different directory Servers such as Microsoft AD, Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Oracle Unified Directory (OUD).
- Configured scope for identities, roles & entitlements, implemented access policies and policy violation feature in access management.
- Deployed build manually and also through Go-Pipeline that eased down code the code deploys by 90%.
- Tested applications using HP Quality center (QC) tool.
- Monitored status of Linux servers using Netdata on daily basis.
- Handled support requests and defects at L1, L2, & L3 level for prod environments with complete customer satisfaction.
- Reduced Database and windows Helpdesk Call by 80% with Centralized User Management and Single Sign On (SSO).
- Centralized Database Accounts in IDAM and Eliminated Helpdesk Calls on DB Passwords
- Granted IT access rapidly, improve compliance and manage security risk with greater visibility into user access.
Education
Bachelor in Information Technology -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Odisha 01.2008 - 04.2012
Skills
Information Security
Security Governance
Cyber security Compliance
Knowledge of ISO 27001 and NIST security standard
Change, Incident, Patch Management
Data Leakage Prevention
Project Management
Communication Skills
IAM Solutions
SailPoint IdentityIQ 72-83p2
Oracle Identity Management 11g R2
Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Entitlements Server
Oracle Unified Directory
IBM Tivoli
SAP BI Intelligence reporting tool
MySQL 58
Agile methodology
Java, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, DevSecOps, SQL Developer, Git Hub, SVN
Certification
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), 2022
Languages
English
Hindi
Timeline
Senior Associate Consultant
Infosys Limited
11.2017 - 12.2020
Senior/Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies Ltd
02.2013 - 10.2017
Bachelor in Information Technology -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
01.2008 - 04.2012
IDAM Consultant & Internal Auditor
Infosys Limited
1 2021 - Current