Jayant D.

Acting as the Chief Security Strategist and Board-Level Advisor for the APAC region. I bridge the gap between technical threat intelligence and Fiduciary Risk for Check Point’s enterprise clientele. • Executive Advisory & Board Governance: Serving as a "Shadow CISO" for F500 clients, guiding their Boards on security consolidation, AI adoption, and TCO reduction. • Market & Policy Influence: Shaping regional cyber policy through direct engagement with regulators and elevating the brand's authority as a thought leader in AI Resilience. • Revenue & Strategy: Transforming security architecture from a cost center to a business enabler, directly influencing the pipeline and strategic retention by aligning solutions with client P&L goals.

Directed the cyber security posture for one of the world’s largest financial institutions across the APAC region. Accountable for the operational resilience of critical banking infrastructure and the leadership of a massive-scale workforce. • Organizational Leadership (670+): Built, scaled, and managed a diverse security workforce of over 670 professionals. Transformed the team from a support function into a proactive risk-management engine. • Strategic Capital Allocation: Directed the regional financial strategy for cyber programs, overseeing budget planning for both operational stability and growth initiatives. Aligned security investments with business objectives to ensure maximum ROI on technology spend. • Regulatory Fortress & Audit Defense: Served as the primary regulatory liaison, successfully steering the bank through high-stakes external audits. Mitigated exposure to operational penalties and solidified regulatory trust by ensuring 100% adherence to evolving compliance mandates. • Crisis Management: Led the regional Incident Response strategy, successfully mitigating high-severity threats and ensuring zero downtime for critical banking services during peak volatility. • Standardization Strategy: Unified fragmented regional controls into a standardized global framework, reducing operational friction and improving audit readiness by 40%.

Served as the security authority for Singapore’s Critical Information Infrastructure (CII), specifically the Symphony for ePayment system powering the national public transport network. • Critical Infrastructure Protection: Designed, authored, and enforced Information Security Policies and Standards for the mass-transit payment ecosystem, ensuring integrity for millions of daily transactions. • Command Centre Leadership: Directed the daily operations of the Security Command Centre (CC), overseeing real-time threat monitoring and incident response protocols. • ISO Quality Assurance: Appointed as the Quality Management Representative (QMR). Successfully steered the organization through rigorous internal and external ISO 9001:2008 audits, ensuring process maturity and compliance. • Technology Lifecycle Management: Owned the end-to-end lifecycle (implementation to optimization) of enterprise security tools, ensuring continuous defense readiness against evolving threats.

Served as the Regional Technical Lead for Security Operations, architecting the detection capabilities for the APAC Global Security Operations Center (GSOC). • Strategic Tech Modernization: Spearheaded the complex migration of the intrusion detection landscape from Legacy Dragon IDS to Sourcefire IDPS. Improved detection fidelity and reduced false positives across the region. • SIEM Architecture (ArcSight): Architected the integration of critical security feeds (Firewalls, SAN, DLP/Vontu) into the ArcSight ecosystem. Created a "Single Pane of Glass" for centralized monitoring, compliance reporting, and rapid incident triage. • SOC Team Building: Acted as the Technical Lead for the Singapore SOC hub. Responsible for hiring and upskilling L1/L2 analysts, establishing the operational baseline for the regional defense team. • Advanced Incident Resolution: Operated as the Level 3 Escalation Point for APAC. Resolved high-complexity security incidents involving Sourcefire, Arbor (DDoS), and Vontu (DLP) that lower-tier analysts could not mitigate.

Deployed as a specialized consultant to remediate critical network security risks for Citi’s APAC infrastructure. • Risk Remediation: Conducted a comprehensive audit and remediation program for high-risk firewall rules across the APAC region. Collaborated with business stakeholders to balance security hardening with operational uptime. • Executive Reporting: Presented risk assessments and project milestones directly to Citi Senior Management and Audit boards, translating technical vulnerabilities into business risk profiles. • Process Optimization: Delivered strategic recommendations that reshaped the existing firewall change-management processes, closing gaps in the security perimeter.

Operated as a lead technical consultant for Symantec’s enterprise client base, delivering secure network architecture and infrastructure hardening projects. • Telecom Infrastructure Defense: Designed and deployed a secure monitoring enclave for Telstra (Australia), ensuring visibility and integrity for one of the region’s largest telecommunications networks. • Secure Zone Architecture: Architected high-security "External Zones" for restricted research labs, implementing strict network segmentation (DMZ) to isolate sensitive intellectual property. • Service Delivery: Managed the end-to-end project lifecycle for firewall change management and security optimization, ensuring 100% adherence to client SLAs.

Managed the mission-critical infrastructure for a Certifying Authority (CA), specializing in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and cryptographic trust services. • PKI Infrastructure Management: Directed the operations of the Primary and Disaster Recovery (DR) sites for the Root CA, ensuring high availability for digital signature services. • Governance & Policy: Authored and audited Information Security Policies, including Certificate Policy (CP) and Certification Practice Statements (CPS) for high-assurance clients. • Technology Evaluation: Led the technical evaluation and procurement of network security appliances, defining the hardware standards for the organization’s secure perimeter.

Technical Instruction: Delivered advanced technical training on Cisco Network Architecture (CCNA) and Microsoft Systems (MCSE), establishing a deep foundational mastery of TCP/IP, routing protocols, and network administration. Administration: Managed the facility's network infrastructure, ensuring uptime for training labs and corporate users.