Yogesh Kumar Sharma

Responsibilities - ● Provide strategic direction and oversight for all aspects of the company's information security program and new business initiatives. ● Development and implementation of comprehensive cybersecurity policies, procedures, and security controls to ensure data protection and regulatory compliance. ● Management of organization’s vulnerability management program covering all web applications, APIs, servers and network assets. ● Lead security incident response efforts, conducting investigations, and coordinating remediation actions. ● Collaborate with executive leadership and business heads to align security initiatives with business objectives. ● Manage security audits, assessments, compliance activities collaborating with regulatory bodies i.e. RBI, UIDAI, Cert-IN and MeitY. ● Foster a culture of security awareness and conduct security event, training programs for employees. ● Certified the organization with ISO 27001:2022 certification

Responsibilities - ● Responsible for implementation and management of the information security controls for Tata Chemicals India, UK, Magadi, US and Rallis India (subsidiary of Tata Chemicals) IT and OT environment. ● Provide strategic direction and oversight for all aspects of the company's information security program. ● Develop and implement comprehensive cybersecurity policies, procedures, and security controls to ensure data protection and regulatory compliance. ● Lead security incident response efforts, conducting investigations, and coordinating remediation actions. ● Collaborate with executive leadership and department heads to align security initiatives with business objectives. ● Manage security audits, assessments, compliance activities. ● Foster a culture of security awareness and conduct training programs, phishing simulation exercises for employees.

With Tata Consultancy Services, I have served on various roles in cyber security including delivery, project management, alliance management, operations, and presales. Some of the notable achievements are as follows: ● Designed an advanced security operations centre (SOC) architecture for one of the large banks in Colombia, LATAM covering security technologies like SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, Network Detection & Response, Threat Intel Platform, Threat Intel Feeds, Threat Hunting, Security Sandbox, Vulnerability Assessment. ● Headed cyber security services, delivery and sales in LATAM and generated a strong pipeline and revenue for the organization. ● Managed multiple security projects in the vulnerability management domain for banking customers related to SAST, Asset Discovery and Enumeration, DAST. ● Managed Indian Army project in public key infrastructure and setup disaster recovery site for them. ● Successfully completed projects on setting up cyber command centres for shared security services in India. ● Brought consecutive leadership positions for Tata Consultancy Services as a managed security services player in the market from research firms like Forrester, NelsonHall, Ovum, HfS and Everest. ● Defined and executed the GTM strategy, developed new security offerings, explored new business opportunities, and enabled training programs for security professionals as security partner and alliance lead. ● Initiated Tata Consultancy Services’ HackQuest program PAN India to identify and hire talent in penetration testing every year.

● Developed and implemented first value added service (VAS) service for a telecom company in Lagos, Nigeria. ● Developed, and implemented VAS product/services on voice-based platform for India based customers. ● Enhancement and modification of VAS provided remote assistance for daily upkeep and maintenance of services to ensure 24 x7 availability.