Ari Kumar

About Ari Kumar

Over a period of nearly 20 years in IT, Ari has worked across the three lines of defense to strengthen the organizational cyber security, risk, and compliance postures of 450+ Fortune clients he has advised. He specializes in leading organizations through innovative transformations to achieve their strategic business goals by blending his deep technical skills in enterprise IT and emerging areas such as Cloud (AWS and Azure) and AI, matured managerial expertise with organizational values and culture. Ari is experienced in global information security, cyber security, risk and compliance planning, operations and management leading large scale globally distributed teams, as well as strategic planning and fiscal management of the technology function for large scale business units. Time and again, Ari has received outstanding performance awards and accolades from peers and clients alike for his abilities of big-picture thinking, ownership and deep diving to solve complex problems, anticipation of challenges, and solutioning preemptively to work collaboratively with mid and C-level management stakeholders to propel organizations to often achieve more than anticipated success. Committed to providing exemplary services, Ari holds the following certifications: CISSP, Azure Solutions Architect, ISO Lead Auditor, ITIL Foundation, Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner.

Experience

1. Senior Manager

   Deloitte

   Oct 2017 — Present

   Directed re-design and enhancement of Information Security, Cyber Security and 3rd party security programs for organizations across several industries• Orchestrated AI risk management program - created AI Management Systems (AIMS) for major cloud solution providers, created tailored AI risk frameworks, operational methodologies and processes, workbooks, runbooks, etc. based on leading standards such as ISO and NIST• Led creation of greenfield cybersecurity programs for new M&A clients – developed cybersecurity new operating model, performed current state assessments, developed KRIs and KPIs, implemented full stack leading cybersecurity capabilities and services, stood up security operations center (SOC) from the ground up with a combination of in-house and MSSP providers• Enhanced brownfield cybersecurity programs to remediate risk prioritized issues and meet objectives through a tailored methodology to assess the current state, identified gaps and developed a strategic execution plan• Led strengthening of identity and access management, governance and administration programs to foster Zero Trust environments• Conducted detailed Cloud and AI governance and strategy assessment for a large TMT and healthcare clients. • Led Cloud Security transformation projects for TMT, healthcare clients. Analyzed existing cloud security landscape across various domains like IAM, Asset Mgmt, Change Mgmt, Threat and vulnerability Mgmt, Incident Management, Data Management, Privacy, etc. Identified gaps via a risk-based approach, designed functional and non-functional requirements and architected Cloud Security designs.• Enabled strengthening of organizational governance, cybersecurity, risk and compliance posture by leading target assessment and audits utilizing risk prioritized tailored controls frameworks aligned to Industry standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, CSA CCM, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1/2, SOX, HIPAA, DSA/DMA, GDPR, K-ISMS etc.

Education

• Sri Vidya

  High School

• New Mexico State University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2006 — 2008

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

  2002 — 2006