Bhavani Thungathurthi

About Bhavani Thungathurthi

Highly accomplished and results-driven Director of Security Engineering with a proven…

Experience

1. Director, Principal Security Engineering Manager, Microsoft Co i, Cyber Defense

   Microsoft

   Jun 2021 — Present

   Assembled and led greenfield team of security engineers from inception to maturity. Security design, deploy and support throughout the Azure DCs across the globe to secure physical security and IOT network. Team responsible includes design, deploy and support of firewalls, IPS, IDS, Cloud security, Threat, and Identity management solutions. Developed security strategy, organizational design, recruit engineers and driven the design and deployment of Azure physical security isolated network based on Zero Trust architecture. Designed and sustained incident and problem management processes, contributed to agile/scrum procedures, setup team management policies. Successfully manage and allocate budgets of up to $10 million annually, optimizing resource utilization, and consistently delivering projects on time and within budget constraints. Created team security roadmaps and maturity strategies for continuous measurement and improvement. Stakeholder communication within and outside the organization to establish relationships, develop shared roadmaps, influence, and drive strategies. Coached directs and team members including engineers and managers, performance management and promotion of employees. Organization responsibilities include defensive security architecture, vulnerability assessments, threat detection and response, Security incident management, SIEM and security automation.

Skills

• Network Engineering
• Vendor Management
• Virtualization
• Cisco Systems Products
• Data Center
• Network Security
• Solution Architecture
• People Management