Balakrishnan Natarajan

About Balakrishnan Natarajan

Cybersecurity and Privacy professional with 20+ years experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Implemented and managed global GRC programs to comply with legal and contractual requirements. Managed a team of security and privacy professionals on SOX, ISO27001, PCI, SOC-1 and SOC-2 engagements. Managed GRC programs with team size ranging between 4 and 35 members and budget ranging between $2-5 million.Specialties: Privacy (GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, LGPD), SOX, HIPAA, ISO27001, ISO27017, ISO27701, IT Audit, Risk Assessment, Third Party Risk Management, NIST CSF, IPO readiness, CMMC, Application Security Assessment, Contract Reviews, Data Governance, Security Policies and Standards, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning, Security maturity benchmarking

Experience

1. Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance

   PsiQuantum

   Apr 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Lead the Governance, Risk and Compliance efforts at PsiQuantum

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting

  1998 — 2001

• Information Systems Audit and Control Association

  CISM, Information Security Management

  2006 — 2006

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  Master's degree, Accounting, Finance, Audit and Costing

  1999 — 2002

• The Institute Of Internal Auditors

  CIA, Auditing, Accounting, Business Laws, Communication

  2007 — 2007

• Colorado Board of Accountancy

  CPA, Audit, Accounting, Financial Management

  2006 — 2006

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  DISA (ICAI), Information Systems Audit

  2003 — 2003

• ISACA

  CISA, Information Systems Audit

  2004 — 2004

• The Institute Of Internal Auditors

  CCSA (Inactive), Controls Self Assessment

  2007 — 2007

Skills

• Financial Accounting
• IT Governance
• Audit
• Process Improvement
• Information Security Management
• Risk Assessment
• Compliance
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Pci Dss
• Accounting
• Internal Audit
• Sas70
• Financial Analysis
• Information Technology
• Risk Mitigation
• Operational Risk Management
• Auditing
• Financial Risk
• Internal Controls
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Fraud
• Corporate Governance
• Risk Management
• Risk
• Security
• Iso 27001
• IT Risk
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Itgc
• Financial Modeling
• Compliance Management
• Information Security
• IT Audit
• Business Analysis
• Sox
• Cobit
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Financial Reporting