Gopinath Kesavan

About Gopinath Kesavan

A seasoned Cyber Security leader professional with the capacity to transform and go beyond technical controls to build a holistic cyber security journey with a proactive defense approach that protects the enterprise. Thought leadership and a Strategic approach to engage the full set of stakeholders and board members to ensure appropriate support and decision-making. Below are some of the on-going activities on a day to day basis to carry forward as part of my professional career: • Practice, Presales and Delivery • Strategic Decision, GTM, P&L, Partnership, Alliance and Marketing • Competitive, Differentiated and Innovative solution offering • R&D, Technologies development & Integration for compelling framework deployment for end to end Cyber Security • Zero Trust Architecture with industry standard principles like SABSA, TOGAF - ESA etc. • Single Pane of Glass approach for IT, OT, IOT and IIOT with all 7 layers of visibility Key Expertise: • Threat Prevention: Firewall, IDS / IPS, Proxy, WAF, Email Security, Endpoint Protection(AV / AM, HIPS, EDR) etc. • Threat Detection: SIEM, EDR, NTA, PCAP, UEBA, Threat Intelligence etc. • Threat Hunting: Analytics, SBDL, MITRE, SIGMA, Blue / Purple & Red Teaming etc. • Security Assurance: Vulnerability Assessment (Infra & APP), Application Security(Threat Modelling, SAST, DAST, etc.) • Identity and Access Management: Identity Governance, Identity Management, Access Management, PIM / PAM, MFA, IDaaS (Adaptive Authentication) and Federation Services • Advanced Threat and Vulnerability Management: Threat Modelling, DevSecops, SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP, Attack surface discovery, Red Teaming, Security Posture Analysis and VAPT etc. • Cloud Security: Azure, AWS, GCP Native Security (Azure Security Center, Sentinel, MCAS, ATP, GuardDuty, AIP, Cloud Watch. BackStory, Armor) etc. • Threat Deception: Sensors / Decoy, HoneyPot etc. • SASE: SWG, SDP, DLP, WAF, DDOS, CASB, FWaaS etc. • Data Security: Discovery, Classification, DLP, FIM, DRM, Encryption, anonymization / pseudonymization etc. Enterprise Mobility Management, OT / IOT: Product Security, Access Control, Diodes etc. • OT / IoT / IIoT Security: Access Control, Embedded Adaptive access control, Product Security, Data integrity, Segmentation, Continuous Threat Detection, Deception, Intelligence • Forensics: E-Discovery, Disk Forensic, Malware Analysis, CISRT etc. • Compliance, Framework & Standards: Audit and Assurance, UL CAP, ISA / IEC 62443, PCI-DSS, ISMS, QMS, BCMS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171 etc. Regulatory & Statutory: GDPR, CCPA, NERC, MITRE, SIGMA etc.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President

   HDFC Bank

   Aug 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science

  2001 — 2004

• Ulyanovsk State University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Project Management

  2012 — 2013