Mahakpreet Bhatia

About Mahakpreet Bhatia

A highly skilled cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in delivering and…

Experience

1. Security Assessor - Security, Risk & Compliance (Src)

   Amazon

   Jul 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Drive security assurance initiatives for Amazon Stores, Digital & Others (SDO) businesses, with a focus on compliance across payment and healthcare regulations (PAPG, UPI, PPI, NYDFS, GLBA, HIPAA, MAS).Key Responsibilities and Project Highlights include:1) Ensure Amazon businesses comply with security regulations, policies, and Amazon’s high security bar by creating, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining of Security policies, standards and controls. 2) Perform control testing for regulatory in-scope services against regulatory standards, and industry recognized security frameworks, to identify and remediate findings in collaboration with tech teams3) Engagement lead for various compliance engagements such as PAPG, UPI, IRCTC4) Performed 30+ security and compliance assessments across multiple in-scope regimes and financial products such as PAPG, PPI, UPI, IRCTC regulations5) Implemented new data model in Service Now tool, redesigning existing tool architecture to enhance efficiency and automation, reducing assessor and application team effort by up to 3,500 hours annually. 6) Successfully contributed as SME in critical Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulatory audits for Payment Aggregator (PA) and Prepaid Instruments (PPI) licenses.7) Leading the Security Control Monitoring Automation (SCMA) program at Amazon for automated control testing which has already led to a time savings of 4.05 FTE years while reducing manual errors by ~20%

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Shillong

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management

• National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

  B.Tech, Civil Engineering

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Data Analysis
• Management
• Microsoft Word
• Sql
• Microsoft Office