Rajnish Bhatia

About Rajnish Bhatia

Driving Risk reduction, Controls compliance, Frictionless experiences & Smart Operations with ExcellencePassionate Executive with expertise in securing enterprises through vision development, technology delivery, leadership of global teams, and financial acumen. A strategic thinker and results-oriented leader driven by enabling the business through a customer-centric and risk-prioritized approach. Proven ability to develop strategy, multi-year roadmaps and lead transformational programs to meet strategic, operational, and regulatory goals. Proficient in partnering with C-Suite and Executive Leadership team to build trust, articulate value, and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Skilled in positively influencing Lines of Business for rapid services adoption. Industry recognized leader in Identity & Access Management and an Advisory Board member. Managed budgets up to $65M+ annually and high performing diverse team of 325+ members globally across Strategy, Architecture, Engineering and 24x7 Ops. At Comcast, my role encompasses protecting our global Enterprise, B2B, B2B2C and B2C landscape. Successfully elevated the hybrid ecosystem security posture (Cloud & DC) across infrastructure, applications, products & services, data, device mgmt, identity and access, achieving board committed goals addressing human and non-human digital risks. Spearheading transformational journeys, advancing offensive (Red) and defensive (Blue) security operations, incident mgmt, tiered controls (defense in depth) rollout leveraging industry standards & frameworks like NIST & MITRE, shift left SDL and enabling Zero Trust controls. Building next-gen cutting-edge capabilities to address AI/LLM security leveraging automation and managed AI/NHI/MCP controls. The outcomes reflects a steadfast commitment to proactively reducing blast radius, audit findings, increasing regulatory & privacy compliance and enabling business growth through innovative cyber initiatives. Areas of expertise include:Vision | Technology | Infrastructure | Digital Transformation| Cyber Security | Incident Commander | MISP IOC| C2 IPs|Identity & Access Mgmt| API | Cloud Security | SASE | XDR| DLP| PKI | UAR | Access Controls | SDLC | Entitlement Mgmt| Security Eng. & Ops| Risk, Audit & Compliance| Standards & Policies | Privacy & Data Mgmt| Regulatory Controls| Legal | AI | GRC |Resilience | M&A | Training | Leadership| Communications | Public Speaker| Budget & Vendor Mgmt.| Negotiations | Zero Trust | People Mgmt | Coaching | Mentoring | High Performance Teams | Process Optimization|M&A

Experience

1. Vice President, Cyber Security

   Comcast

   Jun 2021 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   Responsible for overseeing the full range of Cyber Security IAM domains globally across all infrastructure, workforce, applications, and services delivered across Comcast Enterprise and B2B+ relationships. Expanded responsibilities to provide data protection engine, Secret-as-a-Service, M&A risk assessment, strategy and planning, integration and supporting security intelligence, analytics, insider risk, vulnerability management and remediation, security operations and incident management responsibilities as part of Cyber Security Executive Leadership Team. § Secured Transformational program funding and established services roadmap, budgets, forecasts, vendors, contracts, KPIs, engineering and 24x7 global ops (BAU) services. § Built Trust with Leadership, Partners, and Stakeholders to deliver strategic North Star goals§ Enabled state-of-the-art IAM platforms – SailPoint, Okta, RadiantLogic ISPM fabric, to integrate with CyberArk, HashiCorp, Remediant, Splunk, F5, Entra/Azure AD, XDR, API Gateway & custom build services§ Spearhead build and adoption across all critical IAM Tier 0 Control Plane services – Intelligent Identity lifecycle Mgmt, ID Proofing, Privileged Access Mgmt, Key/Secrets Mgmt, SSO, Federation, Tokenization, Certification, Authentications (Adaptive, MFA, OIDC) & Authorization (Coarse & Fine grained), Insider Risk, Fraud & Bot Mgmt.§ Reduced tech debt, retired legacy protocols (ADFS, LDAP, TLS 1.0/1.1) & tools yielding $10m+ from BAU run rate§ Addressing various Security (Blast Radius), Privacy, Compliance, IT & ITDR objectives across full lifecycle management of Users, NHI, Devices, Access, & Applications within Enterprise and Cloud platforms§ Strengthened security posture through incident response, threat intelligence, phishing-resistant MFA, threat modeling, vulnerability mgmt. in alignment with MITRE ATT & CK, NIST, OWASP, and resiliency best practices§ Enable talent mobility and create leadership opportunities for the global team members

Education

• Harvard University

  CS50, Computer Science

  2025

• Delhi University

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Science

• NIIT

  Graduate, Computer Science

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Executive Education - Business Innovation and Applications, Blockchain Technologies

  2018

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Computer Science

Skills

• Siteminder
• Information Security Management
• Information Security
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Risk Management
• Strategy
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Grc
• Risk Assessment
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Pmo
• Leadership
• Application Security Architecture
• Computer Security
• Erp
• Budgeting
• IT Governance
• Process Improvement
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Identity Management
• IT Strategy
• Auditing
• Audit Support
• Role Modeling
• Application Security
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Process Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Cots
• Secure Sdlc
• Budgets
• Application Development
• Governance
• Sox
• Application Architecture
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Role Profiling