Ranjit Rasappan

About Ranjit Rasappan

Ranjit Rasappan, is an IT professional with 15 years of thought leadership experience, working with the CIO organization, leading digital transformation efforts in Cyber security, Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, Cloud Threat Modelling, Vendor Risk Management and Software development.Direct leadership experience with providing consulting, security risk scenario oversight, building security alignment across cloud and development teams, product management, cross-functional partners, and challenging status-quo to inspire towards a higher outcome.Driven by an Architecture builder culture; with focus on collaborating with teams of Cloud, Risk management, Business, Product, and Operations into a collaborative shared responsibility paradigm to address near, mid, and far-term known and unknown needs- Act as a Trusted Advisor to both the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and strategic partners- Managed security teams and provided security architecture and risk management by creating security requirements to address critical risks- Function as a technical acumen to define and develop security roadmap, reference architectures, threat modelling BCP/DR, governance, compliance, and risk management- Subject matter expert on cloud security AWS, GCP-Google Cloud, Salesforce, and Azure; ensuring cloud security posture management- Partnered with business stakeholders to establish Shift-Left security to embed security into application development including Threat modeling, Risk assessment, Penetration tests,(SAST/DAST, SCA, CI/CD scans), DevOps pipelines and risk-remediation- Led Risk assessment including best practices such as PCI DSS, SOC2, OWASP, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, CIS, and COBIT- Experience in enabling cybersecurity initiatives involving Cryptography, CASB Technologies, Microservices Kubernetes, Network, Infrastructure, Open-Source, DevSecOps, Databases, Application Security, DLP, SIEM-Security Operations, Incident Response- Championed and instituted Vendor Risk Management program and Data protection Addendums (DPA) reviews- Performed Security Design and Build assessments- Experience in bringing a level of maturity around costs for scale into the evaluation at the POC\'s- Security frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, SABSA, BISSM, MITRE ATT & CK, to provide architectural oversight- Led Identity and Access Management (IAM) program included Privileged Access Management, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO)- Co-authored HP’s “CSA Cloud Security alliance STAR registry”,

Experience

1. Information Security Advisor - Director Security Architecture

   TTEC

   May 2023 — Present · US

Education

• Boston University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services

  2021 — 2023

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  1997 — 2002

• National Law School of India University

  Post Graduation Diploma (PGD), Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics

  2013 — 2018

Skills

• Risk Assessment
• Vpn
• Checkpoint
• Security Architecture Design
• Business Continuity
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Information Security Management
• Penetration Testing
• Infrastructure
• Data Privacy
• Identity Management
• Information Technology
• Cobit 5
• Information Security
• Pci Dss
• Cloud Security
• Risk Management
• Cyber Security
• Security Audits
• Itil
• IT Audit
• Siem
• Network Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Application Security
• Cissp
• Security
• Business Continuity Planning
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Iso 27001
• Ips
• Cobit
• Ceh
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Computer Security