Cherian Mathew

Professional Abstract

Have more than 30+ years’ experience in IT with the last 4 years in IT Audit, Cyber Security, ISMS, Application and GDPR Implementation and certified in CISA, CEH, ITIL V3, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft Certified Professional and PRINCE2.
Conducting Risk Management sessions aimed at achieving an optimal balance between realizing business opportunity for gain and minimizing impact of threats exploiting vulnerability is within acceptable limits and acceptable cost.
Enforcement of Compliance and Governance in Information Security Projects, ensuring compliance with the existing Standards, laws and regulations, adopting different standards and frameworks to achieve the desired state, implementing policy-based controls.
Providing value delivery and meaningful metrics where security investments are optimized in support of organizational objectives, defining KPI, KGI and Balance scorecard to monitor and track the progress of the project and ensuring organizational milestones and objectives are being met.
Skilled in leading SAP implementation , Upgrade & Unicode Migration Project, DR implementation using Oracle Data Guard, Optimization & Performance of ECC systems and providing support for large SAP landscape having Oracle and Hana DB systems.

InfoSec Governance Experience

Providing Virtual CISO services to various Clients
Performed SAP Reengineering project in Performance Optimization & Security
Building an Information Security Strategy with long term Objectives in terms of a Desired state of Security and how to accomplish it by bridging the gaps
Conducting assessments for Data Privacy & Protection and suggest the remediation plan to the clients
Implementation of ISMS, ITSM, BCMS for various Clients
Providing a holistic and encompassing approach where Information Security is pervasive across the Organization and Governance to integrate assurance functions with minimal disruption and acceptable cost
Conduct compliance audits for various regulations viz. IRDAI (Cyber Security, ISNP), SEBI, RBI, NBFC etc. and Warehouses and Data Center
Conducted several IT & Internal Audits, ITGC, & Application Audits, SAP Audits for Security & Systems
Provided awareness Sessions on Cyber Security, ISMS, BCMS, ITSMS, GDPR

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