Mahesh
Balasubramanyam
Ex.
Cybersecurity & Risk, Sr. Specialist at Government CISA
Verified Expert
Technocrat & Management Professional with Consulting, Auditing & Training Skillsets. 3 decades+ of cross functional experience in diverse industrial verticals, in the areas of Strategic Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Business Consulting, Auditing & Training under various Leadership / Senior Management, Advisory, Auditing, Consulting, Training, Management Rep, Product Development, Research, Customer Support, Marketing/Sales roles to name a few. Established new Product Lines / Professional Services lines, successfully undertook business start-ups and headed companies with full P&L responsibilities.
Accomplished communicator with entrepreneurial expertise, have excelled in Consulting, Auditing & Training with core techno-commercial competencies on GRC & Management System (MS) frameworks (FW’s) & their architecture design, management and maintenance, related to, but not limited to, ISO standards 27001 / BS 7799, ISO 20001 / BS 15000, ISO 9001, ISO 31000, ISO 22301 / BS 25999, PAS99, CCA, including regulatory acts DPA, HIPAA and FDCPA.
Lead Assessor / Auditor & Lead Tutor experience in Certification bodies (BSI & ISC/CP Global LLC), with 4.5 years, leading all types of global audits (internal & external, Risk Audits, etc) against enterprises for above-mentioned standards, acts and FWs.
Possess complete expertise in applying Control Objectives & Controls enterprise-wide for international & home-grown FWs, for all company functions in Cybersecurity, GRC, ERM, ISMS, ITSMS, BCMS, QMS, IMS, Data & Privacy Governance, ITIL, NIST, CoBIT, etc., in most industry types / enterprises, including Governments, Public Utilities, Legal & Regulatory Authorities, BPO's, BFSI, MNC's, ITES-LSI's, MSI's, SMEs, firms, etc..
Have core implementations / advisory expertise in enterprise-wide ERP, Integrated MS, RDBMS, Data lifecycle Mgmt., Data Governance and Web-based training frameworks solutions, with perpetual KPI, KCI & KRI measurements, DQA, SKEA, EFQM, TQM, CMMI –Models, NIST-Information/Cybersecurity, ISR / NESA & other Model FWs, QA & QC techniques, Security & SOA Models, software tools, hardware integration for all types of industry including manufacturing, IT & other labour oriented industries.
As a global resource experienced in multicultural environment, involving plant & facilities, personnel, information systems [S/w & H/w], IT platforms/ technologies, data/information Security, cyber services and business services/processes. Applied project & program management techniques (PMI, Agile, Scrum, Prince 2, etc) for above-mentioned standards, acts and FWs.