PCIP

PCI QSA

MVP Alumni

CISSP

Diploma

Graduation

Masters

Contributing as an editor covering latest consumer technology news.

http://techie-buzz.com/author/manan

Editor - Microsoft Channel

At Deloitte, I worked with executives to develop strategies and roadmaps that enabled secure business operations and mitigated business risks arising due to technology. I worked with clients across industries - pharma manufacturer, hospitality, public sector etc.  

- Led development of risk management frameworks, organization risk assessments, and developed strategic remediation roadmaps 
- Worked closely with IT Risk Management leadership for a Fortune 500 pharma manufacturer to develop roadmap and strategy to secure IT operations through new internal processes, technologies, and external vendor support 
- Managed delivery of strategy and roadmap to the CTO at a Fortune 500 hospitality client to enable secure operations at corporate and restaurants locations 
- Led execution of comprehensive strategy to address IT risks for a system processing health benefits for a State Department of Health and Human Services 
- Responsible for maintaining and developing client relations for the ser

Risk Strategy Consultant

• Provided guidance to a class of 30 students in the Information Analysis of Systems Organization course
• Evaluated and graded student assignments on creating Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams

Teaching Assistant

• Prepared solicitation draft to outline the organization’s charter and brainstorm ideas to promote the student organization
• Designed and developed website for the organization using HTML, PHP and Wordpress

Business Analyst

I covered events for the School of Information Studies (iSchool) for the school website and was a contributing author for the school's technology blog

https://ischool.syr.edu/author/manankakkar/

Columnist

• Working on the School of Information Studies alumni databases that use ACT! and Sungard BSR.
• Reconcile alumni information of over 1000 alumni members between two databases 
• Conduct additional research on alumni status and activities

Data Analyst

- Started a new online edition covering developments in the rapidly growing Indian IT industry and how they impact global market
- Built audience and readership through marketing on social media 
- Published over 140 articles on topics such as product strategies and reviews, mergers and acquisitions and other developments across the enterprise and consumer IT industry

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/

Technology Columnist

• Build test environment for clients based on specific requirements and help in migrating existing client databases
• Documenting requirements to decommission more than 35 ancillary applications
• Assist in preparing a plan to decommission ancillary applications and deploy new health records management suite

Business Analyst Intern

At EY, I’m part of a growing team that is building a new competency and market offering on cybersecurity within EY's Transaction Advisory group 

- Developing go-to market strategies, identifying opportunities to grow the M&A cybersecurity  offering, building and managing relationships  
- Managing vendor relations and onboarding vendors to support the new offering
- Conducted 35+ buy-side cyber due diligence on targets across manufacturing, entertainment, eCommerce, financial services, healthcare, automotive, transportation, critical infrastructure, hospitality, Internet of Things (IoT) industries
- Identify deferred one-time costs to be considered as net debt and recurring expenses to be considered as a reduction to EBITDA during deal negotiation
- Developed sell-side  cyber diligence framework for divestitures (full enterprise sale, carve-outs, and spin-offs)
- Developed secure integration approach for acquisitions 
- Developed playbooks for cyber due diligence to identify material 

Transaction Cybersecurity Manager

Guide CISOs in designing and developing a cybersecurity organization, cyber operating models, develop cyber budget models through transactions such as divestitures / spin offs

Transaction Cybersecurity Senior Manager

Podcast co-host, handling post production. https://mstalkinblog.wordpress.com/

Co-host

Cybersecurity Executive Director

Work with CIOs and CISOs on IT and Cybersecurity due diligence, operating model design and transformations triggered by a transaction

Transaction Strategy and Execution Senior Director

Lead the Cybersecurity Attack Surface Security Engineering, Software Security (DevSecOps), Strategy, Governance, Risk, and Compliance.

Focused on risk-based strategy and prioritized execution of bodies of work that reduce cyber risk across Providence's 52 hospitals and 1000+ clinics.

Cybersecurity AVP

Building tools using AI. Current projects:
- CyberPrism.App - flagship product for Cybersecurity professionals. The only mobile app in the market that tracks Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities, uses AI to map these to industry frameworks, maps threat actors to vulnerabilities they exploit
- AI-powered Team Exercises - Our first B2B SaaS product for facilitating corporate team building exercises TeamExercises.App
- Nginx Proxy Manager Mobile Dashboard - our mobile app for homelab enthusiasts and IT professionals using Nginx Proxy Manager
- Snack Spinner - our mobile game geared to expose the concepts of healthy eating to children
- Inflated - a web app to compare grocery inflation within Instacart orders

Vibecoder

Vibe coder and home labber

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