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Virtual CISO  ·  Enterprise Security Leadership

Himanshu Jain

Security posture, proven — not just documented.

15+ years turning threat landscapes into board-level risk narratives and investment-prioritised roadmaps — pairing governance rigour with modern, automation-led delivery across cloud, Zero Trust, identity, and detection & response.

Years
15+
Years leading enterprise & regulated security
Endpoints
10K+
Endpoints under EDR / XDR deployment
Misconfigs
70%
Cloud misconfig reduction in 90 days
Audit findings
0
Major findings across PwC & EY audits
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Profile

Who I am

Cybersecurity leader with 15+ years across enterprise and highly regulated environments — combining executive security strategy with hands-on architecture.

Experienced in standing up and running security programmes — owning enterprise risk, ISO 27001 / NIST CSF-aligned governance, regulatory compliance, and multi-vendor / MSSP oversight. Proven delivery across cloud (AWS, Azure, hybrid), Zero Trust, identity, and detection & response for government, healthcare, financial-services, and critical-infrastructure-adjacent clients across Asia-Pacific and India.

Governance at the board

Security operating models and governance frameworks — policy, risk registers, control baselines and audit readiness — for organisations that need CISO-level leadership.

Automation at pace

AI-powered security accelerators and multi-agent workflows that compress cloud assessments and posture hardening from months to days — enterprise assurance at lower cost.

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Core competencies

Where I operate
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Security Strategy & vCISO Leadership

Operating model, roadmap and budget — CISO-level direction that maps security investment to enterprise risk.

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Governance, Risk & Compliance

ISO 27001 · NIST CSF · King IV · POPIA — control baselines, risk registers and audit readiness.

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Enterprise & Cloud Security Architecture

AWS · Azure · hybrid · multi-cloud — secure-by-design landing zones, segmentation and encryption.

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Identity & Access Management

IAM · PAM · PIM · hybrid identity — federation, least privilege and privileged-access governance.

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Threat Detection & Response

SIEM · SOAR · XDR/EDR · IR playbooks — telemetry, automation and measurable MTTD reduction.

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Zero Trust & Network Security

Micro-segmentation · ZTNA · segmentation — cutting lateral movement across the estate.

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OT / ICS & Critical Infrastructure

IT/OT convergence and risk governance for critical-infrastructure-adjacent environments.

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Vendor, MSSP & Programme Governance

Multi-vendor operations, audits and SLAs — holding an ecosystem to a single standard.

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AI Security & Automation

LLM security · Bedrock · reusable security accelerators — assurance built with multi-agent AI.

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Selected engagements

Outcomes, not activity
Healthcare · Government · Singapore

Zero-tolerance estate under the Ministry of Health

Led security programme delivery and multi-vendor governance for IHiS in one of the most tightly regulated healthcare environments in APAC — policy, risk and compliance oversight across the estate.

Regulated zero-toleranceMulti-vendor governance
Financial services · Government · Singapore

Audit-clean security operations at national scale

Directed IT security operations for Singapore's financial and government programmes at NCS — ISMS audits, vendor governance and vulnerability management, with PCI DSS and AGO compliance.

0 major findings — PwC & EYPCI DSS + AGO
Enterprise · Hybrid cloud

Cloud posture turned around in one quarter

Architected cloud-native CSPM for a hybrid AWS estate and rolled out EDR/XDR with policy automation and threat-intel integration across the endpoint fleet, with micro-segmentation cutting lateral-movement risk.

−70% misconfigs / 90 days−60% lateral movement10K+ endpoints
Hospitality · Global (US)

End-to-end network security for a global chain

Ran end-to-end network security for a US-based global hospitality chain — Checkpoint, Cisco and Palo Alto firewall estates, VPNs, and incident and change management under PCI compliance.

PCI compliance3 firewall estates
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Certifications

Credentialed across the stack

AWS Amazon Web Services

Security Specialty2025AI Practitioner2025Solutions Architect – AssociateSysOps Administrator

AZ Microsoft Azure

AZ-500 Security Engineer2025SC-300 Identity2022AZ-900 FundamentalsSC-900 Security & Compliance

+ Specialist & Vendor

CCSP2025ISO 42001 AI Lead Implementer2025CCNP SecurityPalo Alto ACECHFICyberArkOracle CloudAlibaba ACA
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Professional experience

15+ years · 7 organisations
'25
Wipro Connected Services
Cybersecurity Sr. Architect
Formerly Harman Connected Services
  • Own enterprise cloud & AI security strategy across hybrid multi-cloud — setting the operating model and governance direction (Zero Trust, CNAPP, AI security) and reporting risk posture at board level.
  • SPOC for the cybersecurity partner ecosystem — executive relationships, term negotiation, roadmap alignment, and joint GTM motions that expanded service revenue.
  • Evaluated and integrated AI security posture, hybrid identity, and XDR platforms — reducing MTTD and strengthening board-level risk posture.
  • Building reusable AWS Security Accelerators with multi-agent AI — automated assessment engines, Landing Zone hardening blueprints, and LLM security reference architectures.
Jan 2025 — Present
'23
Persistent Systems
Sr. Cloud Security Architect
  • Designed and optimised security architectures for large-scale cloud transformation — authoritative SME for cloud-native security, identity, and threat management.
  • Directed Threat & Risk Assessments (TRA), translating findings into C-suite risk narratives and investment-prioritised remediation roadmaps.
  • Led EDR/XDR deployment across 10,000+ endpoints (CrowdStrike / SentinelOne) — policy, automation, threat-intel integration, and IR playbooks.
  • Architected cloud-native CSPM for hybrid AWS — reduced misconfigurations by 70% in 90 days; micro-segmentation cut lateral-movement risk by 60%.
  • Delivered multi-cloud frameworks (AWS + Azure) and drove pre-sales that converted into multi-crore mandates.
Jan 2023 — Jan 2025
'21
Zensar Technologies
Cloud Security Architect
  • Designed cloud-native posture management for a hybrid Azure AD + on-prem environment, reducing misconfigurations by 70%.
  • Deployed an EDR strategy across 10,000+ endpoints using CrowdStrike, with policy automation and threat-intel integration.
  • Guided Zscaler ZTNA deployment for 5,000+ users.
May 2021 — Jan 2023
'20
IHiS
Cybersecurity Manager
Ministry of Health, Singapore
  • Led security programme delivery and multi-vendor governance in a highly regulated, zero-tolerance environment under Singapore's Ministry of Health.
  • Owned policy, risk and compliance oversight across the estate.
Aug 2020 — Feb 2021
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NCS Pte. Ltd.
IT Security Manager
  • Led AWS cloud transition — secure multi-account environments (IAM, VPC, Organizations, CloudFront); ISMS audits, vendor governance, and vulnerability management.
  • Directed IT security operations for Singapore's financial and government programmes — zero major findings across PwC and EY audits; PCI DSS and AGO compliance.
  • Managed Tripwire, RSA MFA, McAfee DLP, Imperva WAF, and CyberArk PAM.
Nov 2017 — Jul 2020
'16
HCL Infra Ltd.
Network Security Sr. Specialist
  • Led a 7-member network security team; multi-site IDS/IPS and firewall deployments.
  • F5 LTM, Cisco / Palo Alto rule optimisation, VPN, and SSL lifecycle management.
Aug 2016 — Nov 2017
'12
Dell International Services
Network Security Senior Analyst
  • End-to-end network security for a US-based global hospitality chain — firewalls (Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto), VPNs, PCI compliance, and incident / change management.
Feb 2012 — Jul 2016
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Education

Foundation
Amity University
MSc. Network Technology & Management · Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
MSc · BCA
Available for vCISO & advisory engagements

Make your security posture a board-level asset.

Fractional CISO leadership, cloud & AI security architecture, and audit readiness for regulated organisations.