Arasiyazhini Murugan
Cyber Security Lead Consultant
Ypsilanti,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Experienced Cyber Security Consultant with over 12+ years of experience in Governance Risk and Compliance Practice with diversified experience in the domain of Vendor Risk Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Management, Security Governance, Third Party Risk Assessment, Audit Planning and Management, Anti Money Laundering and Legal Entity Management. Responsible for delivering GRC consulting and Cyber Risk advisory services to Fortune 500 clients.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificate
Work History
Cybersecurity Lead - GRC Consultant - Apple
Infosys Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2020 - Current
- Performing third party risks assessment on behalf of Apple over outsourced processes.
- Successfully completed risk assessment for over 25 suppliers in 2 quarters. Our team completed 240 assessment in total over 2 quarters. Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Assessing findings and articulating risks to suppliers in context of Apple's risk management framework and recommend areas of improvement.
- Identify opportunities to improve risk posture, developing solutions for remediating or mitigating risks and assessing residual risk.
- Communicated risks identified for 25 suppliers to improve their overall InfoSec posture.
- Worked closely with supplier's CISO and Information Security team to provide remediation plan for risks identified. Offered friendly and efficient service to customer and suppliers, handled challenging situations with ease.
- Experience in handling key activities of audit life cycle: scoping, planning, fieldwork execution, reporting, QA and issues tracking.
- Contribute to Cyber assessment metrics and GRC reporting to senior management to influence risk based results.
- Using Tableau prepare country wise supplier risk assessment posture which was presented to Apple management team.
- Supervised work of junior employees to keep on task for timely completion.
Cyber Security GRC Consultant - American Express
Infosys Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2017 - 09.2020
- Plan and Manage Internal and external audit such as ISO 27001,ISO 22301,SOC2,Physical Security Audit, ISMS Audit and Risk Management and Assessment for financial client with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure business continuity for financial client is maintained as per ISO 22301 standards. Business continuity plan is updated and tested at regular intervals.
- Ensure risk management for financial client and streamline onboarding and off boarding process as per ISO 27001 standards.
- Ensure MSA obligations related to Information Security, Data Privacy, Service level Agreement are tracked and closed as per standards.
- Was involved in mobilizing all account members during COVID pandemic situation.
- Manage setting up new ODC for financial client across locations along with locations anchors.
- Ensure Information Security standards, Network security standards, Data Privacy standards are compliant as per Physical site review tracker shared by client for any new ODC setup.
- Ensure ODC compliance by performing access review across locations for all off boarded resources.
Consultant - Legal Entity Management - Citigroup
Infosys Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
07.2016 - 07.2017
- Worked as Business Analyst for, Legal Entity Management Systems, single strategic solution used for creation, modification and dissolution of Citigroup legal entities.
- Responsibilities include, Review FRD developed by Management Consulting Team and Review Test scripts developed by SIT team
- Explain BRD and FRD to SIT & development team and prepare Requirement traceability Matrix from FRD and verify if all requirements are covered in test scripts.
- Prepare use cases for Banking Problems where Robotic Process Automation can be used for automating and solving problems.
- Prepare graphical representation of use cases which can be used for presenting and implementation of solution.
- Conducted thorough reviews of technology operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies, facilitating consistent changes to documentation.
- Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
- Collaborated with cross functional team to develop and shape processes and strategies.
- Conferred with existing and potential customers to assess requirements and propose optimal solutions.
Business Analyst Consultant - Citigroup
Infosys limited
Tampa, Florida
07.2015 - 07.2016
- Worked as SME for User acceptance testing in, Anti money laundering project in Client location(Tampa, USA)
- Responsibilities include Performing user acceptance testing in AML application and closely work with AML Operations and QA team
- Prepare requirement traceability for UAT team and coordinate with operations team in UAT testing process
- With strong knowledge on SQL querying manage and track validation queries used for AML UAT.
- Worked one-on-one with clients to improve test specifications.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and propose options to rectify operational inefficiencies.
- Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
Lead Business Analyst Consultant - Citigroup
Infosys Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12.2008 - 06.2015
- Handling business operations queries and solve day to day queries from customers and partners. Carry out root cause analysis and suggest remedial actions in case of business outages.
- Analyze critical production issues and help in simulating them in production grade environment on on-demand basis. This involves setting up of environment, deployment of applications, starting of servers and applications in addition to testing business function.
- Provided liquidity and cash management operational support for high-volume financial institution in fast-paced 24-hour work environment.
- Managing and categorizing defects raised in production, liaise with stakeholders and keep incident management system up to date.
- Analyze AWR report for long running SQL and work with DBA in SQL tuning. Compare performance of system with production values and report any degradation in system behavior. Carry out performance testing for end of day reconciliation for liquidity application
- Perform functional testing and support system integration testing team with environment and database setup and deployment.
Carry out stress and load testing to measure resilience and throughput of system and report to client on any outages. - Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations
Education
Certificate Program - Data Science & Business Analytics
05.2020 - 03.2021
Master Of Business - Engineering Management
07.2012 - 11.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
09.2004 - 04.2008
Skills
Supplier Risk Assessment and Management
Governance and Compliance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Data Science using Python
Business Analytics
Scrum Methodologies
ISO 27001,ISO 22301 & SOX compliance
Information Security Management
Banking - Liquidity management, Anti Money Laundering, Legal Entity Management Concepts
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
CQI and IRCA Certified BCMS ISO 22301:2019 Lead Auditor (Business Continuity Management Systems)
05-2021
Certificate Program: Data Science & Business Analytics
03-2021
Cybersecurity Lead - GRC Consultant - Apple - Infosys Limited
10.2020 - Current
Great Learning - Certificate Program, Data Science & Business Analytics
05.2020 - 03.2021
Certified Scrum Master
04-2020
Cyber Security GRC Consultant - American Express - Infosys Limited
08.2017 - 09.2020
Consultant - Legal Entity Management - Citigroup - Infosys Limited
07.2016 - 07.2017
Business Analyst Consultant - Citigroup - Infosys limited
07.2015 - 07.2016
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY - Master Of Business, Engineering Management
07.2012 - 11.2014
Lead Business Analyst Consultant - Citigroup - Infosys Limited
12.2008 - 06.2015
Anna University - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics And Communications Engineering
09.2004 - 04.2008