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Certification
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Harikrishnan S

Harikrishnan S

Information Security and Banking Technology Professional
Manimangalam, Koorali PO, Kottayam

Summary

Professional with expertise in Information Security, Banking IT Project Governance & Project Management, Data Centre Management, Disaster recovery, Digital Transformation initiatives, financial inclusion, Audits and compliance with 18 years of experience, delivering problem-solving situations with an analytical and driven mindset .

Next 100 CIO Award Winner for 2023.

Rising star CIO of the Year (Banking)- krypton group

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
15
15
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Assistant General Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2025 - Current

Handling the role of Deputy CISO

Assisting CISO in framing information Security Policy and strategy

Managing the day to operations of CISO Office

Managing the Governance , Risk and Compliance (GRC) function

Overseeing the SOC monitoring and Incident Response

Managing the security Assessment and Vulnerability management port folio

Information Security Training and Awareness sessions

Handling New initiatives for enhancing security posture

Coordinating and handling various Board and Executive Sterring Committees

Chief Manager - Information Security Group

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
07.2024 - Current

Second Line to CISO

Deputy Head for Information Security Group

SOC Monitoring and Incident Management

Governance Risk and Compliance

Security Assessment

Managing an information Security team of 25 members

Chief Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
7 2021 - 07.2024
  • Head - IT strategy
  • Developing IT Strategy and implementation roadmap
  • Transforming business by leveraging appropriate technology
  • IT Governance
  • Established IT Project management framework
  • Identification of new Solutions as required by Business
  • Cloud migration strategy
  • Digital Banking strategy

Senior Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2014 - 06.2021

Senior Manager - Data Center

  • Team head for Non core applications
  • Data Center Management
  • Maintenance and support of 70 plus Non core applications
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Audits and Regulatory Compliance
  • TPOC for UIDAI
  • CBS Application Support and EOD BOD operations
  • BCP and DR drills
  • Implementation of Information Security Solutions
  • Digital Transformation project

Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2009 - 04.2014

Manager at Disaster recovery Site

  • Backup and Recovery
  • DR infra management
  • DR drills and BCP
  • Storage and server Administration.

Assistant Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
03.2007 - 04.2009

Assistant Manger - IT Department

  • AMC and Vendor Management
  • Networking
  • Procurements and Payments

Education

MTech Embedded Systems - Embedded Systems

SASTRA Deemed University
Thanjavur
08.2005 - 03.2007

BTech - Electronics And Instrumentation - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

College of Engineering KIdangoor
Kidangoor
06.2000 - 08.2004

Skills

Information security

Governance Risk and Compliance

Application Security

Monitoring and Incident Management

Training and Awareness

Data Center Management

Audit and compliance

Project governance

BCP and DR

IT operations

Change management

Team Management

IT Governance

Digital Transformation

Cloud Hosting

Application Support

IT and Digital Strategy

Accomplishments

Vulnerability Management Program

GRC tool implementation

Cloud Security

Core Banking Version Migration project - Non core system Integration

Aaadhar Vault Implementation

New ESB Solution

Whatsapp Banking

Interactive AI/ML enabled chatbot

Cloud Migration Strategy

Treasury Software Migration

NPCI Projects

IDM Solution implementation

Certification

DCPP

Timeline

CPISI

11-2025

Assistant General Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2025 - Current

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 AIMS Lead Auditor Certificate

03-2025

ISO 22301:2019 BCMS Lead Auditor Certificate.

12-2024

Chief Manager - Information Security Group

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
07.2024 - Current

CISA

01-2024

Certified In CyberSecurity

11-2023

Foundations Of Project management

11-2023

ISO27701 Lead Auditor

10-2023

Certified Data Protection Officer

09-2023

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 LA

08-2023

DCPP

05-2022

EU GDPR Practicioner

01-2021

PCI DSS V3.21 Implementer

07-2020

ITIL V4 Foundation

01-2020

Risk in Financial Services (L1)

09-2018

Prevention of Cybercrimes and fraud management

07-2016

Senior Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2014 - 06.2021

Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
04.2009 - 04.2014

Assistant Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
03.2007 - 04.2009

MTech Embedded Systems - Embedded Systems

SASTRA Deemed University
08.2005 - 03.2007

BTech - Electronics And Instrumentation - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

College of Engineering KIdangoor
06.2000 - 08.2004

Chief Manager

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
7 2021 - 07.2024
Harikrishnan SInformation Security and Banking Technology Professional