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Nikhil Prabhu

Nikhil Prabhu

Cyber GRC Consultant
Pune

Summary

As a CISSP certified, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, I help organizations operationalize GRC frameworks that minimize legal and financial liabilities, while building stakeholder trust and brand equity. My practical approaches to cyber resilience and risk optimization reduce regulatory fatigue, while preventing costly business interruptions and lost opportunities, while maintaining compliance.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

GRC Consultant

GlobalLogic (Hitachi Digital Engineering)
06.2024 - 01.2026

• Applied HIPAA, HITRUST, DICOM, and ISO 27001/NIST CSF frameworks to manage risk, compliance, and security controls across PACS and medical imaging environments; owned policy lifecycle from drafting and review through exception handling and periodic refresh.

• Built and maintained risk registers for medical imaging infrastructure — assessing inherent/residual risk to patient data and system availability, driving risk treatment plans, and translating findings into exec-level reporting aligned with FDA medical device cybersecurity guidance.

• Performed control assessments, maturity evaluations, and gap identification mapped to ISO 27001 and NIST CSF; coordinated evidence across stakeholders for surveillance audits and regulatory inspections, maintaining zero major findings.

• Conducted third-party risk assessments for SaaS providers processing PHI, evaluating data protection, retention, and access controls against HIPAA standards and enforcing security obligations through provider audits.

GRC Analyst

Deloitte (Big 4, Consulting, Audit & Assurance, RA, Tax)
08.2020 - 05.2024
  • Policy Modernization & Lifecycle Management, Third-Party Risk Assessment, Audit Coordination & Evidence Management, CAPA and Remediation

• Developed and maintained Information Security Policy suite aligned with ISO 27001 A.5.1 (Acceptable Use, cloud/BYOD controls); tracked policy exception requests, risk acceptances, and control deficiencies

• Managed ISO 27001 transition from 2013 to 2022 standards across the enterprise: mapped 93 controls, identified 12 gaps (A.5.23 cloud services, A.8.9 configuration management), and built an evidence-linked SharePoint SoA that reduced audit prep time by 40%.

• Built and managed technology risk registers; performed annual internal control assessments and maturity re-evaluations mapped to ISO 27001 Annex A, driving risk-based remediation with assigned ownership and closure timelines.

• Served as primary liaison for ISO 27001 external audits with BSI, coordinating evidence across 8 stakeholders and sustaining zero major findings.

• Conducted vendor risk assessments for SaaS providers processing PHI, enforced contractual security clauses, and managed CAPA workflows — drafting corrective actions within 48 hours and closing nonconformities within 90-day windows to maintain continuous certification.

Product Evangelist

AnalysticsBI (UK Social Analytics Startup)
04.2017 - 07.2020

UK Social Care comprehensive application. ISO/IEC 27701/27002. GDPR compliance.

Key Responsibilities

UI/UX consulting, Testing, Business Analysis, Technical/Content Writing, Website, Project Management, Client Account Management, Pre-Sales & Support. Drafting ISMS. ISO/IEC 27001 internal audit.

Technologies

MySQL, Application Support, Scrum, Project Management, CAM, Pre-Sales, Support, Excel

Business Analyst

DirecTV (now AT&T, Media & Communications)
02.2010 - 03.2017
  • Set top box interactive application products. Broadcast support. Weekly ad unit building & delivery, generating~$50k every week in revenue
  • Managed advertising product portfolio generating ~$50k weekly revenue
  • Maintained client SLAs and vendor relationships while ensuring timely ad unit delivery
  • Created business requirement documents and managed post-production support
  • Collaborated with business process owners to optimize advertising workflows

Education

Master of Science - Materials Science And Engineering

University of Delaware
Newark, DE
04.2001 -

Skills

Professional Services

Customer Success

Cyber Security GRC

AI, Risk & Project Management

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor

Security Controls

Agile Scrum Ex-PMP

Business Analysis

BRD FRD Requirements

Community & Personal

Volunteer with non-profit ConnectFor. Regular plogger, perform clean-up on hiking trails, next Himalayas; Trekking, camping, bouldering, traveling, running, ruminating philosophy

Timeline

GRC Consultant

GlobalLogic (Hitachi Digital Engineering)
06.2024 - 01.2026

GRC Analyst

Deloitte (Big 4, Consulting, Audit & Assurance, RA, Tax)
08.2020 - 05.2024

Product Evangelist

AnalysticsBI (UK Social Analytics Startup)
04.2017 - 07.2020

Business Analyst

DirecTV (now AT&T, Media & Communications)
02.2010 - 03.2017

Master of Science - Materials Science And Engineering

University of Delaware
04.2001 -
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