Nikhil Kumar Garg

Started - Senior Consultant 2

Current - Manager

Business Role.

• Spearheaded the management of key client accounts, serving as a trusted advisor to guide organizations through comprehensive IT security transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise security architecture frameworks.
• Led business development efforts by authoring and overseeing high-value proposals and RFPs (worth millions) in the areas of security architecture and endpoint security, achieving a strong win rate.
• Developed and executed tailored account strategies to meet vertical-specific goals, supporting revenue growth, and delivering on key performance metrics.
• Led the development and presentation of daily, weekly, and monthly cybersecurity governance reports, highlighting key insights, and enabling pipeline expansion with executive leadership.
• Led security architecture initiatives aligned with organizational growth strategies, enabling secure digital transformation while supporting revenue-generating programs.
• Built and led cross-functional architecture teams, mentoring junior architects, and collaborating with IT, operations, and product stakeholders to ensure cohesive cybersecurity delivery.
• Influenced executive decision-making by presenting cybersecurity architecture investments as enablers of growth, not just cost centers, achieving stakeholder buy-in for multi-million-dollar initiatives.

Technical Role.

• Created strategic assets, accelerators, and Points of View (POVs) to support go-to-market (GTM) initiatives, and enhance delivery within the security architecture domain.
• Cultivated relationships with IT leadership and C-suite executives (CxOs) to influence decision-making and drive alignment of cybersecurity initiatives with broader business objectives.
• Developed and executed tailored account strategies to meet vertical-specific goals, supporting revenue growth, and delivering on key performance metrics.
• Designed and delivered security architecture artifacts, with a primary focus on the endpoint security domain, including assessments, roadmaps, and solution architecture.
• Established cybersecurity governance models that provided visibility to leadership, ensured accountability, and aligned security controls with enterprise risk management objectives.
• Defined project roadmaps and architectural blueprints using SABSA and TOGAF methodologies; conducted in-depth.
• Architecture reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise and cybersecurity standards.
• Provided strategic recommendations and implemented security policies in alignment with internal governance and industry best practices.
• Engineered secure endpoint architectures, and conducted infrastructure audits to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Performed risk assessments for new initiatives and operational changes, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk management strategies.

Started - Security Analyst

Last - Security Delivery Team Lead

Project : Multiple (MSS)

Technical SME for Endpoint and Security Applications for multiple projects (MSS).

• Team management of 20 or more professionals as Team Lead.
• Project Management and Delivery Management.
• Project transition, planning, and implementation.
• Endpoint and SecAps tools management, deployment, and implementation.
• Change management and problem management processes.
• Managing the deployment and operations of AV, EDR, email gateway, DLP, and proxy.
• Preparing project solutions and transition management.
  

Advanced Threat Protection Tools.

• Cylance - Deployment and Management in Petrochemical Industries.
• Endgame - Deployment and Management across three client environments.
• Carbon Black: Standard deployment and overall maturity for two government clients.
• Carbon Black: Protect, Deployment, and Implementation.
• Owning complete responsibility, starting with POC, deployment, and operational activity.

Technology migration from traditional appliance/DC-based to cloud-based solutions.

• Escalation POC for endpoint security in OU, managing 50+ clients.
• SPOC for the development of on-bench capabilities for the pipelined project.
• Worked with the solutioning team to generate in-house capabilities to deliver new project solutions to existing clients.
• Worked on various projects, transitioning while managing operations for different clients and providing industry-standard IT solutions.
• Cloud-based AV solutions.
• DLP solutions
• Connectors and integrations.

Project : SARM

• Technical SME for Endpoint Delivery Gateway.
• Managing Email Gateway, DLP, and Proxy - Telecom Giant
• Technical project implementation.
• Deployment of four new Email Gateways across the enterprise. Technical SME
• Upgrade and deployment of Websense proxy, Technical SME.
• Deployment and upgrade of Symantec DLP. Technical SME
• ArcSight device integration.