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Raksha Ramesh

Raksha Ramesh

Bengaluru

Summary

A proactive and detail-oriented cybersecurity professional with hands-on experience in OT security and governance. Currently leading critical initiatives in ABB's global OT security program, including risk profiling, self-assessment tooling, and funding strategy for cybersecurity upgrades. Known for bridging communication across stakeholders, coordinating with global contractors, and contributing to comprehensive cyber resilience roadmaps. A fast learner with strong technical and analytical capabilities, committed to enabling secure and scalable industrial operations.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification

Work History

IS Security Specialist - OT Systems

ABB
Bengaluru
11.2024 - Current
  • Lead the Risk Profiling, Fund Calculator, and Self-Assessment workstreams in Project CyberForge.
  • Created a cybersecurity self-assessment tool for factories to conduct quick evaluations.
  • Developed a Fund Calculator to help factory owners estimate the budgets required to address security gaps.
  • Performed comprehensive risk evaluations using criticality-based and control-based profiling.
  • Serve as the integration point between ABB and external cybersecurity contractors to ensure project continuity.
  • Provide input across related workstreams such as Scope and Coverage, Governance Models, Cyber Resilience Roadmap, and the implementation of services like Asset Visibility, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response.

Global Early Talent Program Trainee

ABB
Bengaluru
10.2022 - 10.2024

Hired in Bengaluru, India. Completed four 6-month international rotations:

  • Security Insights & Reporting – Bengaluru, India
    Created dashboards and reporting systems for security metrics and compliance insights.
  • Security Governance – Zurich, Switzerland
    Supported internal policy frameworks, compliance alignment, and risk quantification models.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions – Zurich, Switzerland
    Contributed to cybersecurity aspects of M&A due diligence and integration; helped develop M&A awareness training.
  • OT Security – Bengaluru, India
    Core contributor to Project CyberForge, including initial RFP development, consultant coordination, and workstream planning for factory risk profiling and budget modeling.

SRE Intern

PhonePe
Bengaluru
03.2022 - 07.2022
  • 4-month internship involving training on various topics, like Nginx, Traefik, Docker, Riemann Monitoring, Git, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, MariaDB, Azure, Zookeeper, YARN, HDFS, Aerospike, GlusterFS, and Linux.
  • A project on creating a pipeline for Elasticsearch Benchmarking.

Data Scientist Intern

Dun&Bradstreet
Mumbai
08.2021 - 02.2022
  • 6-month internship in the Country Economic Insights Team. Performing data analytics using MS Excel and solving queries using MySQL.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

BNM Institute of Technology
Bengaluru, India
07.2022

Pre-University - PCMC - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Computers

Vidya Mandir Ind. PU College
Bengaluru, India
06.2018

Class 10 -

Thirumala Vidya Nikethan
Bengaluru, India
03.2016

Skills

  • CyberSecurity
  • OT Security
  • Security Governance
  • Risk Assessment / Management
  • IS Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Data Analysis
  • MS Excel
  • Python, C/C, Java, MySQL
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
  • Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Docker
  • Azure
  • MariaDB, MongoDB
  • HDFS, YARN, Zookeeper
  • Public Speaking
  • Leadership and Teamwork
  • Time Management

Papers And Publications

Sentiment Enhanced Smart Movie Recommendation System, Springer 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems (ICSES 2022)

Certification

  • Fundamentals of OT Security (ICS/SCADA)
  • Industrial Cybersecurity from IEC62443 for ICS/OT
  • ICS/OT Cybersecurity as per NIST 800-82
  • Cyber Security Risk Management
  • ABB IS Project Manager - Level 1
  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification
  • Mindfulness Life Coach Certification
  • Cambridge BEC Vantage Certification

Accomplishments

  • ABB Trailblazers Spot Award (2023) – awarded for outstanding performance during the Global Early Talent Program
  • CoCubes National Employability Assessment (2021) – ranked number 1 in India on this nationwide employability test assessing domain and aptitude skills
  • National Suvarna Balashree Ratna Award – Conferred for academic excellence and holistic student achievement by a national cultural body in India
  • Dr. Sir M Visvesvaraya WASHEL Global Medal – awarded by the World Academy of Sciences, Humanities, Education, and Literature for outstanding student merit and leadership

Work Availability

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Timeline

IS Security Specialist - OT Systems

ABB
11.2024 - Current

Global Early Talent Program Trainee

ABB
10.2022 - 10.2024

SRE Intern

PhonePe
03.2022 - 07.2022

Data Scientist Intern

Dun&Bradstreet
08.2021 - 02.2022

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

BNM Institute of Technology

Pre-University - PCMC - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics & Computers

Vidya Mandir Ind. PU College

Class 10 -

Thirumala Vidya Nikethan
Raksha Ramesh