Sumeet More

Strategic and Insightful Cyber Security Professional with 18+ years of IT leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, and security services. Senior leader and trusted advisor in information security, risk management, control framework and compliance with multiple industry credentials recognized for cost-effective system improvements, operational streamlining and positive leadership style.

Successful at optimizing security standards, develop creative business solutions, roadmap, improving planning processes and managing systems implementation, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations.

Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training. Accustomed to driving efficiency and effectiveness by developing, delivering and supporting strategic plans.

• Achievements/ R&R
• Led several ITSM projects with ownership of incident, problem and change management area
• Managed projects from inceptions to successful completion
• Efficiently managed transition of Service Desk to offshore and making it successfully operational
• Chaired the change advisory board to review overall change management performance
• Drove end to end major incidents, post incident review (RCA) and integrated change management
• Minimized number of incidents occurring due to insufficient service or component capacity
• Supported teams in maintaining industry best practice framework, process, and tool knowledge through continuous improvements in line with ITIL process standardization
• Provided performance metric reports to leadership, management, and clients (Incident MTTR/MTRS report, change control report, CSAT, etc.)
• Mphasis An HP Company (April 2005 till June 2011), Project Manager\]

• CISM Training & Exam Cleared- Feb 2023
• Certified ISO 27001:2013 Lead Implementer, TUVSUD - 2020
• Pre-Sales & Bid Management (Udemy) Training
• One Trust Professional & BigID Training
• Certified Prince 2 Practitioner, 2016
• Certified DevOps Masters
• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt - 2016
• ISO 31001:2013 Training - TCS
• Certified ITIL V3 Foundation - 2009

• TCS: Multiple “, Star of the Month” Awards Star of the Quarter Awards Appreciated by clients for excellent work in NIST CSF audit readiness, Data Sanitization Standards and PoC of solutions selection and deployment Mphasis: Multiple Star of the Month Awards Excellence Award for business savior and commitment
• Established and maintained documentation for manual IAM Feed, Provisioning, De-Provisioning Process workflows. Directed the cyber resilience project subject to identity and access management. Planned roadmap and participated in the standard process for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. Worked closely with the global sales teams to present offerings and capabilities for IAM solutioning (SailPoint). Identity and Access Management Projects Transition manager and Team manager for Vendor Risk Assessment engagements for BFSI, Energy, and Manufacturing clients. Performed independent Third-Party Risk assessments for multiple clients. Supported vendors with pre-analyses, assessment templates, awareness, and guidance. Supported the risk management & supply chain teams to establish vendor portfolio, set-up vendor hierarchy and engagements, risk rating scales, question bank, process workflow design, control checklist template, escalation model, process exceptions document, etc. Managing resource hiring (external & internal) to establish the VRM/TPRM team. Demonstrated vendor risk overview dashboard/ reports to the stakeholders on monthly basis and quarterly business review (QBR) with the project sponsors. Develop and implement training plans for team members, awareness sessions to vendors. Vendor Risk Management Projects Demonstrated GRC & Data Security/ Privacy Roadmap ownership; assessed current IT Security posture, created a roadmap for improvement. Identified and developed corrective actions with technology teams to remediate gaps and drove the implementation of corrective controls. Assesses the results for effectiveness across the organization to meet regulatory compliance requirements through monthly reviews. Developed the strategic project plan, roadmap/ workflow design to mature the POC and implementation of GRC solutions: One Trust, BIG ID, Service Now, RSA Archer. Developed knowledge repositories, standardize policies and procedures, and created awareness through training or working sessions. Prepared and delivered solution-based product presentations and demonstrations to customers e.g., comparative analysis and recommendations through workshops or demos. Monitor & track all internal and external audit findings and facilitate closure. Compiled and present collaterals for governance dashboards on status of Risk assessment, Control effectiveness, and GAP remediation. Managing the sales bid process by responding to RFI’s & RFP’s, reports, commercials, and pricing and BAFO to meet the requirements. Information Technology & Cyber Security Assessments projects Led Data Privacy and Data Protection projects (GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, etc.) performing PIA assessments for business process and applications. Determine privacy & security gaps related to data privacy principals like right to individuals, 3rd party transfer, security of personal data, consent & cookie management, etc. Solution design & implementation, Workflow Design of GRC solution (OneTrust, ServiceNow). Conduct GDPR readiness and recommend IT Security industry best practices to the business on data protection and privacy areas, data masking/pseudonymization. Arranged workshops with Microsoft and assist client to implement MS AIP suite.

• Association of Information Technology Professionals
• Project Management Institute

Love playing sports over weekend and holidays, travellling long places