Kapil Assudani

A highly driven and ambitious leader with 14+ years of very diverse progressive experience leading teams in all facets of cyber security : security operations, security engineering, security architecture and security strategy working for Fortune 100 size companies. A strategic thinker with razor sharp focus on business alignment and practicing security as a business enablement function. Experience building/designing enterprise security vision, strategy and programs and their phased execution, leading security teams and managing multi-million dollars security portfolio for large organizations (+50 bn+revenue ). Worked in tech industry, big 4 and nation's top healthcare giants. Based on the diverse experience, Kapil believes like any organization in an enterprise, a security organization needs to be thought of and run like business that thrives on collaboration and consensus driven approach. The quest is always to be able to describe the value proposition of a successful cyber security organization in following ways : • Drives operational efficiency in business & IT operations. • Innovates in security to create new lines of business for the enterprise • Ensures compliance & reduces cost of compliance • Increases the security posture while enabling business • Ensures enhanced customer experience • Drives cost savings or contribute directly to profit margins of business • Articulates demand management for security organization in the enterprise • Creates opportunities to do business in ways that establish market differentiation Specialties: Security Strategy & Architecture, Security Risk Management & Governance,Presenting to Board of Directors,Application & Infrastructure Security Architecture and Threat Modeling Penetration Testing,Incidence Response, System/Software Security Development Lifecycle, Security Program Development/Management,