ANSHUMAN GOSWAMI
Springfield,New Jersey
Summary
Progressive career and a business leader, Cybersecurity Risk Subject Matter Expert with a successful track record of business turn arounds (declining sales), leading high growth and profitable teams.
Anshuman loves storytelling, customer obsessed, passionate about user experience and safety assurance of human and non-human threat surface in digital enterprises.
During more than 20 years with Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro, Anshuman has led client engagements across commercial enterprise clients by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs.
Anshuman is Global Associate VP and Business Head for Persistent Systems Security Practice, with over 20+years of experience in managing and delivering complex global programs, building successful teams, helping clients prepare, accelerate, and operate their cyber programs.
He brings deep expertise in executing security transformational and operational programs , security architecture, cloud and infrastructure security, identity & access management, cybersecurity operations, incident response and recovery, and GRC risk management.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Global Head of Cybersecurity Practice and Business
PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
Bridgewater, USA
10.2020 - Current
- Currently working with high growth cyber businesses to help Persistent System Cybersecurity business address the ever evolving information security marketplace and changing enterprise needs.
- Turned around declining sales, grown the practice by 300+% revenue in 3 years, increased EN and NN revenue YOY, added new business models and channels of revenue through resell, As-a-Service, MSSP, introduced Zero Trust service offerings, unified GRC services portfolio and expanded Go-To-Market security partner ecosystem.
- An avid story-teller, customer obsessed, hire teams, mentor and appraise teams, analyst briefings, published white-papers.
- Anshuman is experienced in managing and delivering complex global programs, building successful teams, helping clients prepare, accelerate, and operate their cyber programs
Cybersecurity and Risk Practice Director
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
East Brunswick, NJ
09.2018 - 10.2020
- Led communication and BFSI vertical clients and grown the book of business from $40M to $60M
- Anshuman led engagements within Media, and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cybersecurity to improve threat assessment and response methodologies.
Director of Enterprise Security (Sales Capture)
ACCENTURE
Florham Park, NJ
04.2017 - 09.2018
- Accomplished $2.7M of new order booking adding 3 new client logos to the practice
- Trusted cybersecurity advisor with CISOs and senior Pharma, Retail, Travel, Hospitality clients executive directors and buying decision makers
- End to End security architecture investments/requirement due diligence and elicitations for Large Cost-Takeout
outsourcing program, complete Cloud Security implementation projects (AWS) for cloud migration programs for retail clients, M&A Divestiture Security Due Diligence programs - Business case to implementation within TSA
Senior Practice Manager for Enterprise Risk and Security Solutions
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
Teaneck, NJ
03.2014 - 04.2017
- $20M+ Transcelerate(Clinical Trial) Platform Security Program Lead (led engagement with 50+ Security SMEs)
- Operationalize IT Risk management life cycle
- Develop Internal Audit plan against ISO 27001, and NIST 800-53, with various IT Security domain leads
- Supported External Audits
- EU Directive Usage Policy development for GDPR compliance mandate assessments
- Oversight of audit procedures, including spotting non-
compliances & process & implementation of control issues, develop Key Risk Indicators(KRIs) and KPIs to measure
audit performance criteria, analyzing & presenting evidence, and documenting client processes - Addressing Non-Compliances working with Infrastructure, Business application owners, IT Security CoEs on a schedule
- Program & SME lead for end-to-end security for Becton-Dickinson - Vyaire divestiture (Pre-TSA- 30+ Security SMEs)- Cloud migrations | Executive Communication & Governance | Portfolio BRM | Budget optimization - staffing & resource management
Senior Practice Manager - Enterprise Security Services (US East)
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
East Brunswick, NJ
04.2010 - 03.2014
- Owned & delivered several technology security implementation programs like Unified GRC platforms, Third Party Risk Management, IDAM programs, Data Security & Encryption managed services, User Access Management program, Global Data Masking implementation and managed services
- Elevated & delivered sustained operational KPIs
- Introduced new security services | Managed CITI Group, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse relationships & teams for the practice.
Education
Corporate Finance - Corporate Finance
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (WHARTON)
Philadelphia, PA 09.2011 - 12.2011
Bachelor of Technology (Honor's) - Electrical Engineering
INDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Kharagpur, India 05.1987 - 05.1991
Skills
- Story -Telling
- Technology Specialties: Security Architecture and Maturity indexing, Security Policy and Process Rationalization, Identity & Access Management (focus on Okta, Microsoft Entra, CIAM technologies and use cases), Secure Service Edge and Zero Trust, Cybersecurity Operations(SIEM/XDR/MDR/EDR), Threat Intelligence, Cloud & Infrastructure Security, Data Security / Privacy, Encryption/Cryptography, Compliance Regulations (PCI-DSS, NERC CIP, SOX), Data Security Standards and Policies, Infrastructure Project Management, and Program Management
- High-value project management
- Relationship management
- Budget governance
- Marketing campaign management
- Training and development
- Strategic thinking
- Business planning
- Sales goal attainment
- Complex negotiations
- Presentations and proposals
- Team building
- Leadership
- Customer-focused
- Problem-solving
Websites
Certifications
Zero Trust Literacy: Zscaler Certified, Certification in Microsoft Security, CRISC (in progress)
Project Management Professional (PMP ~ 20+ years) ~Certified Information Systems Auditor (ex-CISA) ~RSA Archer
Certified(GRC platform
Languages
English
Fluent
Bengali
Native
Hindi
Fluent
Affiliations
- Indian Classical Vocalist, Oil Painting, International Travel
Timeline
Global Head of Cybersecurity Practice and Business
PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
10.2020 - Current
Cybersecurity and Risk Practice Director
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
09.2018 - 10.2020
Director of Enterprise Security (Sales Capture)
ACCENTURE
04.2017 - 09.2018
Senior Practice Manager for Enterprise Risk and Security Solutions
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES
03.2014 - 04.2017
Corporate Finance - Corporate Finance
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (WHARTON)
09.2011 - 12.2011
Senior Practice Manager - Enterprise Security Services (US East)
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
04.2010 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Technology (Honor's) - Electrical Engineering
INDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
05.1987 - 05.1991