Ayush Chhabra

• Led and nurtured relationships with IT subdivision leadership and Security Champions to drive the organization's security acumen, fostering engagement and collaboration on risk and vulnerability management strategies.
• Mentored and onboarded Security Champions, guiding them through certification levels and supporting their professional development in security policies, controls, and best practices.
• Proactively monitored build and development projects to support Security Champions and developers with technical guidance as they resolved security-related issues.
• Oversaw vulnerability management programs by tracking open vulnerabilities, ensuring remediation efforts were prioritized, and providing escalation support when necessary.
• Collaborated with Assurance and Engineering Teams to resolve challenging vulnerabilities and maintained alignment with overall security posture and leadership directives.
• Guided Security Champions through the vulnerability acceptance process and threat modeling sessions, ensuring proper documentation and risk-level analysis for high-rated vulnerabilities.
• Spearheaded regular security reporting, providing data-driven insights into the organization's security posture through monthly metrics and progress reports.
• Facilitated the development of comprehensive security dashboards and OKRs to measure performance, team productivity, and vulnerability remediation across subdivisions.

Technical Security Advisor

• Collaborated with IT Leaders and Security Champions to orchestrate a comprehensive vulnerability management program, creating customized dashboards for better OKR tracking & data analysis
• Conducted in depth analyses of vulnerabilities across diverse sources, identified owners neglected vulnerabilities, and ensured detailed reporting to prevent and unresolved risks.

Resiliency and Recovery Operations

• Led the coordination of testing protocols to evaluate Vanguards readiness across over 450 applications and services globally, enhancing the organization's resiliency against regional disasters
• Actively engaged with Business stakeholders and IT support teams, increasing organizational awareness and preparedness for critical services necessary during unforeseen disruptions.

Identity and Access Management

• Initiated and led a pivotal project focused on the rotation of old passwords, strengthening system security by ensuring the security integration of updated credentials
• Managed and resolved numerous tickets for developers, streamlining the process of secure credential updates.

ServiceNow Development

• Championed the full lifecycle management of ServiceNow Module Forums, providing comprehensive support from requirements gathering to development, enhancements, and user support
• This initiative significantly improved the efficiency and responsiveness of security service delivery to clients.

• Led a company-wide phishing simulation, designing and deploying custom email templates tailored for target audiences to assess and enhance organizational phishing awareness
• This initiative significantly boosted employee's ability to recognize and report security threats.

• Managed the communication of critical security alerts, ensuring timely updates on threats based on severity levels and remediation steps were relayed to responsible teams, enhancing response times and mitigation efforts
• Developed and implemented a new workflow utilizing SharePoint to streamline tracking and management of remediation efforts, significantly improving process efficiency and accountability.