Security Professional with over 8 years of experience in leading projects from inception to completion. Proven ability to foster collaboration among stakeholders to meet project goals.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Solution Specialist
Accenture
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2025 - 03.2025
Conducted 40 hours of Okta and Entra ID training for 50+ fresh industry talents, building foundational expertise in identity and access management, while reducing training costs by 40%.
Developed dynamic IAM dashboards leveraging Power BI to visualize key metrics—user access trends, authentication flows, MFA adoption, provisioning lifecycle, and compliance status—accelerating data-driven decisions at the executive level by 60%.
Senior Security Consultant
EYGDS
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2019 - 01.2025
Delivered seamless SSO integration for 500+ apps through Okta and EntraID, leveraging protocols like SAML, OIDC, SCIM, and SWA to reduce login friction, accelerate onboarding by 60%, and improve user satisfaction.
Implemented seamless IWA, Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning, and delegated authentication via Active Directory in Okta, reducing login latency by 40%, cutting authentication-related helpdesk tickets by 60%, and scaling to support over 10,000 enterprise users with minimal admin overhead.
Partnered with firewall teams to define and implement trusted IP zones for internal and external networks, blocking blacklisted IPs, and reducing the risk of network breaches.
Reduced user friction and improved security posture by 70% through the implementation of Okta and Entra ID policies, and sign-on rules for global sessions, authentication workflows, and authenticator enrollment.
Automated user onboarding using Okta APIs, integrating with the HR application to dynamically provision users, assign role-based access via group membership, and enforce MFA and MDM policies, reducing onboarding time by 85%.
Automated identity lifecycle tasks—provisioning, de-provisioning, and application assignments—via Okta Workflows reduce errors by 70% and save over 1,500 hours annually, boosting IT team efficiency and scalability.
Partnered with pre-sales to provide technical leadership on Okta and EntraID capabilities across 10+ RFPs, influencing over $10M in closed deals by delivering tailored, enterprise-grade identity solutions.
Leveraged Okta's integration with Intune to ensure secure, compliant access to corporate resources from mobile devices through automated device trust, and passwordless authentication.
Configured Okta and Entra ID policies, and sign-on rules for global sessions, authentication, and authenticator enrollment—enhancing security while reducing user friction through streamlined and adaptive access experiences.
Strong ability to document standards and processes, knowledge articles, SOPs, with hands-on experience in Microsoft Visio for building logical and architectural diagrams for complex environments.
Security Analyst
Accenture
Gurgaon, Haryana
09.2016 - 08.2019
Expertise in digital certificate management, including generation, renewal, revocation, and security policies.
Strong knowledge of PKI architecture, certificate authorities (CAs), and certificate lifecycle management tools.
Automated bulk user creation, deletion, using scripting languages like PowerShell in AD.
Performed periodic audits of user accounts to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.
Actively participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation, meetings to provide expert-level support, and work on incidents for PKI and IAM systems during outages, incidents, or security events.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation And Control Engineering
Institute of Engineering And Rural Technology
Prayagraj ,Uttar Pradesh, India
07-2016
Skills
IAM Tools: Okta, SSO, EntraID, CyberArk, SailPoint, Active Directory, LDAP
Languages: Python, PowerShell
Soft Skills: Stakeholder Management, Collaboration, Technical Writing, Team Mentoring
Awarded the Highest Performing Team for a client facing project of public utility organization in the North Americas region where I served as the Technical Lead at EY in 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/subchak-97pointer_highest-performing-team-awardfy-24-activity-7212182738169176064-rZrb?
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/vandana-yadav-133161b5
Timeline
Technical Solution Specialist
Accenture
01.2025 - 03.2025
Senior Security Consultant
EYGDS
08.2019 - 01.2025
Security Analyst
Accenture
09.2016 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation And Control Engineering