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Vandana Yadav

Sunnyvale,CA

Summary

  • 8+ years of subject matter expertise in Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Data Privacy, and Cybersecurity Incident Management across US - based healthcare, financial, and retail sectors.
  • 5+ years of experience in aligning IAM solutions with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, GDPR, and SOX.
  • Experienced in SIEM tools (Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk) for real-time event alerting, and anomaly detection.
  • Leveraged Python|PowerShell to develop scalable automation.
  • Strong communicator and collaborator with experience in working cross-functionally with HR, IT, product, engineering, and compliance teams.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IAM Security Lead

Accenture
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2025 - 03.2025
  • Deployed and managed Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to enforce just-in-time (JIT) privileged access, requiring MFA and approval workflows for elevated roles, significantly reducing standing admin privileges and enhancing security posture across hybrid cloud and on-premises server environments.
  • Built real-time IAM health dashboards using PowerBI and SQL, tracking stale accounts, privilege elevation, login trends, MFA adoption, and access anomalies across thousands of users, delivering insights to security leadership for risk mitigation.
  • Delivered hands-on technical training to 20 fresh graduate trainee engineers, covering core areas including IAM, SSO, Data Protection, Security Operations, and Incident Response; collaborated with L&D to design labs, scenarios, and real-world simulations—cutting onboarding time by 75% and accelerating team integration into live security workflows.

IAM Senior Consultant

Ernst And Young GDS
Bengaluru, Karnataka
10.2021 - 01.2025
  • Designed IAM roadmap for US- based retail, healthcare and utility domain clients with the implementation of self-service password management, and Multi factor Authentication for users using Azure Cloud services, slashing IT support tickets from 40K to 2K per year.
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end user lifecycle automation using Azure AD, AAD Connect and Workday, reducing manual provisioning efforts by 70%.
  • Collaborated with application owners, security teams, and business stakeholders to design and implement centralized Single Sign-On (SSO) using federated authentication protocols (SAML, SCIM, OIDC,WS-Fed), improving end-user experience and reducing authentication management costs by 40%.
  • Achieved 99% device compliance by implementing encryption and access policies via Microsoft Intune, integrated with Entra ID Conditional Access. Enabled secure, cross-platform identity enforcement across 5,000+ corporate devices (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android), reducing data exposure risk and ensuring regulatory audit readiness as part of a Zero Trust security model.
  • Ingested EntraID logs into Splunk (SIEM) to track dormant accounts, suspicious activity and failed logins, reducing incident response time by 70% for a healthcare organization.
  • Reduced insider risk by 45% by implementing Separation of Duties (SoD) policies using Azure AD Access Packages and Entitlement Management, preventing toxic access combinations across key business applications.
  • Led enterprise-scale access certification campaigns covering 100K+ entitlements by leveraging Entra ID Identity Governance.Partnered with application owners to drive timely remediation and revocation, enhancing data compliance posture and reducing access-related risk across critical systems.
  • Spearheaded collaboration with Product, Legal, and Application teams during internal and external information security audits, driving 100% completion of remediation actions within audit timelines, and improving the audit score from 65 to 90.
  • Led the design and rollout of cybersecurity training playbooks and knowledge base (KB) articles focused on MFA adoption and password hygiene for end users and IT administrators; promoted secure behavior and best practices.

IAM Security Consultant

Ernst And Young GDS
Gurgaon, Haryana
08.2019 - 09.2021
  • Accelerated identity provisioning timelines from a week to 2 days by designing and implementing lifecycle use cases, such as Joiner, Mover, Leaver, birthright access, app assignment, manager changes, and license optimization.
  • Developed detailed incident documentation and conducted root cause analysis (RCA) for IAM, MFA, and SSO incidents logged in ServiceNow, enabling trend identification and policy updates that reduced repeat incidents and improved security posture across business units.
  • Improved SOX audit readiness score of a financial services client from 75 to 95 by reducing documentation gaps through centralizing and maintaining BRDs, FRDs,Design docs, SOPs, RCAs, escalation matrices, RACI charts, and runbooks in SharePoint, driving enhanced stakeholder accountability across Security, IT, Engineering, and Compliance functions.

IAM Security Analyst

Accenture
Gurgaon, Haryana
09.2016 - 08.2019
  • Achieved 99.9% response and resolution SLA adherence in the ticketing tool by monitoring 50M+ system logs, ensuring rapid troubleshooting, and resolution of end-user lifecycle and access issues.
  • Executed and monitored normal, emergency and standard change management processes in ServiceNow, ensuring secure and compliant modifications to IAM, and infrastructure systems.
  • Automated user account creation and group addition in Active Directory by scheduling PowerShell scripts using Task Scheduler, reducing onboarding time from 5 days to 2 days, and improving operational efficiency.
  • 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

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Prayagraj ,Uttar Pradesh, India
07-2016

Skills

  • Microsoft Security Stack: Entra ID, PIM, Identity Protection, AAD Connect, Access Packages, Conditional Access
  • Leadership: Cross-functional Strategy, Project Execution, Stakeholder Engagement
  • Authentication Protocols: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, WS-Fed, RADIUS, Kerberos
  • Cloud Platforms: Azure
  • Automation & Lifecycle: JML Processes, MS Graph API, PowerShell, Python, SCIM, Workday
  • Access Control: IAM, RBAC, PAM, MFA, SSO, Entitlement Management, Zero Trust
  • Compliance & Governance: HIPAA, SOX, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53
  • Security Operations: SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel), Incident Response

Accomplishments

  • 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.
  • Spot Award for leading a project successfully in 2023.
  • Customer Satisfaction Award for North America client in 2022.

Certification

  • ITIL v3 Certified (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) 2018
  • CompTia Security Plus (2017)

LinkedIn

  • www.linkedin.com\vandana-yadav-133161b5

Timeline

IAM Security Lead

Accenture
01.2025 - 03.2025

IAM Senior Consultant

Ernst And Young GDS
10.2021 - 01.2025

IAM Security Consultant

Ernst And Young GDS
08.2019 - 09.2021

IAM Security Analyst

Accenture
09.2016 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation And Control Engineering

Uttar Pradesh Technical University

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