Dhirendra Kumar

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in non-financial risk management.
Expert in Cyber and Information Security frameworks.
Proven track record in crisis management and resilience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Risk Management expert in Financial Services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber ResilienceInformation Risk ManagementCrisis ManagementOperational Resilience

Other Skills

BCMBS25999BS7799Business ContinuityCISAControl environmentDisaster RecoveryFinancial RiskGovernanceISO 27001IT AuditITILIncident ManagementInformation SecurityInformation Security Management

About

Creditable experience of 20+ years in the areas of non-financial risks like Cyber, Information security, Technology Risk, cloud security, Artificial intelligence (AI) risk, Third Party Risk and Operational Resilience Creative strategist with ability to identify, assess risks and control gaps, recommend innovative remediation plans to deliver Business value. Define and Implement control frameworks, Manage RCSA cycles, Risk Events, Issues mgmt, develop secure by Design strategy, Intelligence Driven Defense, Security assessment and assurance program for IT infrastructure, Application security, identity and access management, Data protection, vulnerability Management. Real-world experience in managing large scale, wide spread Crisis situations related to natural calamities, Technology failures, civil unrest and security Creating world class service line, centre of excellence (CoE) from scratch and building truly exceptional teams Proven capability in managing change and globally dispersed stakeholders

Experience

Barclays

Head Tech Risk and Cyber Control

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · India

Kpmg india

Associate Partner- Digital Trust

Jul 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Kpmg indonesia

Director of Cyber Security

Sep 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Business continuity institute (bci)

Chairperson BCI DelhiNCR chapter1( Volunteer)

Dec 2017 – Dec 2024 · 7 yrs · Delhi

Barclays

3 roles

Head of Cyber Resilience

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Develop and implement Cyber Resilience, Information risk framework and standards in line with Enterprise Risk Management framework
Provide strategic direction and guidance to senior stakeholders to maintain an effective Control environment
Identify, assess, escalate any gaps in key controls of Cyber, Resilience, Information Risk, Data Privacy, Data Leakage, People risk and Premises and Security risk
Partner with Business and Technology to incorporate Cyber, Information and resilience risk and controls in RCSA. Conduct Conformance testing to assess design/operational effectiveness of controls, provide SME support in developing the remediation action plan
Establish an effective Governance to maintain, Improve and report Key Risk Indicators (KPIs) compliance, new risk or control deficiencies to Board and global Risk committees
Monitoring, Escalating and Management of Crisis and Major Cyber or information security Incidents, document lesson learned and monitor the closure of the remediation actions
Participate and represent Cyber Resilience and Information risk in all appropriate control and Management forums

Cyber ResilienceInformation risk frameworkControl environmentCrisis ManagementInformation Risk Management

India Head Group Resilience, Information Risk and Crisis Management

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Develop, maintain and enhance India Resilience program in line with Group Resilience policies and standards
Establish an effective governance to maintain, improve, report resilience capabilities and sustain any significant changes or disruption
Provide strategic direction and guidance to senior stakeholders to maintain an effective resilience capability.Participate and represent Resilience in all appropriate control and Management forums
Identify, assess and escalate resilience risks arising from significant events, Concentration risk, MCI, Audit, conformance testing to Resilience Risk and relevant control forums
Monitoring, Escalation and Management of Crisis and major incidents; document lesson learned and monitor the closure of the remediation actions
Ensure timely regulatory reporting and lead the internal or external resilience audits
Budget planning and provide strategic direction for Work Area Recovery solutions and ensure the site readiness for use in case of any disruption
Governance for resilience capability of key suppliers for India entities

Resilience programGovernanceCrisis ManagementOperational Resilience

Head BCM

Jul 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Governance and oversee the BCM practice at Barclays Shared Services India

Anz banking group

2 roles

Director, Business Continuity

Oct 2008 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

BCM Governance for ANZ India operations to ensure implementation of BCM framework
Lead Global CoE for IT DR consulting for all new IT application across organisation