Swapnil Kotawadekar

Associate Partner

Thane, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Conducted over 400 global PCI-DSS assessments.
  • Achieved 98% improvement in quality assurance operations.
  • Expert in HITRUST processes for the healthcare industry.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Consultant specializing in compliance and risk management for Finance and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

HitrustIt Risk ManagementIt Audit

Other Skills

ISO 42001Artificial Intelligence (AI)Vulnerability AssessmentVulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

About

I am a cyber security enthusiast with 10 years of experience in core cyber security areas, including technical assessment, compliance, and audit. My technical expertise includes: 1. Firewall ruleset review 2. Vulnerability assessment 3. Internal and external vulnerability assessments and penetration testing 4. Web application penetration testing 5. Segmentation testing 6. Network architecture review 7. Wireless scanning I have extensive experience with PCI-DSS, having worked with banks, BPOs, data centers, service providers, and merchants. Throughout my career, I have conducted over 400 assessments across the globe, including regions such as the Middle East, APAC, and the USA. My technical knowledge has been instrumental in conducting high-quality PCI-DSS assessments and has also helped in performing technical evaluations like PADSS (which was sunset by PCI SSC in 2022) and 3DS. In addition, I have over 2 years of experience in HITRUST, primarily working with US-based healthcare industry. I established and led quality assurance operations at Accorian, achieving a 98% improvement in quality. I also trained team members on HITRUST processes and raised awareness about HITRUST. I successfully managed complex HITRUST clients and ensured timely delivery of projects, complemented by my experience in a Big Four firm. My experience in CISO operations has been invaluable during audits, as it allows me to understand clients' mindsets more effectively. I hold several certifications, including ISC2 CISSP, AWS Solution Architect, PCI-QSA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor (LA), Lead Implementer (LI), ISC2 SSCP, ISC2 CC, and CEH. These certifications helped a lot in understanding the technicality of the client during an audit. With Python, I love to develop scripts that make my and my team's tasks easy.

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Accorian

2 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

IT Risk ManagementHITRUST

Senior Manager

Feb 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

IT Risk ManagementHITRUST

Sbi capital markets

Deputy Manager

Jul 2022Feb 2023 · 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Responsible for handling all cybersecurity operation of SBI Caps.
  • Working directly with SBI Capital CISO.
  • Track and maintain & work on KPI’s and KRI’s.
  • Prepare a audit plan and track on-time delivery of cybersecurity activities and audits.
  • Participate and coordinate in cybersecurity audit.
  • Conduct awareness training, Phishing drill.
  • Co-ordinate between vendors, IT team to get cyber security activities done.
  • Suggest compensating control for vulnerabilities observed in VA/PT to reduce risk.
  • Review of all cyber security activity report like internal VA, PT, firewall ruleset, APT etc. and provide final approval on same.
  • Prepare and maintain Policy and procedure.
  • Monitor and track SOC alert and follow up with IT team for closure.
  • Prepare PowerBI visual dashboard for Board meetings.
  • Maintain and track all cybersecurity operations.
  • Responsible for monitoring DLP event.
  • Responsible for raising incidents and finding root cause.
  • Provide technical & suggestions help to IT team.
IT Risk Management

Pwc india

Senior Associate

Jan 2022Jul 2022 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • 1. Responsible for performing application architecture review, network architecture review for middle east government projects.
  • 2. Responsible for performing internal Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.
  • 3. Responsible for performing web application penetration testing.
  • 4. Create Visual report using PowerBI for final presentation.
  • 5. Knowledge of PowerBI.
IT Risk Management

_vois

Deputy Manager

Jun 2021Jan 2022 · 7 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Worked in Secure by Design operation.
  • Responsible for performing risk assessment of firewall assurance.
  • Review network architecture diagram to ensure compliance with Vodafone standard.
IT Risk Management

Controlcase

3 roles

Cyber Security Consultant

Aug 2018May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Working as a PCI QSA to perform PCI DSS audit.
  • Responsible for performing audit and ensuring compliance of client from start to end certification cycle of PCIDSS.
  • Detailed knowledge of PCIDSS, PADSS controls and compliance.
  • ROC writing experience.
  • Performed onsite assessment of banks, BPO's and data centers.
  • Performed evidence collection, validation and ROC writing.
IT Risk ManagementIT Audit

Cyber Security Consultant | QA

Promoted

Apr 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Performed offsite assessment for banks, Payment gateways, Payment aggregator, BPO's and data center.
  • Detail knowledge of PCI DSS requirement and controls (3.2.1)
  • Responsible for performing QA to ensure scoping of client is as per PCIDSS.
  • Responsible for performing QA to ensure provided evidence as per PCI DSS standard.
  • Responsible for validating audit evidence as per PCIDSS standard.
  • Responsible for writing ROC for PCI DSS.
  • Performed Onsite audit for PADSS ( payment application data center security standard )
  • Performed technical audit of PADSS to find trace of cleartext SAD (Sensitive authentication data).
  • Detailed knowledge of PADSS standard.
  • Detailed knowledge of key management and encryption.
  • Detailed knowledge of CIS benchmark.
IT Risk ManagementIT Audit

Associate Cyber Security Consultant

Sep 2015Apr 2016 · 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Responsible for performing network penetration testing & web application penetration testing from internal and external perspective.
  • Conduct application penetration testing (OWASP & functional flaws).
  • Responsible for performing firewall ruleset review to ensure firewall compliance.
  • Responsible for performing segmentation testing to ensure PCI segmentation.
  • Recommend compensating control to lower down risk.
  • Experience of using Nessus, Nexpose, Burp, Kali Linux and other tools.
IT Risk ManagementIT Audit

Education

Ramnarain Ruia College - Mumbai

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

certification in cyber law — cyber law

Jan 2014Jan 2015

K V Pendharkar College of Arts Science and Commerce

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2013

ADARSHA COLLAGE

H.S.C — SCIENCE

Jan 2009Jan 2010

SHRI KRUSHNA KHAMKAR SCHOOL

S.S.C — PRIMARY SCHOOL

Jan 2007Jan 2008

University of Mumbai

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jun 2013Aug 2015

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