Partner, Advisory Services Burgess is a Partner in Advisory Services team with a focus on the Information & Cyber Security in India;
He has over 20 years of industry experience;
Burgess has completed his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications and M.B.A from Jamnalal Bajaj College of Management; and
He holds the following certification: CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC and CIPP
Professional Experience
Burgess has over a decade of hands on experience as a CISO responsible for Information Security, Privacy & Compliance across the Telecom and BFSI sector;
As a CISO, he was responsible for setting up the Information Security & Privacy function in the organization and improve the information security posture of the organization by following a multi-domain, multi-level, Defence in depth approach;
He was instrumental in setting up the enterprise business security architecture for his Company. This was designed taking into considerations the business objectives and goals, IT strategy, potential threats and risks, and legal, compliance and regulatory requirements;
Some of the key enterprise security solutions that he has assessed/ designed are SIEM, IPS / IDS Systems, End Point (AV and HIPS), end-point encryption, MDM, DLP, Gateway devices, two-factor authentication, remote access solutions, and IAM solutions;
Extensively worked with Government Security agencies like CERT-IN , NCIPC etc for securing national critical telecom infrastructure
He has implemented state-of-the-art SOC in conjunction with an SIEM solution, equipped with cyber threat intelligence, event correlation tools for internal and external event monitoring;
Responsible for setting up the company ethical Hacking program comprising of vulnerability assessment / penetration testing & application security tests to ensure robustness of IT & Telecom infrastructure and associated applications;
He has overseen deployments of the security controls across a multitude of heterogeneous platforms, covering over 6,000 technologically diverse and geographically dispersed elements; and
Under his leadership, the organization achieved ISO 27001, ISO 20000, PCI-DSS and BS 10012 certifications.
