Balaram N Email Address

Director Information Technology

Manthan is an information technology services company which specializes in Retail Analytics, Customer Analytics, Consumer Goods Analytics, Advanced Analytics Solutions and more.

Over the last 20 years have grown from desktop engineer, system administrator, IT Manager and presently as Director IT & CISO, this journey of experience/growth has given me tremendous knowledge to understand/predict, improve and implement best industry practices to keep my organisation risk free at all times, not to mentioned some precautionary key initiatives delivered are Virtualization, Cloud and Security, ISO 27000 & ISMS 27001 compliance audit and successfully. Conducting Monthly Cyber Security training program to employees and conducting online awareness program. Cyber Security breaches are at an all-time high and IT teams are stretched to the limit with managing today’s increasingly complex security deployments. Keeping up with threats while minimizing workloads requires comprehensive controls and I believe that every individual can play important role bring such threats under control hence bringing such awareness is one of key security initiative and at i conduct monthly cyber security awareness workshops, do’s and don’ts’ s and send out email updates on latest threats in the market. Deployed DLP & NESSUS so that i can stop data leak from inside organization & vulnerability scanning for our Network devices and server so that i can fix vulnerable on our network and servers Essence is to gain control over our organisation’s confidential data by monitoring and regulating how employees use and transfer data via common channels, such as email, IM, printing, and USB drives—both in and out of office premises. Stop data loss initiated by sophisticated malware that hijacks sensitive and personal information and secure data when it’s stored on desktops, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices by deploying DLP I have been able to solve one of major data leak source. Conducting a third-party code security program so that can identify the issue and get certified by the external vendor for our application. We should act to protect the integrity our applications and its other information assets against the introduction of malicious code (malware). Periodically third-party code security program assessment of applications needs to be conducted and fixe all gaps found during the assessment On a quarterly basis. We use the services of a third-party code security program so that can identify the issue and get certified by the external vendor for our application and we do external scanning on a half-yearly.