Rajeev Nair

• Leading Infrastructure engineering, Group IT and Cybersecurity
• Lead and oversee a global cybersecurity program, managing a team of professionals across security operations, incident response, and compliance.
• Developed and implemented a company-wide security strategy that resulted in a 40% reduction in cyber attack frequency within the first year.
• Lead risk assessments and security audits to identify vulnerabilities and ensure effective mitigation strategies are in place
• Manage security operations, threat intelligence, monitoring, and the deployment of advanced security tools and technologies for effective incident management
• Collaborated with C-suite executives to integrate cybersecurity into business continuity planning and digital transformation initiatives.
• Guided the organization through compliance standards such as PDPL, SAMA, CBO, ISO 27001, PCI DSS ensuring zero non-compliance issues during audits
• Develop and implement data governance and protection strategies, leveraging expertise as a DPO to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and data privacy laws.
• Spearheaded the adoption of AI-powered threat detection systems, reducing incident detection time by 60%.

• Lead the role of CISO - leading the Security function across all the global telco and fintech operations
• Security review and risk management of Digital and IOT initiatives
• Development and implementation of the security roadmap leading to considerable decrease of cyber attacks by 70%
• Drive Data centric security initiative in the organization

• Responsible for Risk assessments and compliance reviews on critical infrastructure, services and assets
• Develop Security Architecture for all projects and aligned them with the corporate control framework
• Develop and Certify Architectural guidelines, standards based NIST, ISMS and ISO standards
• Expert in technical risk mitigation
• Develop SOA standards and network blueprints
• Expert in establishing e2e security on Greenfield projects such as data centers for enterprise and telecom solutions
• Provide Security Awareness sessions and technical advisory on telecom and corporate solution

• Deployed nation wide Data Centers for telco servies and managed networks for large DC's
• Lead the Planning and Design department of the Mobile IP Transport Network and the Service Delivery Platforms network
• Implemented Nationwide IP backhauling project estimated at $150 Million investment
• Played crucial role in the nationwide launch of LTE and HSDPA (3g) IP Network
• Led project that build nationwide IP core network estimated at $100 Million investment
• Implemented POI and transit services setup
• Build SDP services for IPTV, Voice and mobile services

• Responsible for leading a nation wide network operations for fixed networks with team responsible for managing NOC complaints, Data-Network Activation and Data-Network Projects and Outage team
• Managed reporting function that runs 24x7 monitoring of the fixed line, triple play services

• Served as a Data Network Engineer (level 3) implemented national development projects
• Implemented nationwide POP's for Tecom, Palm-Jumeirah, JBR, JLT etc
• Responsible to perform advanced configuration on MPLS, BGP, OSPF, Switching, and DPT-SRP
• Designed, configured and implemented projects like implementing IGW, HIPCC to the Du IP cloud network

• Provide professional services to customers based on their requirement and design networks with emphasis on security and support of LAN/WAN solutions
• Redesigned the network with an emphasis on security technologies (Firewall, IDS and PVLAN implementation)
• Served as systems security expert with responsibility for Cisco security solutions, Cisco Firewalls, IOS software features, VPN and evaluation of security threats
• Responsible for the overall security of the datacenter network hosting 300 customers

In charge of IT infrastructure of the organization that consisted of installation configuration and administration Cisco Routers, Switches and servers