About

Sonal Thapliyal is a skilled cloud consulting professional with a passion for application development and cybersecurity. With a strong background in Azure secure cloud architecture, she has been instrumental in helping clients mature their cloud architecture and improve their overall security posture. Sonal has a deep understanding of secure-cloud configuration, cloud-security technologies, and cloud-permission systems (IAM). She is a subject matter expert in identifying control gaps, designing additional controls and test procedures to cover the control gaps, testing their implementation, and tracking the identified implementation gaps for remediation. Her expertise in vulnerability management and secure code review has helped organizations improve their cybersecurity resilience. Apart from cloud consulting, Sonal has also been involved in application development projects using the spring boot framework in Java. Her experience in banking security and compliance and frameworks like ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, NIST, etc., has given her an in-depth knowledge of the regulatory landscape. Currently working as an Application Development Analyst at Accenture, Sonal has also worked as an Engineer at Capgemini in the past. She holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Graphic Era Hill University. Sonal's tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Spring, and Azure. With 4.44 years of relevant experience, she is a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional who is passionate about helping organizations improve their cloud architecture and cybersecurity posture. She is also an advocate for women in cybersecurity and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry.