About

Soumen Paul is a highly experienced and passionate lead technical consultant with over 20 years of security experience. He is a vCISO with expertise in cyber security strategy, risk management, and enterprise architecture. Soumen has a track record of developing and delivering large transformation programs, ranging from £200 million to £2 billion, comprising end-to-end systems, applications, network, data, telecom, industrial control systems, safety systems, global data center networks, private/public cloud (AWS/Azure), and end-user products in large global enterprises and service provider environments. Soumen's key skills include bridging principal business risks (including CXO level), business operating model, and information security, integrating people, processes, and technology, end-to-end security architecture in alignment with EA, security design, and security solution architecture, risk-based cyber security strategy, roadmap, planning, and mitigations, and risk management, gap analysis, compliance mapping, security policy, standard, and procedure development. He is a specialist/SME in greenfield projects (including starting from scratch), transformation programs to deliver tactical security in a very short timescale, and plan/delivery of the retrospective mitigations (Waterfall/Agile), security during Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) of large organizations, including both invest and divest scenarios in a highly regulated environment, tech refresh including EOL, tech roadmap alignment, uplift, compliance requirement, etc., digital transformation, E2E migration specialist including technology and process, and experts in transitional states' risk management and delivery of target state, supplier contracts formal audit, and provide recommendations, design, and implementation of regulatory requirements including its technical interpretations and presentations to various stakeholder groups, cyber security defense through secure design/architecture, operational security risk and mitigation plan, and expertise in ISO27000/20000, PCI DSS, DPA, GDPR, COBIT, SPF, HMG, GxP, FDA, HSE, FISMA, FCA, PRA, TOGAF, AWS/Azure, SDLC, NIST, OWASP, SCADA, ICS, PCS, DCS, OT, IoT, etc. Currently, Soumen is the Managing Partner - Security Consulting at bizcarta || secureinteli technologies, leading a large pool of global subject matter experts to deliver cyber security consulting services. He has previously worked as the Founder & Head of Consulting at icyberdefence, a boutique cyber security consulting firm that offers a