Cybersecurity Analyst · Senior · 10+ yrs
Gurpreet Singh Bedi
Head of Security Operations / SOC Director
Professional summary
Security leader with 13 years building and running security operations across banking, fintech and global SaaS. Sets enterprise security strategy and architecture, leads a 22-person SOC and threat-intelligence org, and reports cyber risk to the board and audit committee. Drove ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications, slashed incident dwell time and breach exposure, and owns a multi-crore security budget with measurable risk-reduction outcomes.
45k
Endpoints under defense
₹2.6Cr
Annual tooling cost saved
22
SOC analysts led
Skills
Leadership & strategy
Governance & risk
Detection & response
Architecture
Work experience
Head of Security Operations (Deputy CISO) · Meridian Bank
Feb 2019 – PresentGurugram
- Lead a 22-person SOC, threat-intel and vulnerability-management org defending 45,000 endpoints and 60M+ daily events across retail and corporate banking.
- Set the 3-year security strategy and architecture roadmap; cut mean time to respond 58% and reduced material-incident exposure to zero confirmed breaches over 4 years.
- Own a ₹14 crore annual security budget; consolidated 9 tools into a unified SIEM/SOAR/EDR stack, saving ₹2.6 crore/year while improving coverage.
- Led the enterprise ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and quarterly RBI cyber-resilience reporting, clearing audits with zero major non-conformities.
- Report quarterly cyber risk to the board and audit committee; built the KRI dashboard that frames risk in business and financial terms.
- Established a purple-team and penetration-testing program that found and remediated 5 critical attack paths before exploitation.
SOC Manager / Lead Security Analyst · Polaris Payments
May 2015 – Jan 2019Mumbai
- Built a 24x7 SOC from the ground up — staffing, SIEM (Splunk) deployment and playbooks — achieving PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance for a payments platform handling ₹40,000 crore/year.
- Cut incident dwell time 64% by introducing tiered triage, threat hunting and automated containment.
Security Analyst → Senior Analyst · Earlier roles — Wipro, TCS
2012 – 2015India
- Delivered vulnerability assessments, firewall hardening and incident response for enterprise clients; promoted twice for technical depth and client trust.
Education
B.Tech Information Technology
2012Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh
Certifications
CISSP
ISC2 · 2018
CISM
ISACA · 2020
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor
PECB · 2019
Selected achievements
Maintained zero confirmed material breaches across 4 years while defending 45,000 endpoints and 60M+ daily events.
Saved ₹2.6 crore/year by consolidating 9 security tools into a unified SIEM/SOAR/EDR platform.
Led enterprise ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications with zero major non-conformities.
Speaker, Nullcon Goa 2024 — "Reporting cyber risk the board will actually act on."
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