Sivarama Subramanian

Sivarama Subramanian, CISM has over 30 years of work experience in the field of IT security. Sivarama currently serves as the Head of Security and Compliance at CoreStack, where they are responsible for leading security and compliance initiatives and driving the compliance stack for the CoreStack product. This involves providing compliance overviews of cloud services for subscribed customers with respect to regulatory compliance and security standards.

Prior to their current role, Sivarama worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions for nine years. Sivarama held the positions of Principal Security Architect and Senior Security Architect, leading teams of security analysts and managing large application security programs for various Fortune 500 clients. Their expertise includes dynamic and static application security testing, secure SDLC consulting, secure architecture, secure design, and mobile security.

Before joining Cognizant, Sivarama served as the Practice Lead for Application Security at SDG Software India Pvt Ltd for ten years. Their responsibilities included leading the application security practice, specializing in secure SDLC, vulnerability/penetration testing, and secure code review. Sivarama was also a member of ISACA during this time.

In addition, Sivarama worked at SDG Software India Pvt Ltd as a Practice Lead for Identity Management, leading various end-to-end identity management projects. Sivarama was involved in solution design and implementation.

At SDG Corporation, Sivarama worked as a Technical Lead on various J2EE based projects. Sivarama played a key role in building an in-house delegated administration project based on Java/LDAP/AD to manage mailboxes and RSA SecurID tokens.

Sivarama began their career at Polaris Software Lab, where they worked for eight years. Starting as an Assistant System Manager, they worked on several projects for Citibank.

During their career, Sivarama also served as a Consultant at Saudi American Bank for two years.

Overall, Sivarama has extensive experience in IT security, with a focus on areas such as compliance, vulnerability management, application security, identity management, and secure code review.

Sivarama Subramanian, CISM, has a strong educational background with a focus on computer science and general management. From 1989 to 1992, they attended Madurai Kamaraj University and MDT Hindu college, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Additionally, they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University during the same time period.

Later, from 2000 to 2003, they pursued their Master of Business Administration (MBA) in General Management from California Coast University.

In terms of certifications, Sivarama Subramanian is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) by ISACA, although the specific dates of when they obtained this certification are not provided in the available information.