HELLO!

I’m Ivan Talwar

ABOUT ME

My Background

I am an experienced Information Security (InfoSec) professional that thrive best by aligning the information security goals with those of the business. Being a CISO, I work with a business advisor mindset and act as a trusted infosec stakeholder to assist the organization in not merely fulfilling their bare minimum infosec obligations; but to excel in the area. I have been actively engaging in the education sector with other universities to share my views, ideas and methodologies that are propelling us to be one of the best in the sector. My past operations experiences combined with my formal education in InfoSec management and recent job responsibilities places me in a special place where I can operate in both administrative as well as technical capacities to drive the business towards success. I frequently speak on public platforms to voice my opinions on different aspects of information security.

Being a student, I was fortunate enough to be provided some great platforms and exposure in huge arenas to showcase my know‐how in the subject. I represented Norway at Cyber9/12 Challenge at Geneva, Switzerland (organized by the likes of NATO, Deloitte etc.) as the squad leader for the Norway where I led the team of two academics and two cyber defense students. In October of 2018, I was the part of the Norwegian team that won the Thinkathon (by Interpol) in Singapore. Consequently, I was re‐invited to give a keynote at their assembly in January, 2019 in Singapore.

I like to connect with the mission and vision of an organization that drives me to achieve goals that might seem distant in very short amount of time. Having oversaw both small and big teams, I understand the essence of good leadership to lead teams to success.

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MY EXPERIENCE

Roles & Responsibilities

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Kristiania University College

February 2020 - Till date

Information Security stakeholder at Kristiania. Areas covered in the portfolio are GRC, SecOps, DevSecOps, Privacy (GDPR), Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery.

Senior Manager (Cyber Risk), Deloitte Norway

September 2021 - December 2021

CISO for Hire, Cyber Maturity Assessments and Gap Analysis, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment and Management

Information Security Advisor, Kristiania University College

March 2019 - January 2020

• Identify, evaluate and mitigate IT risks on an ongoing basis.
• Create and execute the mitigation plans by coordinating with the other teams within the IT team.
• Review the existing IT policies and make amendments based on the current threat landscape of the sector.
• Liaise with other stakeholders (departments) like HR, Student Administration, Leadership group at school and representatives from different schools (under HK umbrella).
• Create an IT Threat Report annually (specific to the school) that shows the relevant threat actors and vectors, vulnerabilities and basic immediate mitigation steps (already implemented within one quarter after joining HK).

• Additionally, work closely with the IT Operations department to lead/supervise infrastructural change projects due to hands on experience in technologies like Office 365, Microsoft Azure, etc.
• Coordinate with Data Privacy Officer (DPO) in creating Incident reports (Avvik) to report incidents to Datatilsynet whenever any norms of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are not met. Additionally, perform Data Protection Impact Analysis (DPIA) as accorded in GDPR for any new application procurement or creating to form the legal basis to collect the data.

IT Consultant, Oceaneering AS

November 2014 - October 2017

Experience with Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, SharePoint, Lync, Exchange, Office 365, G-Apps, Citrix XenApp, SCCM, SCSM, Cisco technology – switches, Access points, Call Manager, Jabber and other Data-center maintenance related tasks.

Global Service Center Supervisor (IT), Oceaneering

May 2011 - October 2014

Leading a team of 20 employees and supervise their day to day work, ensuring quality of the work and reporting back to the management, liaise with other teams globally being the central IT unit – Global IT helpdesk and travel around the world to different Oceaneering locations to establish synergies.

RECOGNITIONS

My Achievements

SQUAD LEADER FOR NORWEGIAN TEAM AT CYBER 9/12 CHALLENGE (ATLANTIC COUNCIL/ NATO)

April 2018

Squad Leader for Norwegian Contingency (team consisted of people from Academia and Norwegian Cyber Defense division of army) where teams like Westpoint (prestigious American Military Academy) participated.

WINNERS FOR INTERPOL'S THINKATHON IN SINGAPORE

October 2018

Represented Norway/NTNU at this event in Singapore headquarters of Interpol. Secured the first place.

INVITED FOR A KEYNOTE BY INTERPOL IN SINGAPORE

January 2019

Presented the ideas, vulnerabilities and opportunities by implementing “the smart” factor in our modern day cities - both from a policing and adversarial prospective.

EDUCATION

My Studies

MASTERS IN INFORMATION SECURITY, NTNU

August 2017 - December 2019

Studied Information Security (InfoSec) Technology that broadly covers aspects like InfoSec Management, Digital forensics processes and techniques, Post incident response, Cyber Crime investigation, Cryptology, Risk assessment against IT Infrastructure vulnerabilities, Disaster recovery, System Security Metrics, Socio-technical approach towards InfoSec, Malware Analysis and Reverse engineering, Critical Infrastructure security, Network Security etc.