PGDM (General Management) · Batch 2026-27
Megh Poddar
I'm an MBA student at XLRI Jamshedpur with 3.5 years in cybersecurity consulting for BFSI clients at Deloitte, where I led large-scale information security transformation engagements for major financial institutions. I managed cross-functional teams, conducted leadership and employee awareness trainings, and partnered with senior client stakeholders to strengthen security practices. Recognized for clear thinking, proactive leadership, and consistently exceeding client expectations. I believe effective leadership comes from combining structured problem-solving with clear communication and empathy.
Work experience
38 months in total
- Deloitte38 months
Career highlights
Information Security Awareness lead
- Oversaw delivery of 200+ digital assets for cybersecurity awareness by collaborating with a creative agency. Guided the team on simplifying complex cybersecurity terms for larger audience and designed concepts to ensure maximum retention, by creatively conveying details of latest cyber frauds and advisories.
- Educated bank’s 54-crore customer base, by delivering 100+ customer facing cybersecurity awareness assets, in the form of social media videos, reels, carousel and static posts, to reduce susceptibility to fraud, promote safe online practices, and encourage reporting of suspicious activities. Achieved over 65-Million views on a single Instagram post and over half a Billion views cumulatively.
- Designed comprehensive Information Security Awareness sessions ensuring a collection of latest frauds and threats of emerging technology. Presented weekly trainings, spanning 90 minutes with new themes every month, for over 2-lakh client employees and vendor partners across the globe.
- Coordinated with various stakeholders such as client’s management, social media team, creative agency and Deloitte team to secure timely approvals for public facing deliverables
Vulnerability Assessment and Configuration Assessment (VACA) lead,
- Spearheaded the planning and execution of automated VACA across 4 major clients in BFSI sector.
- Built the entire VACA process from scratch for clients by setting up tools like Qualys and Nessus in their environment. Ensured pre-requisites for the tool and aligned various teams, such as system operations, infrastructure, application owners and SOC, to expedite vetting of applications and deploying for security patches.
- Performed ad hoc and quarterly VACA scans on 2000+ critical servers, reporting over 990k vulnerabilities and configuration gaps. Further supported client teams in reducing the total to less than 5000 open observations within first 6 months, thereby strengthening organizations security posture.
- Mentored a team of 2-4, to create Secure Configuration Documents (SCD) for the organization. These documents ensure baseline security across all hardware and software used by organization, helping them meet regulatory compliance.
- Conducted VA scan for 10,000 endpoints in under 2 months at one of the client. Observations of this VA report exceeded single MS Excel’s limit many times over, solved this by creating a data model, fetching data from 30 spreadsheets to efficiently present actionable insights to client’s management.
Project lead,
- Facilitated closing of various compliance targets by delegating tasks amongst various SMEs within Deloitte and ensuring timely delivery of reports across activities such as Secure Network Assessment, Process Review, Firewall Rule Review and Vulnerability Assessment.
Achievements
- Received a promotion from Analyst to Senior Analyst at Deloitte, top 4/50 analysts for exemplary contribution in managing client, leading a team and firm contribution by volunteering as Deloitte’s Mental Health Champion.
- Conducted multiple trainings at Deloitte for new joiners (batch of 12-14) to transfer my knowledge of Vulnerability Assessment and Configuration Assessment using tools like Qualys and Nessus along with troubleshooting solutions.
- Won silver medal in Kabaddi at Mithibai College’s annual sports day 2019, out of 40 players.
Certifications
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH V13)
- Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
- Amazon -AWS Cloud Practitioner
