Author • Security Practitioner

Hardening Enterprise Cloud & Securing the AI Frontier

Hello, I am Dikshant Lather. Currently serving as a Cybersecurity Consultant at a Big 4 consulting firm (August 2025 – Present), I specialize in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Prior to my current consulting role, I spent approximately 3 years at Infoedge (May 2022 – ~2025) engineering observability, distributed telemetry with OpenTelemetry, and resilient cloud monitoring pipelines.

With 14 industry certifications including AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) and SC-100 (Cybersecurity Architect Expert), my focus is bridging the gap between enterprise infrastructure governance and modern AI workloads — mitigating prompt injection vectors, establishing Zero-Trust identity controls, and automating compliance.

Dikshant Lather

Dikshant Lather

Cybersecurity Consultant @ Big 4

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Focus: CSPM & Defender for Cloud
Credentials: 14 Microsoft & GitHub Certs
Regions: AU, NZ, CA, US
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Professional Trajectory

Current

Cybersecurity Consultant

Big 4 Consulting Firm

Aug 2025 – Present

Specializing in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and operationalizing Microsoft Defender for Cloud across multi-cloud environments.

Defender for Cloud CSPM Azure Policy
Previous

Observability & Systems Specialist

Infoedge

May 2022 – ~2025

Architected distributed observability pipelines using OpenTelemetry across distributed services. Automated log aggregation and distributed tracing.

OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing Prometheus

14 Verified Certifications

Credentials verified across Microsoft Azure, Security & Identity, and GitHub DevSecOps.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AZ-305

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
SC-100

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
AZ-104

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
AZ-400

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
AI-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
AI-901

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft Specialty
Microsoft Certified: Azure Business Fundamentals
AB-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Business Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
SC-900

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
SC-300

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate
SC-401

Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
GitHub Certified: GitHub Foundations
GH-900

GitHub Certified: GitHub Foundations

GitHub Certified
GitHub Certified: GitHub Actions
GH-300

GitHub Certified: GitHub Actions

GitHub Certified
GitHub Certified: GitHub Advanced Security
GH-500

GitHub Certified: GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Certified