Curriculum Vitae

Dikshant Lather

Cybersecurity Consultant • CSPM Specialist • Solutions Architect • Big 4

Work Experience

Big 4 Consulting Firm

Cloud Security Team • Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) & Microsoft Defender for Cloud

August 2025 – Present

Leading cloud posture assessments across enterprise multi-subscription cloud footprints.
Operationalizing Microsoft Defender for Cloud to enforce continuous regulatory compliance (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001).
Developing automated remediation playbooks for cloud vulnerability management and configuration drift.
Pioneering security guardrails and threat modeling frameworks for emerging AI/ML workload pipelines.

Infoedge

Infrastructure Engineering • Observability, OpenTelemetry & Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

May 2022 – ~2025 (~3 Years)

Architected distributed tracing and telemetry collection pipelines using OpenTelemetry.
Engineered centralized monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation infrastructure across large-scale services.
Hardened operational telemetry pipelines with PII scrubbing and automated audit trails.

Exact end date and specific team metrics pending verification from uploaded LinkedIn profile.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud CSPM CWPP CIEM Azure Security Center AWS Security Hub

Azure Entra ID (SC-300) Zero-Trust Architecture Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Conditional Access

Azure Solutions Architecture (AZ-305) GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) GitHub Actions (GH-300) Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Azure Monitor Log Analytics Prometheus Grafana Distributed Tracing

OWASP Top 10 for LLMs Prompt Injection Defense Model Pipeline Hardening Data Leakage Prevention

Holder of 14 professional certifications across Cloud Architecture, Security, DevOps, and Identity.

AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert

SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert

GH-500 GitHub Advanced Security

Available for asynchronous and overlapping-hours consulting advisory across key global time zones: