Vikrant Rai

Executive summary

Vikrant Rai is an Advisory leader in Grant Thornton’s Cyber and Risk practice delivering IT, Cybersecurity and AI risk management solution capabilities that address board priorities and address strategic agendas around Cyber, and AI adoption and risk management. He is an accomplished and versatile professional with over 20+ years of management consulting experience where his demonstrated success is based on precision planning, execution, team building and leadership skills.

He has experience leading several IT, and Cybersecurity and risk transformation programs for large and mid-size companies working with CIO’s, CISO’s, Legal, Privacy and Internal Audit departments. His contribution to thought leadership was highlighted on the topic of cloud security with the American Banker, and more recently with the IIA Global Best Practices on “A Roadmap to Auditing Cloud Security”.

Experience

Vik’s work experience includes leading IT, Cybersecurity and cloud security, assisting clients in various areas of technology risks - these include Responsible AI with run-time governance, AI model risk evaluation, IT & Cybersecurity program design, Cloud and infrastructure security, data governance and data protection and other specialized areas such as business resiliency (BCP/DR), ransomware preparedness, incident response, and third-party/supply chain risk management.

His experience also includes designing and implementing Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) technology solutions, and has experience with GRC management tools (e.g., RSA Archer, MetricStream, ServiceNow and AuditBoard).

Vik has led the implementation of strategic IT and Cybersecurity risk management programs, including program design, development of risk management methodology aligned to industry leading practices for managing IT, Cybersecurity and data privacy risks. He led the effort for strategic planning, and phased execution of solution development effort scaling from IT to Privacy, Risk, and Compliance teams.

He has served clients across multiple highly regulated industries, most recently focusing on Banking, Financial Services and Asset Management.

Professional qualifications and Memberships

Vik is an active contributor to the new IIA standards on matters related to Cybersecurity auditing, he is also a speaker at IIA Chapter conferences on emerging trends on artificial intelligence and machine learning, he holds following professional licenses and memberships:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• ISO/IEC 27001 Certified Lead Auditor
• ISO/IEC 27001 Trained Lead Implementor
• Member - (ISC)2
• Member ISACA – New Jersey

Education

• Vik holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India.
• MIT Professional Education - Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation.