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Kanwarjit Singh

@kanwarjitsingh

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I lead cyber defense, resilience, and technology risk for mission-critical IT and OT environments.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking senior cybersecurity leadership roles where I can secure high-consequence environments through resilient operations, technology risk governance, AI-driven detection, zero-trust architecture, and clear accountability.

I've led cyber defense, technology risk, and resilience across mission-critical military IT, surveillance, communications, and OT environments for more than two decades.

In the Indian Army, I currently command a Blue Team that established and operationalised SOC, CERT, digital forensics, application security, IT audit, and OT/ICS security capabilities. My team sustained zero successful adversarial intrusions in warlike conditions and 100% uptime across mission-critical infrastructure.

I previously raised and commanded a 1,000-strong specialized regiment, delivering a national Network for Spectrum project across 12 states, 5,000 km of optical fiber, 110+ access nodes, and 10,000+ endpoints. I also led cybersecurity training for 300+ officers and NCOs through cyber ranges, malware analysis, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and red/blue team simulations.

I'm focused on helping organizations protect high-consequence environments through AI-driven detection, zero-trust architectures, robust governance, and accountable incident response.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Head of Technology Risk & Governance - Blue Team (Colonel)

Indian Army

Apr 2024 - Jul 2026 (2 years 3 months)

Led the unified cyber defense function for a mission-critical military command — established and operationalised SOC, CERT, Digital Forensics, Application Security, IT Audit and OT/ICS Security — sustaining an uncompromised security posture through warlike conditions.
→ Commanded a specialized Cyber Blue Team protecting critical assets, achieving zero successful adversarial intrusions even during

Deputy CISO (Colonel)

Indian Army

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year)

Managed end-to-end IT, telecom and cybersecurity operations across Leh/Ladakh — among the world's most demanding terrains, where extreme altitude and narrow repair windows make reliability mission-critical.
→ Sustained availability and reliability of networking, telecom and cyber operations across dispersed high-altitude sites under severe field and logistical constraints.
→ Engineered redundant s

GRC Executive Leadership Cybersecurity Risk Management Security Operations IT Operations Business Continuity Planning Strategic Planning Telecommunications

Chief Executive Officer & CISO (Colonel)

Indian Army

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 (3 years)

Raised and commanded a specialized 1,000-strong regiment, holding full organizational accountability for IT infrastructure, HR, logistics and crisis response — at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic
→ Spearheaded a complex, multi-vendor, pan-India project under the national Network for Spectrum (NFS) program — directing STM-1 (ATM/IP) deployment and the upgrade to DWDM/MPLS across a 5,000 km optical

Joint Director — Security & Compliance, IT & Communication Infrastructure (Lt Co

Indian Army

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)

Managed cybersecurity for an active military command's IT infrastructure — from policy and OS evaluation through hands-on offensive testing and incident response.
→ Directed the command's cybersecurity operations and evaluated a mission-critical Linux environment (BOSS OS) for secure deployment, validating it on both strategic and technical grounds.
→ Authored secure-network-operations policy and

Cybersecurity Security Operations Unified Threat Management Financial Planning Network Management Software Development Budget Management Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Planning Cryptography Network Security Secure Communications Physical Security

Head of Training & Operations (Cybersecurity)- MCTE (Lt Col)

Indian Army

Jan 2014 - Jan 2018 (4 years)

Built the institution's cyber-operations training capability from the ground up — curriculum, labs, cyber range and faculty — preparing hundreds of operators for real adversarial conditions.
→ Directed cyber-operations training for 300+ officers and NCOs across forensics, penetration testing, threat intelligence, cyber wargaming and red/blue team simulation on an in-house cyber range.
→ Designed a

Training and Development Red Teaming Digital Forensics Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Curriculum Development Blue Team Malware Analysis Wargaming Web Application Security IDS IPS Leadership Development

Project Management, Information Systems, Networks and Security (Capt / Major)

Indian Army

Jan 2005 - Jan 2012 (7 years)

First technology leadership role — delivered secure infrastructure and continuity planning during active counter-terrorist operations, in active-conflict zones.
→ Established secure wireless and network infrastructure for a counter-insurgency grid near the Line of Control, running IT and cybersecurity operations in a high-threat environment.
→ Directed classified cyber and signal-intelligence prog