Surya Phani Sankar Samavedam

I’m a senior cybersecurity professional with 16+ years in IT and 6+ years specializing in enterprise vulnerability management. I design, deploy, and operate vulnerability management programs that turn CVE data into actionable, risk-based remediation.

In my current role at Zelis Healthcare Solutions, I lead vulnerability assessment and management using Tenable Nessus and Tenable.io across 2,000+ assets. I prioritize findings with CVE analysis and CVSS-based risk prioritization, manage Nessus agents across on-premises and cloud environments, and deliver executive reporting on security posture and SLA compliance.

Previously at Tech Mahindra, I owned vulnerability management initiatives for clients including Macmillan and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, supporting regular scanning across 3,000+ assets. I improved outcomes through SLA-driven ServiceNow workflows, achieved a 40% year-over-year reduction in critical vulnerabilities, and supported HIPAA compliance with strong audit readiness.

I also bring depth in cloud security and application protection—AWS (IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF, Systems Manager) and Azure (VMs, Subscriptions, Defender), plus Imperva WAF and AWS WAF. I’m comfortable collaborating cross-functionally on remediation governance, incident support with exposure intelligence, and infrastructure hardening, patch management, and baseline configuration enforcement.