OPEN TO SECURITY LEADERSHIP ROLES

Hello, I'm Satish.
Nice to meet you.

I lead IT infrastructure and end user support at YASH Technologies, on the Rush University Medical Center engagement — running vulnerability management, endpoint hardening, and compliance-aligned service delivery across 30,000+ endpoints.

Living in Chicago, Illinois
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0+ yrs
Enterprise IT & security operations
30,000+
Endpoints governed, HIPAA-regulated
Tier 1–3
Support organizations led
IEEE
Senior Member · book author · 6 papers
TOOLING & PLATFORMS
The stack I run security operations on
TaniumMicrosoft SCCMIntune Vulnerability ManagementWSUSCIS Benchmarks Group Policy HardeningAntivirus Posture
ServiceNow ITSMCMDB & DiscoveryHIPAA ISO 27001SOC 2Azure AD VMwareMajor Incident Command
About me

I've spent eighteen years running end user support and infrastructure operations at enterprise scale — healthcare, state government, and global accounts. The last several have focused on the operational side of security: patch compliance, CIS hardening, audit readiness, and the reporting that keeps leadership honest about risk.

My approach is pragmatic. Security controls only matter if the people running the service desk can execute them, so I translate frameworks — HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 — into SOPs, dashboards, and escalation paths that hold up under audit and under pressure.

CISM, PMP, and ITIL certified, with an MBA in Management Information Systems from Osmania University. I'm also an IEEE Senior Member and author — see the research below.

CISM PMP IEEE SENIOR MEMBER ITIL V3 AZURE ADMIN VMWARE VCP-DCV CSM CSPO MCITP
Experience
2024 — CURRENT
IT Infrastructure & End User Support Lead / YASH Technologies
On assignment at Rush University Medical Center, owning EUIO governance for 30,000+ HIPAA-regulated endpoints — ServiceNow ITSM lifecycle, RCA partnership with cybersecurity, and C-suite reporting on SLA, risk, and service health.
2023 — 2024
Project Lead, End User Support & Infra Ops / Technology Crest
Statewide Tier 1–3 support governance for the California Department of Social Services — escalation design, rollout readiness, and government-grade SLA adherence for a distributed workforce.
2020 — 2023
Unified Systems Lead / IBM & Kyndryl
Built CIS hardening and GPO remediation frameworks; governed patch compliance, antivirus posture, and DR readiness; led ServiceNow Discovery and CMDB reconciliation.
2015 — 2020
Solution Designer / HCL Technologies
Directed EUC, security operations, and helpdesk governance for global accounts including Disney and Volvo — SOPs, audit workflows, and compliance reporting frameworks.
2014 — 2015
Technical Lead / XIUS
Led an ISO 27001 ISMS upgrade and DR site migrations; ran AD and Exchange O365 migrations across 10 Latin American enterprise accounts.
Earlier — Praxis-I Technologies · EENADU Group · Unitech Cyber Services (2006 – 2014)
Research & writing
Full record on ORCID →
Cover of Securing Critical Infrastructure Through Vulnerability Management by Satish Kumar Allani
BOOK · 2026

Securing Critical Infrastructure Through Vulnerability ManagementAuthor

Gurucool · 2026 · ISBN 978-93-76024827
A practitioner's framework for vulnerability management in critical infrastructure — from exposure discovery through governance, remediation, and audit-readiness.

Amazon → Read sample →

  1. Harnessing AI for Patch Prioritization and Zero-Day ResponseLead author

    ISACA Journal · 2026, Volume 5

    PUBLISHEDPatch ManagementAIZero-Day Response
    Read on ISACA →

  2. The Global Ransomware Epidemic: Evaluating the Economic and Clinical Toll on Low- and Middle-Income Country Healthcare SystemsLead author

    International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM) · Vol. 18, No. 2 · 2026

    PUBLISHEDRansomwareHealthcare SecurityRisk
    View article → PDF →

  3. Medical Device Defence: Closing the Vulnerability Gap in Hospital EnvironmentsLead author

    SSRN · 2026

    PUBLISHEDMedical DevicesVulnerability ManagementHealthcare Security
    Read on SSRN →

  4. Extended Security Update Governance in Healthcare: Managing End-of-Life Windows Environments Under HIPAA and CISA Compliance MandatesLead author

    SSRN · 2026

    PUBLISHEDHIPAAWindows EOLCISA Compliance
    Read on SSRN →

  5. The Metamorphosis of Access: Strategic Imperatives for Identity 3.0 and Zero Trust Integration in Critical InfrastructureCo-author

    IEEE SmartNets 2026 (CyberSec CIIA)

    PUBLISHEDZero TrustIdentity 3.0Critical Infrastructure
    IEEE Xplore →

  6. CyberFuse-CL: Adversarially Resilient Vulnerability Detection Through Heterogeneous Multi-Source Data Fusion and LLM-Augmented ReasoningCo-author

    ICETCI 2026

    UNDER REVIEWLLM SecurityVulnerability DetectionData Fusion
Profiles: Google Scholar ORCID Credly
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01 / VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Enterprise patch & endpoint compliance program
Fleet-wide patch compliance and antivirus posture across 30,000+ endpoints using Tanium, SCCM/Intune, and WSUS. Trend reporting converts raw exposure data into a prioritized remediation queue the support org actually works through, with monthly compliance posture reported to leadership.
TANIUMSCCM / INTUNEHIPAA
02 / HARDENING
CIS benchmark hardening & GPO remediation framework
Built at IBM/Kyndryl: a reusable hardening baseline mapped to CIS benchmarks and delivered through Group Policy, paired with SOPs written so infrastructure and support teams could execute remediation without a security specialist in the room.
CIS BENCHMARKSGROUP POLICYDR READINESS
03 / GOVERNANCE
Compliance-aligned ServiceNow ITSM operation
End-to-end ITSM governance — incident, problem, change, CMDB, and knowledge — with SLA and KPI dashboards mapped to HIPAA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 evidence requirements, plus Discovery-driven CMDB reconciliation to keep asset data audit-ready.
SERVICENOWISO 27001SOC 2
04 / RESILIENCE
ISO 27001 ISMS upgrade & DR site migration
Led the ISMS upgrade and disaster-recovery site migration at XIUS, alongside Active Directory and Exchange O365 migrations across ten Latin American enterprise accounts — sequenced to hold continuity and audit evidence through every cutover.
ISO 27001DISASTER RECOVERYAD / O365
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Security isn't a separate team — it's how every ticket, patch, and escalation gets handled. My job is to make the secure path the default path for the people doing the work.
SATISH KUMAR ALLANI