Anchal Nigam
Senior Principal Security Architect at Verizon
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAnchal Nigam is a Senior Principal Security Architect in the New York City area with two decades of hands-on experience building and hardening enterprise identity, access, and infrastructure security. Currently leading security architecture at Verizon, she previously drove privileged access transformations and IAM programs at Bank of America, cutting inappropriate entitlements by 35% and mentoring teams to automate controls. She brings rare combined expertise in UNIX/Linux operations, risk and audit compliance (ITIL/COBIT), and large-scale project delivery—having managed hundreds of projects and consistently passed every IT audit. Known for pragmatic automation (custom SharePoint and scripting solutions) and a hands-on leadership style, she translates compliance requirements into scalable, auditable controls across global teams.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Christopher Newport University
Hindi, English
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Github contributions (5)
imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.
Contributions:176 commits, 37 PRs, 181 pushes in 3 years 6 months
how-to-guidelinux-serversecuritylinuxintrusion-detection
imthenachoman/nGitHubTOC
Feb 2019 - May 2021
a simple web page to quickly create table of content markdown for GitHub markdown files
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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