Jacob Varughese
Cyber Technology Risk Advisor at Kimberly-Clark
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Varughese is a Cyber Technology Risk Advisor with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering compliance-driven security solutions across enterprise, defense, and cloud environments. He combines deep technical roots in Solaris and Linux system security—demonstrated by leading OpenSCAP porting and probe fixes for Solaris—with practical program-level expertise in NIST, CMMC, PCI, SOX, FedRAMP and DFARS compliance. Jacob has driven large-scale third-party and application risk assessments, vendor controls for SaaS/PaaS, and implemented access controls and MFA to measurably improve security posture for global teams in NA and EMEA. His career blends engineering rigor (patching, STIGs, Nessus scans, ManageEngine logs) with governance and audit readiness, repeatedly closing POAMs and supporting successful internal and external audits. Notably, his platform-specific work on OpenSCAP and Solaris RBAC highlights an uncommon combination of open-source contributions and enterprise compliance delivery.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Engg., B.Tech, Computer Engg. at Manipal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
c1710
debugging10
debug10
oval10
solaris10
c1110
scanning9
system-administration9
compliance8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
OpenSCAP/openscap
Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
NIST Certified SCAP 1.2 toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on fixing build and runtime issues within the `openscap/openscap` repository, specifically targeting the Solaris operating system. Their commits addressed build failures, debug logging problems, and incorrect file probe behavior. The user also worked on improving the systeminfo and textfilecontent54 probes for Solaris, demonstrating a focus on platform-specific compatibility and reliability.
nistdata-streamxccdfovalsecurity
OpenIndiana/oi-userland
Jan 2013 - Nov 2016
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Contributions:40 commits in 3 years 10 months
esxioperating-systemrisk-assessmentredfishillumos
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