Summary
Vishal Pandey is a cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience and more than 15 years in advisory and incident response for Fortune 50 and major financial clients. As Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal he blends deep technical expertise—red teaming, forensics, threat hunting—with strategic CISO advisory and cyber-resilience program design. He has led high-profile breach responses, multi-million-dollar security transformation programs, and tabletop threat simulations across finance, media, healthcare, and retail. Previously a VP at Stroz Friedberg and senior roles at Protiviti and Verisign, he pairs hands-on technical assessment skills with program and engagement management. Early-career software development experience (C/C++) and SANS forensic/legal trainings give him a practical, investigator’s perspective that informs both offensive testing and executive-level risk guidance.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
BE, Electrical Engineering, BE, Electrical Engineering at North Gujarat University
FOR408: Windows Forensic Analysis, Completed, FOR408: Windows Forensic Analysis, Completed at The SANS Institute
Hindi, Gujarati, English