Sukanya Subramanian

• Technical Cybersecurity & Compliance: Leading cybersecurity activities, ensuring adherence to ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE WP.29 standards.
• Project & Product Management: Managing cybersecurity-related projects and contributing to the development and alignment of cybersecurity services with business goals.
• Customer & Stakeholder Collaboration: Working closely with engineering teams, project managers, and business units to integrate cybersecurity solutions into product lifecycles.
• Process Development & Optimization: Refining cybersecurity workflows and ensuring operational efficiency.
• Market & Competitive Analysis: Researching cybersecurity trends, risk factors, and competitive landscapes to shape strategic initiatives.
• Financial & Business Strategy: Collaborating with the finance team to discuss project finances, including hourly pricing for different locations.
• Cybersecurity Product Development: Defining cybersecurity products and expanding service offerings in coordination with the sales team to align with market demands.
• Supplier Management: Managing supplier relationships for cybersecurity services, including contract negotiations and pricing discussions to ensure compliance with standards and alignment with business needs.

• Strategic Cybersecurity Leadership: Aligned cybersecurity management systems with ISO 21434 and UNECE regulations.
• Team & Project Coordination: Led a 9-member cybersecurity team, optimizing cybersecurity integration in product development.
• Business & Market Strategy: Developed cybersecurity solutions aligned with market needs and business objectives.
• Cybersecurity Risk & Compliance: Oversaw Threat Analysis and Risk Assessments (TARA) and guided risk mitigation strategies.
• Supplier Collaboration: Worked with suppliers to enhance cybersecurity service offerings, including contract discussions and pricing agreements to facilitate seamless integration into existing systems.

• Product Security & Risk Management: Led cybersecurity efforts in product development, ensuring ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE WP.29 compliance.
• Cybersecurity Service Strategy: Defined security concepts for automotive systems and worked on the integration of cybersecurity into product lifecycles.
• Project management: To plan, organize, monitor, and control the Cyber Security relevant work products in the projects; ensuring efficient utilization of technical resources and appropriate mitigation of risk to achieve project objectives. To lead the cyber security activities in core and application projects in compliance with ISO/SAE 21434, UNECE WP.29, ZF CEP and ZF GDPEP
• Cross-functional Leadership: Worked closely with engineering, sales, and customer teams to align cybersecurity solutions with business goals.
• Customer & Business Consulting: Acted as a cybersecurity consultant for both internal teams and external clients, ensuring effective implementation of security solutions.

• Processes Development: Process and Method development according to ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE regulations on Cybersecurity and Participated in the development of ISO/SAE 21434 standard.
• Security Assessment: Analysis and modelling of threats and attack potentials (Threat Analysis) and performing risk assessment (TARA). Performing security & privacy assessments on our products throughout the development and product lifecycle (Vulnerability Management).
• Technical Support: Identifying, developing, and evaluating security measures to mitigate risks. Analysis and evaluation of security requirements for products. To design system, hardware, and software architectures in EA (UML) and in MS Visio. Development of innovative cyber security concepts and functions for vehicle systems according to current standards (SAE J3061, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 62443, etc).

Technical support: MATLAB programming developer. Design, programming, and further development of Fuel cell.

Technical support: Design, programming, and further development of more realistic, machine vision and Image processing applications. Documentation, development and maintaining Test results in Excel.