Verified Security Professional

Hardening Enterprise Cloud & Securing the AI Frontier

Hello, I am Dikshant Lather. Currently serving as a Security Analyst 3 at EY GDS (August 2025 – Present), I specialize in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Prior to EY GDS, I spent approximately 3 years at Infoedge (May 2022 – ~2025) engineering observability, distributed telemetry with OpenTelemetry, and resilient cloud monitoring pipelines.

With 14 industry certifications including AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) and SC-100 (Cybersecurity Architect Expert), my focus is bridging the gap between enterprise infrastructure governance and modern AI workloads — mitigating prompt injection vectors, establishing Zero-Trust identity controls, and automating compliance.

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OpenPGP Verified CSPM / SecOps

Professional Trajectory

Current Role

Security Analyst 3

EY GDS (Global Delivery Services)

Aug 2025 – Present

Specializing in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and operationalizing Microsoft Defender for Cloud across multi-cloud environments. Developing automated remediation playbooks and security governance frameworks.

Defender for Cloud CSPM Azure Policy AI Security
Previous Experience

Observability & Systems Specialist

Infoedge

May 2022 – ~2025

Architected distributed observability pipelines using OpenTelemetry across distributed services. Automated log aggregation, distributed tracing, alerting, and metric governance.

OpenTelemetry Telemetry Pipelines Prometheus Distributed Tracing

14 Verified Certifications

Credentials verified across Microsoft Azure, Security & Identity, and GitHub DevSecOps.

Expertise: AZ-305 & SC-100 Expert Architect
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AZ-305

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
SC-100

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
AZ-104

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
AZ-400

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
AI-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
AI-901

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft Specialty
Microsoft Certified: Azure Business Fundamentals
AB-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Business Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
SC-900

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Microsoft Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
SC-300

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate
SC-401

Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate

Microsoft Associate
GitHub Certified: GitHub Foundations
GH-900

GitHub Certified: GitHub Foundations

GitHub Certified
GitHub Certified: GitHub Actions
GH-300

GitHub Certified: GitHub Actions

GitHub Certified
GitHub Certified: GitHub Advanced Security
GH-500

GitHub Certified: GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Certified