Vrandan Sharma
Cybersecurity consultant for Providence Health's Southern California division, where hospitals can't go down and attacks never stop, now bringing that same zero-downtime, proactive security to every AdVran client.
From Hospital Floors to Every Network We Protect
A hospital can't close because of a cyberattack. Patients are still in surgery and still in the ER, and the systems keeping them safe have to stay up. Nobody can take the network offline for a week to clean it up. Downtime isn't a cost in that world. It's a patient safety problem.
Vrandan works in that world every day. As a cybersecurity consultant for Providence Health, Vrandan manages security for its Southern California division, where the team trains constantly, watches constantly, and closes gaps before an attacker finds them.
Before Providence, Vrandan led CMMC compliance for defense and aerospace suppliers, where every control is checked against a standard and nothing is taken on faith. Together, the two jobs led to one belief: security has to be proactive. By the time you're reacting, you're already down.
Security Run Before the Incident
Most businesses get reactive security: their provider waits for an alert, takes systems offline to fix it, and the business absorbs the downtime and the recovery bill. The attackers who go after hospitals go after clinics, manufacturers and growing businesses too.
As Head of Security Engineering & Operations, Vrandan runs how AdVran protects client environments every day: 24/7 SOC monitoring, penetration testing twice a year by default, and continuous vulnerability and patch management.
Built for the Auditor, Tested Like an Attacker
With CISA and CISM, Vrandan is certified to audit against HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST. With OSCP+ and CEH Master, Vrandan tests systems the way an attacker would. Every environment is built the way an auditor will check it and tested the way an attacker would hit it.
Adrian brought the engineering discipline of defense work to AdVran. Vrandan adds the security discipline of hospitals that can't go down, the same standard that keeps Southern California's hospitals running, applied to the businesses that depend on AdVran.
Certifications: ISACA CISA · ISACA CISM · OffSec OSCP+ · EC-Council CEH Master · Cisco CCNA · PMP · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Microsoft Certified: Fundamentals
The path to Head of Security Engineering & Operations.
The roles and training Vrandan brings to every AdVran engagement.
- Defense & Aerospace
Cybersecurity Engineer, CMMC Compliance
Led CMMC compliance for defense and aerospace suppliers, where every control is checked against a standard and nothing is assumed.
- Providence Health
Cybersecurity Consultant, Southern California Division
Manages cybersecurity across Providence's Southern California hospitals, where downtime is not possible and attacks are constant.
- AdVran
Head of Security Engineering & Operations
Brings the hospital standard to every client. No accepted downtime, and security managed before an incident, not after.
One team, every engagement.
- 4+ yrs
- Founder's engineering at Boeing, incl. NASA projects
- 3.5k+
- Endpoints managed
- 24/7
- SOC monitoring
- 5.0
- Clutch rating, 4 verified reviews
Healthcare, financial services, legal, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, education and non-profit clients. Every one of them has a named engineer.
