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Aathithya VM

Chennai

Summary

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Consultant – Cyber Security

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Chennai
11.2021 - Current
  • As an Assistant Consultant - Cyber Security at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, I am part of the Implementation team managing the implementation of EDR/XDR solutions to various customers

Crowdstrike Implementation:

  • Involved in various customer engagements within TCS to implement crowdstrike EDR.
  • Create an High-level design of the implementation and share it with customer.
  • Provide walkthrough of the implementation plan and design to get sign-off and proceed with implementation.
  • Work closely with infrastructure team to install the EDR sensors in the scope systems.
  • Create policies based on industry best practices and vendor recommended best practices.
  • Monitor and analyze alerts/detections in EDR and provide exclusions as and when needed.
  • Report compliance of the devices to customer and account management team in a timely manner.
  • Provide recommendations to customer about new features available within the product.
  • Identified areas of improvement within the organization's processes and procedures.
  • Maintained accurate records of all project activities in a timely manner.
  • Participated in brainstorming sessions with senior consultants on potential business opportunities.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to contribute recommendations and deliver client objectives.

Palo Alto Cortex XDR Implementation:

  • Implemented Palo Alto XDR to multiple customers supported by TCS.
  • Integrate all log sources available in the customer environment with Palo alto cortex XDR.
  • Create correlation rules for unsupported log sources.
  • Create custom queries in XDR as and when needed.
  • Work in sync with infrastructure team to install and configure log sources for XDR.

Sophos EDR Implementation: (On-Site):

  • Traveled on-site to implement Sophos EDR for a retail customer.
  • Understand their EDR needs and suggested features and provided comparative view for the same.
  • Assisted the implementation from on-site by coordinating with various teams.
  • Prepared design documents based on the requirement and implemented the solution.
  • Configured relay and other components for proper functioning of Sophos.
  • Implementation involves multiple locations within middle-east.
  • Conduct weekly connects with the customer and document the requirements.
  • Create weekly executive summary on the progress of the implementation to customer.
  • Create customized exclusions and alerting rules.
  • Created IOC sweeping rules and reporting to support the shopping season.
  • Ensure the compliance of the systems by doing daily health check.
  • Proper upgrade channel is followed to upgrade EDR agents running in the environment.

Security Services Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2016 - 10.2021
  • Endpoint Security - Implementation, Migration, Upgradation and Administration of Trend Micro Deep Security and Symantec Endpoint Protection
  • Basic Knowledge on Vulnerability Management with Hands on knowledge on Qualys guard
  • ITIL- Managing the incidents, service requests and environment changes documentation through Service Now
  • Operating System- Windows server (2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019) Microsoft Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP and Linux
  • Aspiring IT Professional with over 7+years of experience in IT industry and 5 years’ experience in Information Security Domain in Enterprise Security Services and managing security software Symantec Endpoint Protection and Trend Micro Deep Security.

Associate System Engineer

Infinite Computer Solutions Contracted by IBM India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2015 - 05.2016
  • Excellent Knowledge on Incident, Change and Problem management process
  • Worked as L1 support for AIX, Linux and Windows for 11 Months
  • Performing application upgrade on AIX server as per script provided by Application team
  • Working with Change management team to get approval for changes raised
  • Working with Incident management team for P1 and P2 raised by customer on high priority and engaging concern teams
  • Working with Tivoli alerts and follow SOP for alerts
  • Monitor control M jobs and follow instruction provided in document.

System Engineer

Noesys Software contracted by IBM India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
12.2013 - 07.2015
  • Excellent Knowledge on Incident, Change and Problem management process
  • Worked as L1 support for AIX, Linux and Windows for 11 Months
  • Performing application upgrade on AIX server as per script provided by Application team
  • Working with Change management team to get approval for changes raised
  • Working with Incident management team for P1 and P2 raised by customer on high priority and engaging concern teams
  • Working with Tivoli alerts and follow SOP for alerts
  • Monitor control M jobs and follow instruction provided in document.

Education

HSC -

St. Marks Matriculation Higher Secondary School
09.2007

B.E -

Sri SaiRam Institute of Technology

Skills

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Report Generation
  • Timeline Creation
  • Compliance Understanding
  • Project Planning
  • Assessments
  • Technical Review
  • Best Practices Implementation
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Analytical Thinking

Tools Expertise

  • Crowdstrike
  • Palo Alto
  • IBM Reaqta
  • Trend Micro
  • Sophos
  • MS Defender
  • Symantec
  • McAfee
  • Qualys
  • Qradar (on-premise/Cloud)
  • Splunk
  • Recorded Future
  • Rapid7
  • Cymulate
  • Acalvio

Honors Awards

  • On-Spot Award, 2022, Rathnamala Rajaram, Recognized with on-spot award for evaluation of new solutions and proactive approach with the customer team to solve their endpoint security problems.
  • Star Performer Award, 2020, Saravanan Venkatesan, Recognized as Star Performer for 2 consecutive years (2019 till 2020) for the dedication and interest shown in providing continuous support to the customers.

Certification

  • CompTIA Security +, CompTIA, COMP001021573577, 2021
  • Azure AZ500 Security Certification, Microsoft Technologies, H613-8182, 2024
  • Palo Alto Certified Detection and Remediation Analyst (PCDRA), Palo Alto Technologies, 08F4Z8HCD141Q65L, 2024

Accomplishments

  • On-Spot Award, 2022, Rathnamala Rajaram, Recognized with on-spot award for evaluation of new solutions and proactive approach with the customer team to solve their endpoint security problems.
  • Star Performer Award, 2020, Saravanan Venkatesan, Recognized as Star Performer for 2 consecutive years (2019 till 2020) for the dedication and interest shown in providing continuous support to the customers.

Affiliations

  • Interested towards badminton and loves to play badminton on weekends with friends.
  • Won several awards on tournaments conducted within our badminton academy.
  • Interested towards oration and love to participate in oration competition.

Disclaimer

I hereby solemnly declare that the above furnished particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date: 11-Feb-2024

Place: chennai

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Assistant Consultant – Cyber Security

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Security Services Specialist

IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2016 - 10.2021

Associate System Engineer

Infinite Computer Solutions Contracted by IBM India Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 05.2016

System Engineer

Noesys Software contracted by IBM India Pvt Ltd
12.2013 - 07.2015

HSC -

St. Marks Matriculation Higher Secondary School

B.E -

Sri SaiRam Institute of Technology
Aathithya VM