Alwin Korah
Senior Security Engineer
Bangalore
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Information Security Engineer
Shopsense Retail Technologies / FYND
Bangalore
2021.08 - Current
- Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance and implementation of information security standards, procedures and guidelines.
- Planned and oversaw configuration changes for security infrastructure platforms.
- Developed, implemented and documented security programs and policies and monitored compliance across departments.
- Validated and verified system security requirements definitions and analyzed system security designs.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
- Monitored confidential company data and mitigated hacking through network systems updates.
- Investigated and resolved incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive information.
- Implemented security measures to reduce threats and damage related to cyber attacks.
- Analyzed network traffic and system logs to detect malicious activities.
- Educated and trained users on information security policies and procedures.
- Administered and monitored firewalls, intrusion detection systems and anti-virus software to detect risks.
- Worked with other teams to enforce security of applications and systems.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Developed, tested and implemented security policies, plans and procedures for organizational protection.
- Implementation of HIDS and NIDS and guide the SOC team for the investigations
- Ownership of VPN implementation and management
- Ownership of DevSecOps and complete cloud security
- Designed company-wide policies to bring operations in line with Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards.
- Anti-Malware implementation and management
- Implementation of security within the CI-CD pipeline
- Cloud Threat Modeling
- Complete ownership of AWS and GCP security
- Securing the Kubernetes env and implementing runtime security for the EKS envs.
- Configuring and maintaining security services like cloudflare, akamai.
- Utilizing osint open source tools to build the services needed for identifying threats and breached information.
- Worked on the getting the platforms to attain SOC2 and ISO 27001 certification.
Information Security Engineer
Promatas Technologies
Aleppey
2021.01 - 2021.08
- Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance and implementation of information security standards, procedures and guidelines.
- Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
- Encrypted data and erected firewalls to protect confidential information.
- Implemented security measures to reduce threats and damage related to cyber attacks.
- Delivered network system upgrade on time, under budget and with minimal service interruption.
- Analyzed network traffic and system logs to detect malicious activities.
- Developed plans to safeguard computer files against modification, destruction, or disclosure.
System Engineer
SRV Media
Pune
2020.10 - 2020.12
- Efficiently resolved myriad of technical issues concerning software installation and network connectivity.
- Tracked problematic system errors by implementing various user support tracking metrics.
- Worked effectively in both independent and team environments to exceed IT goals.
- Maintained computer systems, installed and upgraded new systems.
- Monitored, tracked and prioritized new work requests at Help Desk within set response times.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
- Collaborated with third-party payment card industry (PCI) compliance partners.
- Authored security incident reports, highlighting breaches, vulnerabilities and remedial measures.
- Manages client server, web servers, mail servers and DNS servers
System Support Engineer
SC Soft Technologies
TechnoPark, Trivandrum
2018.09 - 2020.10
- Efficiently resolved myriad of technical issues concerning software installation and network connectivity.
- Tracked problematic system errors by implementing various user support tracking metrics.
- Worked effectively in both independent and team environments to exceed IT goals.
- Maintained computer systems, installed and upgraded new systems.
- Monitored, tracked and prioritized new work requests at Help Desk within set response times.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
- Collaborated with third-party payment card industry (PCI) compliance partners.
- Authored security incident reports, highlighting breaches, vulnerabilities and remedial measures.
- Manages client server, web servers, mail servers and DNS servers
- Manage Cloud infrastructure for clients
Education
BBA - BBA
SERT IT Campus
Chengannur 2017.01 - 2020.03
Diploma - Diploma in Hardware And Networking
CMS IT Institute
CochinSkills
Cloud Security implementation
undefinedAccomplishments
- Fynd Annual Awards :- Innovator Of the Year 2022
- Fynd Star Performer in the first Quarter 2022 :- T1 2022
- Fynd Star Performer in the first Quarter 2023:- T1 2023
- Fynd Star Performer in the second Quarter 2023:- T2 2023
- Fynd Star Performer in the first Quarter 2024 :- T1 2024
Certification
RedHat Certified Engineer
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Summary
Adept at enhancing security infrastructures and achieving compliance, I spearheaded initiatives at Shopsense Retail Technologies / FYND that fortified data security and streamlined incident response management. My expertise in cloud security and my collaborative approach have significantly mitigated risks, aligning operations with security standards and elevating team performance.
Timeline
Senior Information Security Engineer
Shopsense Retail Technologies / FYND
2021.08 - Current
Information Security Engineer
Promatas Technologies
2021.01 - 2021.08
System Engineer
SRV Media
2020.10 - 2020.12
System Support Engineer
SC Soft Technologies
2018.09 - 2020.10
BBA - BBA
SERT IT Campus
2017.01 - 2020.03
Diploma - Diploma in Hardware And Networking
CMS IT Institute
RedHat Certified Engineer
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