Anjaz Ahmed Khan
Bangalore
Summary
Endpoint Security & Vulnerability Management Specialist with extensive experience in hardening enterprise environments and minimizing attack surfaces in cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Proficient in utilizing tools such as Tanium, Rapid7 InsightVM, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Wiz Cloud to enhance endpoint protection and container security. Demonstrated ability to implement proactive threat mitigation strategies that significantly reduce vulnerabilities.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Engineer Information Security
Lowe's Company Inc.
Bangalore
06.2021 - Current
- Experience in the Endpoint Security stack: Tanium, Microsoft Defender ATP, CrowdStrike EDR, and the Vulnerability Management tool Rapid7 InsightVM.
- Led the deployment of endpoint security tooling to all compatible assets in the organization, providing security operations partners with greater visibility and incident response capacity, while expanding the management of Lowe's assets.
- Experience in increasing the security posture of the infrastructure by creating packages and sensors in Tanium for Windows and Mac operating systems, using PowerShell for multiple purposes, and running deployments of Defender and Tanium agents across the estate.
- Created a secure image management function at Lowe’s, aligning with cross-functional partners in Lowe’s Technology to provide teams with secure operating system images for containers and virtual machines, ensuring endpoint stack coverage, and improving the security posture of Lowe’s computing resources.
- Experience in performing threat intelligence signals ingestion into the estate, monitoring alerts generated by them, and fine-tuning.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams (IT Ops, App Dev, Cloud) to ensure timely remediation of critical vulnerabilities, achieving over 90% SLA compliance.
- Enhanced security posture by implementing continuous vulnerability assessment and reporting dashboards for leadership visibility.
- Consistently achieved near-zero critical vulnerabilities by enforcing strict patch compliance timelines.
Lead Engineer End User Computing
Lowe's Company Inc.
Bangalore
05.2020 - 06.2021
- Managed a global, cross-functional project team with members based in India and the U.S., overseeing the end-to-end delivery of IT services across multiple domains, including End User Services, network, and corporate technology developments.
- Overseeing IT projects by creating project charters, conducting sprint calls, liaising with stakeholders, and orchestrating with a geographically dispersed IT team. Provided strategic guidance on risk analysis and change management, ensuring smooth project execution.
- Managed escalation processes, ensuring critical issues were addressed swiftly and efficiently, in alignment with program objectives, and provided proposals for continuous progress.
- Cultivated and managed strong relationships with IT suppliers, optimizing the procurement process, forecasting IT CapEx/OpEx, and evaluating vendor services by drafting RFQ/RFP and AMC.
L1 & L2 System Engineer - End User Computing
Lowe's Company Inc.
Bangalore
03.2016 - 05.2020
- Served as L1 & L2 Desktop support engineer
L1 System Engineer
Hi-tech Informatics/ GMR Group
Bangalore
11.2014 - 03.2016
- Provided comprehensive support of desktop, critical applications, and Poly VC Setup to the CEO's office, academic institutions, resulted in increased productivity and competence.
Network Support Engineer
CCIPL /Taj Hotels Group
Bangalore
03.2012 - 08.2014
- Addressed End User's L1 IT issues through desk calls and walks ins while prioritizing FCR.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application - Systems & Networking
Rabindranath Tagore University
India01.2024
Diploma in Engineering - CSE
DTCE
India01.2011
Skills
- Endpoint security and protection
- Vulnerability and patch management
- Mobile and container security
- Insider threat detection
- Email security
- Project and change management
- Team mentoring and collaboration
- IT operations and data center management
- Cross-functional collaboration
Affiliations
- Tanium
- MS Defender
- Crowdstrike
- Rapid 7
- Wiz
- JIRA, BMC Remedy
Certification
- ITIL V4
- CCNA
- CompTIA Security +
- CEH V11
- CISM
Accomplishments
- Lowe's Champion Award 2023
- Lowe's Excellence Award 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
PERSONAL DETAILS
Marital status: married
DOB: July 9, 1990
Languages known: English, Hindi, and Kannada
Timeline
Lead Engineer Information Security
Lowe's Company Inc.
06.2021 - Current
Lead Engineer End User Computing
Lowe's Company Inc.
05.2020 - 06.2021
L1 & L2 System Engineer - End User Computing
Lowe's Company Inc.
03.2016 - 05.2020
L1 System Engineer
Hi-tech Informatics/ GMR Group
11.2014 - 03.2016
Network Support Engineer
CCIPL /Taj Hotels Group
03.2012 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Computer Application - Systems & Networking
Rabindranath Tagore University
Diploma in Engineering - CSE
DTCE