ARULANANDAKUMAR NACHIMUTHU
Chennai
Summary
Dedicated Associate with extensive experience collaborating with clients, promptly identifying needs and recommending products and services to accomplish clients' goals. Strong communicator focused on delivering outstanding customer care. Watchful professional offering comprehensive, hands-on experience identifying, investigating and responding to information security alerts. Expertise in searching through data-sets to detect threats and anomalies and administering metrics to maintain security processes and controls. Focused on helping businesses safeguard sensitive data from hackers and cyber-criminals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SOC Lead
HCL LTD
12.2020 - Current
- Developed and maintained incident response protocols to mitigate damage and liability during security breaches.
- Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
- Investigated and resolved incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive information.
- Analyzed network traffic and system logs to detect malicious activities.
- Implemented security measures to reduce threats and damage related to cyber attacks.
- Performed network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common problems.
- Developed security metrics and technical analysis to give insight into performance and trends.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
- Provided regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solutions and issue resolution
- Created Dashboards, reports, scheduled searches, and alerts.
- Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.
- Knowledge's about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.
- Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements
- Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response
Associate Consultant
Wipro LTD
11.2017 - 11.2020
- Extensive knowledge of Splunk architecture and various components
- Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence
- Having experience in understanding of Splunk 6.x and 7.x product, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders
- Experience on log parsing, complex Splunk searches, including external table lookups, Splunk data flow, components, features and product capability
- In depth and extensive Knowledge in setting up alerts and Monitoring recipes from the Machine generated data
- Experience on Splunk query language, Implement the use cases and data model
- Using Crowd strike Falcon Insight: (Endpoint Detection and Response EDR), continuous, comprehensive endpoint visibility that spans detection, response and forensics to ensure nothing is missed and potential breaches are stopped
- Falcon Insight accelerates security operations, allowing users to minimize efforts spent handling alerts and quickly investigate and respond to attacks
- Do the instant analysis of threats that reach the endpoints which is used for integrate threat intelligence into endpoint protection, automating incident investigations and speeding breach response
- Using the falcon, threat hunting relentlessly to see and stop the most sophisticated hidden threats Exploit blocking stops the execution and spread of threats via unpatched vulnerabilities
- Understand the network traffic/log patterns and be aware of the latest vulnerabilities and threats
Senior Information Security Analyst
Nihon Technology PVT Limited
12.2015 - 11.2017
- Day to Day Security Operational support for IT Security and incident handling for Client
- Identify the potential threat based on risk, vulnerability and critical IT asset
- Experience with ArcSight Smart Connector Foundations & Tool Kit , ArcSight ESM 6.5 Administrator and Analyst, ArcSight Flex Connector Configuration & ArcSight Creating Advanced ESM Content for Security Use Cases
- Participate in all the phases of security incident response process, including detection, containment, eradication, and postincident reporting
- Respond ad-hoc vulnerability and threat related query to customer.Attend the weekly meeting with client and resolve the current issue if anything there
Senior Information Security Engineer
FIS GLOBAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT LIMITED
01.2011 - 12.2015
- Monitor and detect any potential security threats and risks to the organization
- Conduct thorough investigative actions based on security events and remediate as dictated by standard operating procedures
- Participate in all the phases of security incident response process, including detection, containment, eradication, and postincident reporting
- Participate in Malware analysis and reporting during the incident response activities
- Record detailed Security Incident Response activities in the Case Management System
- As per company security policy prepare operational procedure document and maintain the same
- Find out false positive Alerts and improve the process
- As per management and client requirement prepare weekly and monthly report
- Understanding of network traffic and be able to analyze network traffic introduced by the malware
- Performing vulnerability assessment for the internal networks, servers and network devices
- Providing a detailed vulnerability assessment report with recommendation to the IT team and follow-up for the closure andperforming the rescan to confirm the fix of the vulnerabilities
- Quarterly analysis of the identified vulnerabilities with the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Education
Master of Science - Cyber Forensics & Information Security
University Of Madras
Chennai04.2010
Bachelor of Science - Physics
PSG College Of Arts & Science
Coimbatore04.2005
Higher Secondary: XII -
Sri Kannika P HSS - State Board
Udumalpet 03.2002
Higer Secondary - X -
Sri Venkatakrishna HSS
Kaniyur04.2000
Skills
- Incident Handling & Analysis
- Log Analysis
- Security Information and event management(SIEM)
- Malware Analysis
- Incident Response & Management
- Firewall Log Analysis
- Endpoint Detection & Response(EDR)
Certification
Certified Ethical Hacker [CEH-V8].
Certified CompTIA Security+ [SY0-401].
Certified Splunk User Splunk Core
Certified Power User Splunk Enterprise
Certified Splunk Admin
Timeline
SOC Lead
HCL LTD
12.2020 - Current
Associate Consultant
Wipro LTD
11.2017 - 11.2020
Senior Information Security Analyst
Nihon Technology PVT Limited
12.2015 - 11.2017
Senior Information Security Engineer
FIS GLOBAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT LIMITED
01.2011 - 12.2015
Master of Science - Cyber Forensics & Information Security
University Of Madras
Bachelor of Science - Physics
PSG College Of Arts & Science
Higher Secondary: XII -
Sri Kannika P HSS - State Board
Higer Secondary - X -
Sri Venkatakrishna HSS
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