Avijit Sharma

Dynamic Cyber Security Engineer with proven expertise at GENERAL MILLS INDIA, specializing in network security design and risk management. Adept at firewall management and compliance with cybersecurity frameworks, I excel in enhancing security protocols and fostering team collaboration to achieve robust protection against threats.

• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer
• CCNA Routing & Switching (CISCO13638038)

• Working as a team lead to support a group of people in my team for different technical aspects and guiding as a subject matter expert for Palo Alto Networks.
• Managing approximately 200 Firewalls(on-premises) via Panorama and 10 firewalls on GCP.
• Work on issues related to Global Protect, IPSEC VPN, SSL VPN, Active Directory Servers Authentication Issue, High Availability, decryption and certificates issue.
• Complete Firewall deployment with configuration at different sites and managing sites compliance via AIOPS, skybox and Tableau dashboards.
• Managing Siem tools such Data dog, Google Chronicle, and Cribl for integration of different log sources to above mentioned tools.
• Managing endpoint protection with tools such as Symantec, hoxhunt, Cofense and Crowdstrike.

• Need to work on incidents and tasks related to different request from employees and vendors for allowing and denying of traffic as per best practices from palo alto and Cisco ASDM.
• Working on different projects related to Palo Alto Firewall (Restriction of outbound traffic, Appling SSL decryption, Identification of critical applications and accordingly allowing access to it, Deployment of Globalprotect and prisma access on end user)
• Approving security policies through GitHub and terraform for GCP integrated firewalls via API.
• Align vulnerability management activities to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyber Security Framework (CSF) 800-53 for risk assessment via Onetrust tool by maintaining the risk register and mitigate those.
• Handling POC with different vendors for integration of different technologies with Palo Alto as well as SIEM tools.
• Making decisions for the best tools for the organization to check for vulnerabilities and exploitations.
• Organising meetings with different teams to provide a knowledge sharing session on the different technologies that we use for Palo Alto Firewall (app -id, url-filtering, content filtering).
• Migration and upgrade of Firewalls.
• Taking packet captures across the nodes and providing analyzed solution by debugging the issue.
• Deployment and managing Falcon CrowdStrike to all the endpoints.
• Maintaining Compliance through Skybox security and Tableau dashboards to all the network devices (routers, Firewalls, OT devices(PLC's), switches).

• Collecting unknown facts
• Troubleshooting issues

• Passport Number: P5916701
• Father's Name: Mr. Dharmender Shrama
• Notice Period: 90 Days
• Date of Birth: 09/08/93
• Nationality: Indian
• PAN : BJMPA1654A
• Contact: +917204148047

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