Ayana C Eldhose
Ernakulam
Summary
Dynamic cybersecurity professional with extensive experience at Federal Bank Ltd., excelling in SOC Operations, SIEM administration and cyber threat intelligence. Adept at enhancing security monitoring capabilities and fostering team collaboration to achieve organizational goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - SOC
Federal Bank Ltd.
Aluva
09.2021 - Current
- Acted as the primary point of contact for the UEBA solution installation, alongside use case deployment.
- Managed one SIEM solution, including implementation, vendor interactions, hardware troubleshooting, and log source integrations.
- Led identification of automation opportunities, designing effective playbooks within SOAR framework.
- Created and updated comprehensive documentation on SIEM and UEBA functionalities.
- Handled cyber security incidents through prompt management and resolution actions.
- Executed periodic reviews of the SOC runbook, CSIRP, SIEM, UEBA, SIEM use case inventory, device onboarding, offboarding procedures, and relevant reports deployed in SIEM.
- Administered third-party subscriptions for threat intelligence services in the bank.
- Major contributor in the implementation of a new SIEM solution in the bank, and the re-integration of security devices and critical assets of the bank.
- Led the implementation of breach and attack simulation in the bank and contributed to conducting POCs, and assessing multiple vendors during the procurement or renewal of threat intel services.
- Day-to-day interactions with multiple vendors, CSMs of security services availed by the bank, and leading committee meetings with various stakeholders of the bank for various purposes.
SIEM Administartion | Platform Support Engineer
Wipro Ltd.
Bangalore
06.2018 - 08.2021
- 24*7 monitor, administer and operate SIEM environment - maintenance of SIEM components.
- Monitoring RSA UCF to ensure no cutoff between SIEM and Archer.
- Address tickets opened by customer on platform related issues.
- Identifying silent event sources and troubleshooting them on all levels by working with respective teams to bring any risk rated security devices to active mode.
- Sound understanding of using Putty and Linux commands for Admin level tasks/troubleshooting on SIEM servers.
- Experience working on regular upgrades and patch SIEM platform to latest versions.
- Experience working on BAU Activities, server decommissioning process, Firewall tests, SIEM configuration changes and migration works, parser deployments.
- Experience onboarding to SIEM new log sources to expand network coverage of SIEM for monitoring and compliance purpose and working with various teams/stakeholders for same.
- Integrating new log sources to centralized SIEM portal for continuous monitoring.
- Experience in preparation of weekly, monthly status reports and other platform team related reports.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Govt. Model Engineering College
Kochi, KeralaHSE - Computer Science
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Thrissur, KeralaSkills
- Cyber threat intelligence
- SIEM administration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Vendor management
- Team collaboration
- Use case development
- Log analysis
- Security monitoring
- SIEM tool proficiency: Innspark, RSA NetWitness, Splunk
- Ticketing tool - Redmine, service now
- Log source integration to Splunk
Communication
- Connects with multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Integral part of my team in preparing and delivering some of the major tasks and reports.
Trainings and Certifications
- ISACA CSX-P Certified
- Comptia Security+ Certified
- Trained in RSA Netwitness (SIEM)
Accomplishments
- Recognized Twice in the Best in Us Appreciation by the Customer
Timeline
Manager - SOC
Federal Bank Ltd.
09.2021 - Current
SIEM Administartion | Platform Support Engineer
Wipro Ltd.
06.2018 - 08.2021
B.Tech - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Govt. Model Engineering College
HSE - Computer Science
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
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