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Dhilip Murugaiyan
Senior Security analyst
Chennai,TN
Summary
Senior Security Analyst with 9+ years of experience in Incident Response, MxDR, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), Threat Hunting, Digital Forensics,SIEM, SOC Operations, Security Monitoring, Endpoint Security & Technical Support.
- Certified Cyberdefender (CCD) well versed and experienced in handling high severity Cyber Security Incidents and driving them towards closure by following Incident Response process
- Experienced in dealing with security breaches, accessing, and mitigating security risks / threats and proficient in degrading the capabilities of adversaries by removing their presence from the environment using EDR solutions.
- Deep understanding on how to onboard various security device for log collection, extract security value from those logs using SIEM correlation and identify actionable critical security incidents.
- Subject Matter Expert – Symantec Endpoint Protection (Endpoint Security)
- Team player, highly self-motivated and able to work in full autonomy, prioritize and execute tasks.
- Knowledge of Industry standards such as PCI-DSS and privacy standards such as GDPR.
Overview
10
years of professional experience
3
Certifications
3
Languages
Work History
Accenture Solutions Private Limited, India
Senior Security Analyst
04.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Analyze log data, network traffic and alerts generated by a variety of security technologies in real-time, and send enriched, contextualized, and actionable security incidents to customers with detailed information including but not limited to Initial vector, TTPs, Attack progression and scope the attack across the organization.
- Investigate attacks against customer network .Supported these investigations utilizing OSINT sources like VirusTotal, Alientvault etc., query additional client log data stored in SQL DB, AWS, Elastic, and EDR platforms.
- As part of MxDR, I manage and investigate alerts on multiple EDR platforms such as Crowdstrike Falcon, Elastic ,Endgame, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Carbon Black & Symantec EDR.
- Perform hunt based on IOAs, TTPs and Threat Intelligence. Investigate ad hoc retro-hunt requests from customers by leveraging internal/publicly available Threat Intelligence reports.
- Focus on Emerging / Significant threats such as Human Operated Ransomware, Credential Theft, Lateral Movement, Cobalt Strike activity, Targeted attacks on AD / DNS and Other Standard Applications.
- Create Detection rules within the Elastic stack (ELK), Google Chronicle SOAR to identify the latest threats and generate alerts wherever possible. Created Traps (detection rules) to identify advanced attacks , build and maintain the life cycle of detection rules.
- Investigate security alerts generated by Elastic security, Google Chronicle SOAR,Assessment of a High Alert and identify tuning opportunities to reduce False Positive.
- Write up security incident reports detailing the threat, its characteristics, and possible remediation activities.
- Perform RCA for Critical severity incidents and document the lessons learned .Identify the root cause for higher MTTA/MTTR (Time to Alert / Time to Resolution) of Incident.
- Routinely review security incidents and other customer deliverables for adherence to the established procedures and guidelines. Document, rectify, and provide feedback to other analysts as necessary.
- I identified opportunities for automating incidents and assisted the team in automation efforts.
- Research new threats and ensure appropriate detection capabilities are in place to identify and respond to these threats.
- I was part of Service Quality Assurance, and my responsibility was to audit the Incidents to identify and improve the quality of Incident handling and Alert Write up.
- Provided mentoring, training, and extensive guidance & support for other security analysts within the MDR team.
Sophos
Sophos Endpoint Specialist
01.2017 - 04.2019
Job overview
- Provide technical assistance for the development and maintenance of malware-related issues. Suggest appropriate techniques in relation to signatures, tactics, and procedures against threats.
- Contacting Sophos labs and Raising Internal Requests to submit samples of malicious and requesting mitigation and release signatures.
- Monitoring and maintaining the Sophos Endpoints and Antivirus within organizations. Identified and evaluated potential threats and vulnerabilities.
- Provided support to customers and partners on various Sophos endpoint products. Assisted customers and partners with hands-on technical assistance for demonstrations, trials, and proof of concept projects. Provided the remote session support to customer who has an issue with the deployment of SEC, Sophos cloud, SAV on various machines (Windows, MAC, VM), Sophos Web Appliance, Email Appliance.
- Created training documentation regarding various platforms/applications such as Windows Administration, Unix Administration, and MAC.
- Trained on the Sophos Safeguard, worked on the lab environments. Providing a quick response to a virus outbreak situation.
- Diagnose and solve incidents that have been escalated by members of Sophos support.
- First hand experience with Sophos Central endpoint detection & response (EDR).
- Hands-on experience with deployment tools such as PDQ, SCCM, INTUNE and Jamf.
- Provide customer feedback to the product management and software development teams.
Concentrix Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
SME – Symantec Endpoint Protection
03.2014 - 01.2017
Job overview
- Mentor, train, and help develop the skills of new Technical Support Engineers (TSE)
- Threat Solutions Expert for Symantec's Dedicated Threat Handling Team to troubleshoot critical threat related issues in large scale enterprise networks.
- Collaborating with Symantec’s malware engineering and patch release team (Global Security Response Liaisons) via weekly WebEx sessions to discuss ongoing trends regarding vulnerability exploits and latest Cyber-Security updates.
- Hands-on experience as an Analyst in handling threat out-break situations like Ransomware variants (WannaCry, Petya) and remediating customer’s environment.
- Act as a trusted advisory by providing technical support to Global Enterprise level customers.
- Applies specialized knowledge, analytical practices, and procedures to analyze, diagnose and resolve issues in unique and often complex enterprise environments.
- Participates and possibly leads bridge calls with customers and 3rd party Teams/Vendors
- Analyzed when it is necessary to engage or escalate to engineering / development resources to resolve complex issues.
- Manages the own schedule of cases, which includes determining priority levels and negotiating and setting expectations with customers.
- Participate in new product releases and beta cycles to ensure information and training requirements are met to support new products.
- Collaborated with Sales, Services, Engineering, Product Management, and Support Management when necessary to prioritize customer requests.
- Define and track bugs for Development and offer innovative ideas to improve product quality.
- Engage in on-going training and departmental development, along with self-learnings.
Education
Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
04.2001
Skills
Operating Systems : Windows, Unix, MacOS
undefinedCertification
Certified Cyberdefender (CCD)
Interests
Trekking
Reading Cybersecurity related Content
Timeline
Certified Cyberdefender (CCD)
04-2024
Comptia security+
01-2022
EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv10)
10-2019
Senior Security Analyst
Accenture Solutions Private Limited, India
04.2019 - Current
Sophos Endpoint Specialist
Sophos
01.2017 - 04.2019
SME – Symantec Endpoint Protection
Concentrix Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India
03.2014 - 01.2017
Dhaanish Ahmed College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
04.2001
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