Dineshkumar Kandasamy
Information Security Specialist
Namakkal
Summary
Shrewd Security Specialist possessing 9 years acumen directly handling risk-related aspects of technology and data management. Maintains exceptional systematic compliance with policy and guidelines to assess vulnerability and protect crucial information. Thorough consultation throughout technology roadmap, design and launch. Factors latest protocols governing vulnerability assessment to determine internal security policy.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Information Security Specialist
BNY MELLON International Operations India Private Limited
Chennai
2022.07 - Current
- Assist product teams in moving applications through application design & delivery checkpoints particular about controlling risk exposure to corporation of any designed solutions, ensuring information risk and technology-based policies are adhered to and advising generally on infrastructure design including ensuring adequate availability and resilience
- Improved 13 legacy application with risk assessment and remediation by understanding impact of changes and risks within components and how it impacts wider environment.
- Investigate, document and track where organization exposes business to significant risk including end of life software, hardware, and infrastructure components
- Worked on 9 UDT's (User defined technologies) with technical investigations, risk remediation and stabilization.
- Perform deep technical reviews of existing platforms with view to identifying major risk and resiliency issues and looking for ways to optimize costs through infrastructure consolidation and simplification
- Participate in Architectural process and architecture forum, reviewing proposals and making recommendations, ensuring consistency with other Developments, and adhering to organization's Architectural standards
- Consulted with team members to assess flawed root causes and plan for remediation.
- Minimize issues arising from Ethical Hacks, static and dynamic scans, vulnerabilities and Policy Exceptions by working with product teams to overcome technical barriers, and thereby preventing Policy Exceptions
- Keep abreast of current and emerging trends in architectural practices particularly in (though not limited to) risk, resiliency and platform technology spaces.
- Contributed system road mapping, design and launch services to address information vulnerability.
- Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.
- Worked with other teams to enforce security of applications and systems.
- Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures.
Senior Lead
Tata Communications Ltd
Chennai
2019.01 - 2022.06
- Research various sources for getting open-source threat intelligence feeds
- Integrate various sources to threat intelligence platform (through API/crawl/feeds)
- Developed more than 20 SOAR playbooks for automated threat hunting in SIEM devices.
- Developed APIs to provide cyber threat intelligence feeds for security devices (LogRhythm etc.,)
- Develop BAST (Breach and Attack Simulation) solution on top of open-source tool Caldera from MITRE.
- Working as part of red team in designing approach, developing / modifying tools to use in red team exercise as well as in BAST
- Performing SAST for applications using vendor tool and help in remediating issues
- Participating and preparing report as part of pen test and red team exercises to present to customer with remediation recommendation
- Setup and integrate sandbox for malware analysis with cyber threat intelligence platform
- Worked on integrating exposure monitoring product from OEM with existing platform.
- Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response
- Worked with team to identify areas of improvement and devised solutions based on findings
Member of Technical Staff – II
Netskope
Bangalore
2014.11 - 2019.01
- Research and analysed how SaaS applications work (in aspects of security)
- Perform Deep Packet Analysis of internals of SaaS applications
- Develop content to identify various aspects of SaaS applications security
- Develop scripts to gather information about security aspects from webpages of SaaS applications using python and natural language processing
- Designing and implementing end-to-end systems that interact with other systems that are also part of larger distributed system
- Develop scripts in python for new features development as well as features enhancement (Also, involves Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins)
- Increased product stability by 30% by debugging and fixing bugs
- Write unit tests for product and covered 100% of code.
- Restructure overall logic and increased product execution time by 50%.
- Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
Education
Master of Science - computer networking
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, United Kingdom 2012.05 - 2013.05
Bachelor of Engineering - computer science and engineering
Gnanamani College of Technology
Namakkal, India 2007.08 - 2011.05
Skills
Risk management
undefinedTimeline
Information Security Specialist
BNY MELLON International Operations India Private Limited
2022.07 - Current
Senior Lead
Tata Communications Ltd
2019.01 - 2022.06
Member of Technical Staff – II
Netskope
2014.11 - 2019.01
Master of Science - computer networking
University of Bedfordshire
2012.05 - 2013.05
Bachelor of Engineering - computer science and engineering
Gnanamani College of Technology
2007.08 - 2011.05
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