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Ganesh Muthu
Senior Security Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Information Security Engineer with 11+ years of experience in Security Operations Center(SOC). Expertise in SIEM Tools, Vulnerability Assessment & Incident Response to configure, implement and support various infrastructure across multiple platforms. History of managing security teams with proven experience directing all phases of complex projects while managing, motivating, and mentoring team members. Proven to maintain efficiency in high-stress situations.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certificates
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Security Engineer
Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - Current
- Responsible for administering, maintaining, and configuring a Qradar tool for client environment
- Monitoring of security incidents and real time checking of events for the alerts based on correlation rules configured
- Writing use cases in Correlation Engine with pre-defined and custom-building blocks
- Work closely with Other teams to create new Critical dashboards for monitoring teams
- Upgrading and installing the apps on the QRadar environment
- Performing Health Checks regularly to ensure smooth functioning of the Qradar device
- Assigning user roles, adding new users and deleting the old users from the QRadar
- Good Knowledge on the Splunk tool in monitoring, report creation, writing queries for the reports, analyzing the events based on search
- Worked in administrators to perform monitoring and creating dashboards for main alerts
- Performing the health check based on the report creation
Technical Services Specialist
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Monitoring of security events received through alerts from Security Incident and Event Monitoring or other Channels
- Review and analyze alerts triggered from the SIEM Tool (QRadar) performing Level 2 analysis of security issues
- Initial assessment of the event to determine whether it is a Valid Incident or not (Classification)
- Performed in determining of Severity for a Valid Ticket with risk and damage (Triage) Creation of Ticket in Incident Response Tool (Resilient)
- Providing remediation steps for security incident tickets and escalating the ticket to next level for further analysis on the tickets
- Perform tasks on Qradar platform including add, changes or troubleshooting of Log Sources from different vendors
- Handles Operational Handshake calls with Client on Weekly basis, to discuss the upcoming work and challenges faced during the week to ensure smooth operations in Security
- Hands on experience in Palo Alto, Firewall, Sentinel One Anti-Virus, Proof Point, Dell Secure Works, ICD Tool
Associate Consultant
Aujas Networks Pvt Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016
- The project involves the management of IBM Siteprotector Intrusion Prevention & Detection System device for block the attack in the Network
- Analysis of the Network Attack, blocks, detects and regular Health Checkups in the real Environment
- Refining IPS Policy and Creating Rules according to the Security Standard
- Signature Updates Deployment on the Management Components and all the Individual IPS/IDS devices
- Upgrade for SiteProtector Intrusion Prevention System - IDS/IPS (IBM ISS IPS)
- Collaborates with IT areas to identify network relationships and functional requirements
- Preparing the Knowledge Transfer document of Process and Technical specifications guide for the Transition/Internal purpose
- Ensure Smooth Transition for all the Security Applications, Preparing Team Metrics report and Project status report weekly/monthly presenting to the Customer
- Client facing role and Understand the Customer requirement
Process Executive
Infosys Bpo Limited
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Worked with Information Security Group to ensure compliance of solutions with corporate security policies
- Hands on Experience with RSA envision centralized IPDB
- Performed Log analysis from SIEM tool and documented the Incident
- With the Knowledge on Information Security analyzed various information security threats and ensured that they were not repeated by taking necessary preventative actions
- React to alerts and take necessary actions to stop/divert the attack and protect corporate assets
- On knowledge on SIEM tool able to perform Log analysis, co-relating the logs which are collected from the various devices which are connected in our network
- Monitored information security system using Dashboards, ensured that there were no Internet frauds and hackers on site
- Respond to tickets and alerts from ticketing tool in a timely manner.
Assistant Engineer
The New Indian Express Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary
- Maintain an inventory of parts for emergency repairs
- Helps in the Productivity and releasing Newspapers using the Adobe In design software
- Maintain logs related to network functions, as well as maintenance and repair records
- Perform routine network start-up and shutdown procedures and maintain control records.
Education
Bachelor of engineering - electrical & electronics
Anna University
08.2006 - 08.2010
Mathematics with Computer Science
Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School
05.2004 - 05.2006
Skills
Security Information and Event Management (Qradar, RSA Envision, Dell Secure works)undefined
Certification
Certified with CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) V8 from EC- Council with 92.8% (Certification Number: ECC84157527835)
Interests
Blogging
Playing chess
Timeline
Senior Security Engineer
Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - Current
Technical Services Specialist
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2019
Associate Consultant
Aujas Networks Pvt Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016
Process Executive
Infosys Bpo Limited
01.2012 - 01.2014
Assistant Engineer
The New Indian Express Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of engineering - electrical & electronics
Anna University
08.2006 - 08.2010
Mathematics with Computer Science
Sai Matriculation Higher Secondary School
05.2004 - 05.2006
Certified with CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) V8 from EC- Council with 92.8% (Certification Number: ECC84157527835)
IBM QRadar SIEM Foundations provided by IBM India Pvt Ltd
Windows Microsoft Azure Fundamentals & Associate
Nessus Certificate of Proficiency
Diploma in LAN & WAN technologies LAN & WAN Technologies.
CyberArk Certified Trustee
Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate
Hobbies
My hobbies are listening to music. Along with this, I also like cooking. Researching to launch a startup company for the small and medium business people to provide security services at affordable price.
Hobbies
My hobbies are listening to music. Along with this, I also like cooking. Researching to launch a startup company for the small and medium business people to provide security services at affordable price.
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