Harsh Mistry
Associate Security Engineer
Thane
Summary
Security Engineer with 4 years of experience in the Cybersecurity Domain, actively serving as an Associate Security Engineer. Skilled in scripting, incident/event analysis, investigations, vulnerability assessment, malware analysis, threat intelligence and threat hunting.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Associate Security Engineer
SAINT-GOBAIN
10.2022 - Current
- Administered day-to-day SOC tools, which includes handling service request, overseeing system functionality.
- Involved in maintenance and troubleshooting of Qradar.
- Managing SOC tools like Qradar and Vectra, rule creation and rule finetuning on Qradar.
- Identify, ingest, and hunt indicators of compromise (IOCs), e.g malicious IPs/URLs, e.t.c, into security tools/applications.
- Investigate malicious phishing emails, domains and IPs using Open-Source tools and recommend proper blocking based on analysis.
- Research and track new exploits and cyber threats.
- Conduct through investigation on vulnerabilities discovered within organization and report it to responsible stakeholder.
- Investigating and providing actions on fraud incident & Industry partners on cyber security related matters.
- Analysing all reported suspicious files and determine whether the application is malicious, non-malicious or legitimate and create a report on it.
Cyber Security Intern
SAINT-GOBAIN
01.2022 - 10.2022
- Gained hands-on experience in implementing and managing various SOC tools. Also learned concepts like SIEM, SOAR, INM, EDR, XDR, etc.
- Played a key role in integrating Vectra log sources into our SIEM, using Python and the Vectra API. By crafting a specific rule for the SIEM to promptly detect failures in Vectra sensors, we enhance our overall security monitoring capabilities.
- Leveraged Python scripting to automate security processes.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
04.2001 -
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
University of Mumbai
04.2001 -
HSC -
Maharashtra State Board
SSC - undefined
Maharashtra State Board
Skills
Knowledgeable in Palo Alto Cortex XDR and XSOAR solutions
Skilled in developing scripts in Python and PowerShell to enhance efficiency
Solid proficiency in vulnerability assessment, keen threat identification, and proactive threat hunting
Proficient in Linux and Windows Server environments
Good analytical and Critical thinking, problem solving skills
Proficient in threat hunting using CrowdStrike Falcon
Experienced in leveraging Recorded Future for threat analysis
Proficient in using Joe Sandbox for malware analysis
Proficient in using MISP for threat intelligence sharing and IoC correlation
Certification
Certified Microsoft Technology Associate: Security Fundamentals (Certification number: H057-1853).
Interests
Solving cybersecurity challenges and puzzles / problems, Learning new tools and concepts in cybersecurity, Reading about latest cybersecurity events and news, Playing online games and listening to music
Timeline
Associate Security Engineer
SAINT-GOBAIN
10.2022 - Current
Cyber Security Intern
SAINT-GOBAIN
01.2022 - 10.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
04.2001 -
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
University of Mumbai
04.2001 -
SSC - undefined
Maharashtra State Board
HSC -
Maharashtra State Board