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Jameer Ahamed

Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Information Security Specialist with passion for aligning security architecture plans and processes with security standards and business goals. Extensive experience developing and testing security framework for cloud-based software. Versed in robust network defense strategies.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Security Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2023 - Current
  • Proactively configured detection rules and KQL Hunting queries for Microsoft Defender and Sentinel, targeting countermeasure Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for enhanced security
  • As Technical lead, dedicatedly focused on having in-depth analysis of alert and providing accurate remediation steps to concerned team
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM tools like Azure Sentinel, QRadar and Splunk, leveraged on configuring real time alerts.
  • Hold position of Threat Intelligence Subject Matter Expert, providing expert guidance and driving informed decision-making
  • Designed and Implemented SOAR Playbooks to automate IP enrichment
  • Demonstrated expertise in phishing identification and analysis
  • Leveraged open-source and closed-source intelligence to conduct in-depth investigations into APT groups and malware, extracting actionable insights to proactively combat threats
  • Pioneered pivoting analysis on threat intelligence to identify potential impact and implement preemptive defenses

Senior Security Analyst

Netsurion Technologies
02.2019 - 05.2023
  • Monitoring and analyzing all Network (NIDS) and Host (HIDS) anomalies within an environment
  • Good understanding on cyber kill chain process and MITRE framework
  • Proper understanding in performing Vulnerability Assessment and Coordinating with respective teams based on scan result
  • Manually hunting for security threat incidents and co-relating events using various security tools
  • Perform activities necessary to quickly mitigate outages and service interruptions in customers environment by recommending and implementing workarounds
  • Collaborating and coordinating with other team members to tailor best security solution for customer issues
  • Involving in Incident management, Change management, Service request Handling
  • Good knowledge on Vulnerabilities, IOCs (IPs, domains, URLs), CVE's, CVSS Score

Education

BTech - Information Technology

Anna University (St.Joseph's College)
Chennai,India
05.2018

Skills

  • Security Operations
  • Cloud security
  • Threat Hunting
  • Incident Response Management
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • SIEM Tools- Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Qradar and EventTracker
  • Microsoft Detection Sources - Endpoint, Cloudapps, Identity protection ,Entra ID protection, Application protection, Defender for Cloud
  • Penetration Testing – Burpsuite, Nmap, Open-source Kali Linux tools, Nuclei

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate SC-200
  • Splunk for SOC Analysts(Udemy)
  • Practical Ethical Hacking by TCM Security.


Personal Information

Title: Lead Cybersecurity Engineer.


Experience: 6 years.


Location: Bangalore,India.


Timeline

Lead Security Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solution
06.2023 - Current

Senior Security Analyst

Netsurion Technologies
02.2019 - 05.2023

BTech - Information Technology

Anna University (St.Joseph's College)
  • Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate SC-200
  • Splunk for SOC Analysts(Udemy)
  • Practical Ethical Hacking by TCM Security.


Jameer Ahamed