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SuryaPrasad TH

Bengaluru

Summary

With Around 8 years of Experience in the field of Cybersecurity , Seeking a career wherein I can utilize my skills and acquire new proficiencies. Looking for a role which ensures an upward growth of my technical, professional, and interpersonal skills which can be best applied to help in the firm’s growth. I am also a Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) , Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a Certified Industrial Control Systems Security Engineer.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Security Architect

Guidewire Software India Pvt Ltd
01.2024 - Current
  • Act as Subject Matter Expert, Serving as an Advisor for Cybersecurity Projects and Topics, Provide Guidance, Coaching and Expertise to help the Teams Design and Implement Cyber Secure Solutions.
  • Technology Evangelist for Organization wide System and Product Security initiatives alongside establishing Governance, Risk and Compliance Objectives for Business Sustainability.
  • Ensuring Product Development Teams abide with Risk- driven Cyber Security solutions by adopting Secure SDLC and Continuance.
  • Perform Feature reviews from the Security perspective and Build, Analyze and Review Threat Models.
  • Validate findings from Security Scanning tools and ideate data-driven enhancement strategies for Dynamic (DAST), static (SAST), Open-Source Application Security Testing (SCA) and Continuous process improvement.
  • Provision guidance as a Security consultant on New Technology Implementations, feature enhancements and New Product Initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Marketing and Product Departments for Specification and Definition of Secure Requirements alongside with Secure architectural patterns for the functional features.
  • Participate and Contribute to the Organization wide Global Product Cybersecurity Architecture Committee.

Senior Quality Engineer-Security

Crestron Electronics
08.2022 - 12.2023
  • Audit Crestron Products to identify Vulnerabilities,risks and application of standard practices for hardening.
  • Understand Features, participate in Security requirement reviews.
  • Write Security Test Plans for the Products based on their features.
  • Perform Manual Penetration Testing of Thick Client Applications, Web Application Interface of Devices and APIs based on defined Test Plans.
  • Present Security reports to Senior Management post completion of Security Audits.

Cybersecurity Expert - Penetration Testing

Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 05.2022
  • Have been a Member of the Schneider Digital Governance & Certification Team, I was responsible for the Application Security for various applications that are being used across the globe in the organization and make sure that the vulnerabilities present in them are remediated.
  • Acted as a Security Advisor for Driving Cybersecurity activities (Threat Modeling, Providing Security Requirements, SAST,DAST, SCA) and making sure that the Product is Cybersafe and Robust for Final Product Security Signoff Product Security Office by Secure SDLC Practice.
  • Performing Web Application, APIs, Thick Client Application Security Assessments of the Schneider Internal Applications and Digital Offers as a part of Certification Activity in the Governance Team.
  • Performing Security Scans for the Infrastructure using Nexpose and Nessus.
  • Conducting Manual Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for the Web Applications and APIs using Burp Suite Professional.
  • Performing Security scans for the Web Applications and few APIs using Burp Suite Professional.
  • Conducted Manual Vulnerability Assessment for Schneider developed Thick clients for its Manufacturing Plants.
  • Reporting the Vulnerabilities identified in the Security Assessments to the Digital Product Teams and revalidating the issues reported once the developers fix the issues.
  • Providing Sign off for the assessment once all the issues are remediated as a part of certification.
  • Leading Junior resources for the execution of VAPT tasks.
  • Implemented many process Enhancements in the Security Assessment Area and have played a key role for Automation of the Report Generation for the VAPT Assessments.

Penetration Tester

IBM India Software Labs
05.2019 - 12.2019

Responsibilities -includes additional responsibilities and Activities : Additional Responsibilities : Management

  • Performing Web Application and API Security Assessments on IBM Hybrid cloud and Non- Hybrid Cloud Products .
  • Performing Security Scans for the Web Applications and APIs using Burp Suite Professional and IBM Appscan Standard Edition.
  • Conducting Manual Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing for the Web Applications and APIs using Burp Suite Professional.
  • Reporting the Vulnerabilities identified in the Security Assessments to the Product Teams and revalidating the issues reported once the developers to fix the issue.
  • Engaging 3rd Party Pentesting Vendor for some of the IBM Products to be Pentested.
  • Selection of 3rd Party Vendors for the Pentesting engagement .
  • Signing the Statement of Work between the CISO team and 3rd Party Pentesting Vendors.
  • Tracking of Projects that was executed and needs to be executed by the 3rd Party Pentesting Vendors,
  • Being the SPOC for some of the Product Teams and 3rd Party Vendors to provide the required data for Pentesting and engage them.
  • Report review of the Penetration Test from the 3rd Party Vendors and recommend the product team to the vulnerabilities

Engineer - Application Security

Mindtree Ltd.
02.2017 - 04.2019
  • Perform Manual Web Application Security Assessments for the Clients, after onboarding different brands of products in their various websites present across the globe using Burp Suite Professional.
  • Performing Security Scans for the Web Applications using Acunetix v11, IBM Appscan Standard.
  • Performing Infrastructure Scans for various Servers set across the globe using Nessus, Qualysguard and Nmap.
  • Conduct Manual Verification of the Infrastructure Security Assessment and perform Penetration Test of the same using Nmap, Metasploit Framework and tools present in Kali Linux.
  • Reporting the Vulnerabilities identified in the Security Assessments to the client and raising the tickets against the same in the issue tracker for the developers to fix.
  • Interacting with the client for the issues to be fixed and discussion about upcoming security measures to be implemented for the same.
  • Pentest Report review of fellow team members.
  • Tracking all activities performed, by setting clear deadlines and trying to ensure the same are met.

Skills

  • Security Architecture & Secure by Design Principles
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Threat Modeling & Analysis
  • SAST
  • DAST
  • SCA
  • Web Application Penetration Testing
  • Active Directory Penetration Testing
  • Infrastructure Security Assessment
  • Thick Client Security Assessment
  • PLC/SCADA Designing and programming
  • ICS /OT Cybersecurity
  • NIST
  • CIS
  • Red Teaming
  • Offensive Security
  • Security Risk Management
  • Security Engineering

Experience Highlights

  • Around 8 years of Cybersecurity experience
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
    Certification Obtained in 2018 (Version 10) from EC-Council.
  • ICS Cyber Security Certification
    Certified by the Department of Homeland Security , USA.
  • Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)
    Certification Obtained in 2021 from Pentester Academy.
  • Independent Information Security Management
    Successfully handled security tasks autonomously and effectively.
  • Subject Matter Expert & Security Advisor
    Drives cybersecurity activities, including :

         Threat Modeling
         Providing Security Requirements
         SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
         DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
         SCA (Software Composition Analysis)

  • Proficient in Performing Penetration Testing
    Expertise in :

          Application Security (Web, Thick Client, APIs)
          Network/Infrastructure Security Testing
          Hardware Security Testing

  • Secure Architecture Reviews
    Skilled in Reviewing the Architecture for New Product Initiatives , Feature Enhancements and New Technologies introduced to the products and skilled in performing SAST, DAST, and SCA activities.
  • Knowledge of PLC/SCADA Devices & OT Security
    Holds certification as an Industrial Plant Automation Engineer from a reputable ISO organization.

Education Summary

  • Bachelor of Engineering (ECE) with 73% from Anna University, Chennai,India.
  • AISSCE (12th) with 80% from The Hindu Senior Secondary School, Chennai-600005(C.B.S.E).
  • AISSE (10th) with 84% from The Hindu Senior Secondary School, Chennai-600005(C.B.S.E).

Certification

  • Certified Ethical Hacker v10 from EC-Council in 2018.
  • Certified as Industrial Plant Automation Engineer from Technocrat Automation Pvt Ltd, Chennai.
  • Certified as ICS Security Engineer by Dept of Homeland Security, USA
  • Certified Red Team Professional from Pentester Academy in 2021.

Accomplishments

  • Received SPOT ON– UNSTOPPABLE (2018) Award for handling the project and client independently and meeting their satisfaction.
  • Received STEP-UP- Customer First (2021) recognition from few of the Project Teams in Schneider Electric for getting their Assets certified smoothly without any hassle.

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Upper intermediate (B2)

Interests

Making Robots, Motorcycle Riding & Automotive Enthusiast, Playing Percussion Instruments

Additional Information

  • Nationality : Indian
  • Marital Status : Single
  • Passport Number : Will be disclosed at request

Timeline

Product Security Architect

Guidewire Software India Pvt Ltd
01.2024 - Current

Senior Quality Engineer-Security

Crestron Electronics
08.2022 - 12.2023

Cybersecurity Expert - Penetration Testing

Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 05.2022

Penetration Tester

IBM India Software Labs
05.2019 - 12.2019

Engineer - Application Security

Mindtree Ltd.
02.2017 - 04.2019
SuryaPrasad TH