Enthusiastic professional with a unique combination of positive attitude, exceptional communication and relationship management skills, and strong analytical abilities. Highly motivated and result-oriented, hard-working individual with a strong desire to continuously learn and adapt to new technologies. Over 6 years of experience in the IT industry, bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise to any team or project.
Hi, I’m
Kotisiva Reddy
Cyber Security Professional
Hyderabad
Summary
Overview
7
years of professional experience
5
Certificates
4
Languages
Work History
Firstsource SolutionsHyderabad, Telangana
Lead Consultant - Security Operations
04.2025 - Current
Job overview
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of project milestones and deliverables.
- Assessed potential risks during project planning stages, developing contingency plans to mitigate negative impacts on deliverables.
- Documentation of the incidents and discussing with the team for improvements
- Currently working on DSPM (Data Security Posture Management Solution) Varonis integration especially for copilot (Large language Model)
- Fine tuning the WAF (Akamai) policies based on the business trends by collaborating with the application teams
- Working on Adhoc requests shared to the team.
- Create exceptions on crowdstrike, sentinel based on the Adhoc requests and fine tuning process.
- Part of the team which implements Information security policies (CIPP) for the organization.
- Troubleshooting PGP application issues and API key rotation
- Streamlined internal processes for better resource allocation and improved operational efficiency.
Firstsource
Senior Consultant - Security Engineer
12.2023 - 03.2025
Job overview
- Helping out the SOC team members in incident analysis and incident response
- Part of phishing simulation team to assess the risk involved with respect to the global trends
- Fine tuning and creating the alert logic based on the trends in the SIEM (Sentinel) and the latest Threat landscape
- Fine tuning the playbooks available in the Sentinel
- Phishing email analysis using the email sanitization tools like Defender, abnormal security
- Troubleshooting the sentinel connectors and updating the connectors continuously
- Documentation of the incidents and discussing with the team for improvements
- Currently working on DSPM (Data Security Posture Management Solution) integration especially for copilot (Large language Model)
- Fine tuning the WAF (Akamai) policies based on the business trends by collaborating with the application teams
- Working on Adhoc requests shared to the team.
- Create exceptions on crowdstrike, sentinel based on the Adhoc requests and fine tuning process.
Atos
Senior Analyst
08.2021 - 12.2023
Job overview
- Working as a Threat Hunter with primary duty revolving around identifying the threats which cannot be identified by the SOC team
- Threat hunting mainly involves Structured, unstructured hunting methodology
- Working on AI & ML Model outputs captured for various security appliances (Firewall, proxy, IDS/IPS & WAF)
- Researching latest threats and hunt those in the client environment
- Looking for suspicious behaviour based on user and entity behavioural patterns
- Have hands-on experience with the Aissac Threat Management tool which is a SIEM tool used for correlating the logs and finding out the anomalies
- Investigating the network logs and reporting the anomalies based on the patterns
- Log analysis from network devices such as Firewalls, IDS, IPS, Operating Systems like Windows, and Networking Devices
- Mapping the threats with MITRE Att & Ck attack patterns
- Hands-on experience in checking the reputation of IP addresses & domains on multiple threat Intel platforms
- Investigating the URLs in a sandbox environment for potential threats
- Recommending mitigate measures for the threats found and improving the security posture if security controls not implemented
- Experience in handling multiple clients simultaneously
- Preparing reports for anomalies and weekly reports
Wipro
Senior Associate
10.2018 - 08.2021
Job overview
- Preparing daily and weekly dashboards on the security threats and trends on the network
- Working on Real-time network traffic by analyzing the logs from IDS and Firewalls through SIEM Tool
- Working for different member firms such as US, Canada, Cyber-SOC, and Global
- Escalating to the client based on suspicious traffic
- Investigating the events based on particular criteria by creating an Active Channel
- Raising Incidents if any suspicious or illegitimate; notifying to Client
- Updating SOPs as per modifications
- Providing 24x7; L-1 on-call support; coordinating with required Teams to resolve the high severity issues
- Customizing the Active Channels by Adding or Removing the Columns
- Checking the overall system health; reporting it to the Admin Team daily
- Checking Connector's health status; and reporting it to the Admin team
- Monitoring Windows logs; raising cases for login failures & lockouts based on defined thresholds
- Monitoring UNIX logs; raising cases for authentication failures
- Monitoring database logs; raising cases for suspicious login failures, DB shutdown activities, critical command execution, etc
- Monitoring proxy logs; cases on high bandwidth for unwanted external sites, suspicious downloads/uploads
- Updating Blacklisted IP details daily based on inputs from IP-void
- Forwarding the threat Intel mails to the client
- Handle the complete incident management framework cycle right from incident identification, and incident Containment, performing root cause analysis, suggestion and implementation of preventive and Corrective controls, and performing network analysis as needed on a case to case basis
Education
GITAM UniversityVisakhapatnam, India
from B Tech
01-2016
University Overview
Narayana Junior College
XIIth
01-2012
University Overview
Skills
Sentinel
undefinedCertification
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals AZ 900
Timeline
Lead Consultant - Security Operations
Firstsource Solutions
04.2025 - Current
Senior Consultant - Security Engineer
Firstsource
12.2023 - 03.2025
Senior Analyst
Atos
08.2021 - 12.2023
Senior Associate
Wipro
10.2018 - 08.2021
GITAM University
from B Tech
Narayana Junior College
XIIth
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Languages
English
Telugu
Hindi
Kannada
Other Competencies
Other Competencies
- Basic Knowledge on Python, SQL, Yara rules.
- Good Understanding of OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities, NIST Framework, MITRE Att & Ck.
- Basic Knowledge on threat modelling frameworks like STRIDE.
- Knowledge on tools like Wireshark, Nessus, Zenmap etc.
Software
SIEM, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, WAF, EDR/XDR, Email Security, PGP
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