Madhan A K
Cyber security researcher
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Experienced Cyber Security professional with 19+ years in software design and development. Specializes in security for Infrastructure, Platform, Application, Mobile, and Cloud domains. Proficient in Product Security & Privacy Risk Assessment/Management, Incident Management, and Threat Modeling across industries including Mobile Telecommunication, Healthcare, Electrical & Electronics, Technology services, Semiconductor manufacturing, and Cloud consumers. Skilled in software development using major programming languages with a proven ability to quickly learn and excel in diverse technologies.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Product Security Expert / Security Researcher
Intel Corporation
11.2022 - Current
- Managed multiple research projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
- Developed tool to enable fuzzing of kernel modules for Gaudi 2 & 3 accelerator modules and found 20% additional issues reported by development team
- Improved overall security findings by 40% for all the components managed through fuzzing, manual, static, and dynamic scans.
- Integrating Docker for all our test suites for packaging, deployment, and testing improved the testing efficiency by 60%.
Principal Cyber Security Architect
Honeywell
08.2021 - 11.2022
- Creating Azure Security Policies on Containers, AKS, Data Security, IAM/PKI for Honeywell Connected Enterprise.
- Creating a threat model, network diagram, and data flow to accurately determine the security gaps, and identify security controls to mitigate the vulnerabilities.
- Hardening of host, guest, application, network, container, and Kubernetes for on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
Sr Staff Cyber Security Architect
GE Healthcare
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Integrated mock services for API integration tests, and verified OAuth workflows to identify security issues in access control and authorization mechanisms, thereby improving test efficiency by 60%.
- Designed log aggregation, monitoring, and alerting using Prometheus, AlertManager, and Grafana dashboards for VMs and the platform for better auditing and reporting.
- Hardening of the host, guest, application, network, container, and Kubernetes for on-premise solutions, thereby reducing the Docker image size by 50%.
Senior Security Specialist - Product Security 1
Philips Healthcare
11.2017 - 03.2019
- Application security scaling from IoT, web services, thick client, thin client, secure development life cycle, server/container/Kubernetes.
- Hardening & Auditing, IAM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, PKI, PKCS.T, PKI, PKCS.
Chief Engineer
Samsung
05.2013 - 10.2017
- Designed and developed security solutions for Tizen phones, and automated testing procedures.
- Improved the launch time of web runtime security modules running inside Tizen OS by 40% through late loading.
- Developed TrustZone applications for MasterCard, VISA, and Amex for Samsung Pay on SmartWatch, and was instrumental in resolving all the issues during CETECOM and FIME certification.
Lead Engineer
GE Transportation
04.2012 - 05.2013
- Developed a testing framework based on inter-process communication for validating all the workflows of On-Board Diagnostic modules, which improved the testing efficiency by 60%.
- Participated in the design and review of other dependent modules, developing automated testing procedures to independently validate the interactions between modules.
Team Lead
Hewlett-Packard Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2012
- Implemented Server Hardening for the all the Unix OS deployed in HP and remote monitoring for changes and reporting
- Revamped Code signing infrastructure from remote to local signing with better access control and auditing capabilities which improved overall signing efficiency by 95%.
- Developed a PAM module for all UNIX varinates supported within HP to enforce stringent password policies
Technical Consultant
Electronics Corporation of India Ltd
08.2004 - 04.2006
- Application development using C, C++, Inter-Process Communication, N/W Programming (TCP/IP, UDP)
Education
B.E - E.C.E
Manonmaniam Sundanar University
Nagercoil, India 05.2000 - 04.2004
Skills
Accomplishments
- Lead a team of security professionals in HP for redesigning code signing framework that improved better access controls, auditing capabilities and signing efficiency by 95% as we moved from remote to local signing methods
- Integrated OAuth mock service for testing user token management for dummy web apps to simulate production environment, thereby identifying access control and authorization issues early by 80%
- Integrated fuzzing framework for AFL & AFL++ for all the firmware developed in Intel and thereby improved the overall code coverage and security findings within Intel by 60%
- Instrumental in the security development, testing and getting CETECOM and FIME certification for Samsung Pay developed for Tizen OS based Smart Watch for SAMSUNG
Certification
RHCE v5
Work Availability
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Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
Malayalam
Advanced (C1)
Software
C
C
OS and Docker hardening
Threat Modeling
Risk Assessment and Management
Static/Dynamic scan
Shell scripting
Hacking
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Work-life balanceFlexible work hoursCareer advancementCompany CultureTimeline
Product Security Expert / Security Researcher
Intel Corporation
11.2022 - Current
Principal Cyber Security Architect
Honeywell
08.2021 - 11.2022
Sr Staff Cyber Security Architect
GE Healthcare
03.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Security Specialist - Product Security 1
Philips Healthcare
11.2017 - 03.2019
Chief Engineer
Samsung
05.2013 - 10.2017
Lead Engineer
GE Transportation
04.2012 - 05.2013
RHCE v5
01-2009
Team Lead
Hewlett-Packard Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2012
Technical Consultant
Electronics Corporation of India Ltd
08.2004 - 04.2006
B.E - E.C.E
Manonmaniam Sundanar University
05.2000 - 04.2004
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