Manichandu Thati
Hyderabad
Summary
To associate with an innovative and vibrant organization, allowing me to put my competencies to the best use, to add value to the organization and contribute to my overall growth as an individual.
Results-driven cybersecurity professional with four years of hands-on experience in diverse roles including Senior Cybersecurity Analyst and Team Lead. Proficient in leveraging multiple SIEM tools to develop effective use cases and fortify network security through established industry standards and best practices. Adept at leading and managing teams to deliver client-focused solutions.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst & Team Lead
Network Intelligence
Mumbai
04.2022 - Current
- Successfully crafted and implemented a multitude of custom Usecases and Dashboards tailored to specific client needs, resulting in improved threat detection and enhanced data visualization.
- Monitored and analyzed security systems and networks to identify potential threats and built use cases on those to detect possible attack scenarios and threats.
- Responded to security incidents by conducting investigations, and providing recommendations to prevent future incidents
- Monitored user activities on the network for suspicious behavior or malicious activity.
- Provided training on various topics related to cybersecurity awareness and best practices.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of evolving cybersecurity trends and technologies.
- Designed and implemented multiple dashboards for swift anomaly detection and prioritized DDOS-centric panels for proactive threat detection.
- Created multiple correlated use cases from scratch based on log analysis and research
- Conducted CKC & MITRE mapping for existing and new use cases.
- Updated Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and reference sets to ensure precise threat detection.
- Proficient in basic threat-hunting and anomaly-detection techniques
- Managing team of L1 members working in shifts
- Proficient in managing and administering the Performance Management System (PMS) for Level 1 support teams.
- Facilitated the establishment of performance goals and objectives for Level 1 support staff in alignment with organizational objectives and Key Performance Indicators.
- Monitoring high triggering rules to investigate and check the feasibility of fine-tuning
- Check newly created devices to ensure rules coverage for them
- Dashboards and reports creation in SIEM
- Analyzing payloads and sharing the details of fields required in parsing
- Troubleshooting and fine-tuning the rules on timely basis
- Weekly, Monthly and quarterly SOC report review and presentation with client
- Providing detailed analysis of incidents raised by L1 whenever required
- Proficient in basic threat-hunting and anomaly-detection techniques.
- Maintained prompt communication with clients, delivering SOC updates, issue resolutions, and agreed-upon deliverables
- Facilitated SOC review meetings with both internal teams and clients, promoting collaboration and providing regular updates.
- Assisted clients with proper pieces of evidence and documents during Audits and Assessments.
- Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
- Developed standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for streamlined processes and consistency.
- Developed and delivered security awareness training to employees and Teammates
- Performing Daily incident review
- Developing and delivering security awareness training to employees
- Creating and reviewing Runbooks for newly created use cases
- Creating reports using PowerBi for team whenever required
- Collaborating with different teams i.e
- Sales, engineering and management to run the project smoothly.
- Made recommendations to improve security procedures and systems.
- Provided essential support and mentorship to analysts in triaging, analyzing, and investigating critical incidents.
- Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing Cortex XSOAR for security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR tasks
- Configured and customized Cortex XSOAR playbooks, integrations, incident types, fields, and layouts to align with organizational security requirements.
- Designed, developed, and maintained Cortex XSOAR playbooks to automate repetitive security tasks, including alert triage, malware analysis, phishing investigation, and user provisioning.
- Implemented best practices for playbook development, including error handling, logging, and parameterization, to ensure scalability and maintainability.
Cybersecurity Analyst
Network Intelligence
Mumbai
11.2019 - 04.2022
- Experienced in overseeing operations for deterring, identifying, monitoring, investigating, and analyzing computer network intrusions.
- Analysis and documentation of the events associated with an alert according to Standard Operating Procedure.
- Threat hunting of logs in depth from various devices for the detection of anomalies in the network.
- Creating weekly and Monthly SOC incident reports using Power BI.
- Monitor and analyze security events and alerts from multiple sources, including SIEM tools, network, and host-based intrusion detection systems, firewall logs, system logs (Windows and Unix), and databases.
- Working on the tickets and tasks assigned in the ticketing tool adhering to the defined SLA and also to the customer requirements.
- Daily logs analysis, case creation/closure, and incident response
- Assisting Senior analysts in case of any queries or additional analysis required.
Education
Bachelor of Forensic Sciences -
Jain University
Bangalore04-2019
Skills
- SIEM (ArcSight, IBM Qradar, Kibana, Cy5 ion console)
- Ticketing Tool Handled :- Fresh Service, Spiceworks, Service Now & Manage engine
- Business Intelligence Tool :- Power BI
- Reports and Dashboards
- Team management
- SIEM Content Development & Management
- Log analysis
- Project management
- Rules and Use cases
- Incident Detection & Response
- Anomaly Detection
Websites
Disclaimer
I, Manichandu, hereby declare that the information contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Accomplishments
- Awarded the prestigious SLA Rockstar Award in recognition of consistently meeting and exceeding the highest Service Level Agreement (SLA) benchmarks within the organization.
Certification
- AZ 500 Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH V10)
- Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS)
- Fortinet Network Security Expert.
Timeline
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst & Team Lead
Network Intelligence
04.2022 - Current
Cybersecurity Analyst
Network Intelligence
11.2019 - 04.2022
Bachelor of Forensic Sciences -
Jain University
- AZ 500 Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH V10)
- Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS)
- Fortinet Network Security Expert.
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