Md Atif Hussain
Senior Group Manager - Security Engineering
Bengaluru
Summary
12 years leading incident response, automation, and detection engineering across global IT and OT security operations. Proven track record of building and scaling IR capability — from hands-on response in OT manufacturing environments to enterprise-wide IR automation using AI and SOAR. Most recently driving Oracle’s IR automation programme, deploying 16+ Tines SOAR playbooks across the full incident lifecycle, processing thousands of cases monthly. Built SOC and IR capability from zero at Saviynt within 90 days. Led Global SOC operations at AB InBev across IT and OT environments — 150,000+ endpoints in 50+ countries — with direct board-level reporting and hands-on incident response leadership in global manufacturing environments using Claroty for OT threat detection and response. Experienced managing hybrid delivery models combining internal teams with outsourced MSSP/MDR providers, governing vendor SLAs, and translating cybersecurity risk into executive language. CISM-certified; CISSP in progress.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Manager - Cyber Security & IAM
Saviynt
07.2024 - 05.2025
- Stood up the security operations function from zero for a high-growth identity-security vendor — team structure, processes, and tooling fully operational within 90 days.
- Established MSSP governance: SLA management, escalation matrices, and vendor performance monitoring.
- Led cloud security operations (CSPM) and EDR rollout, delivering consistent endpoint and cloud coverage across the organization.
- Built attack-surface management and integrated application security and vulnerability management into a unified operations framework.
Senior Manager - Cyber Security Operations
ABInBev India
07.2021 - 07.2024
- • Led global 24x7 mission-critical operations across 150,000+ endpoints in 50+ countries (IT and OT environments), with direct board-level reporting and C-suite engagement.
• Managed and developed a distributed team of 12 across time zones — performance, training, career development, and culture.
• Owned MSSP/vendor relationships and SLAs within a hybrid internal + outsourced delivery model.
• Drove continuous improvement: expanded detection coverage from 35% to 72% and reduced attack surface 25% year-over-year.
• Bridged IT/OT operations at production scale across global manufacturing using Claroty.
Principal Analyst
Optiv Security
01.2019 - 07.2021
- Working on Incidents alerted through multiple security controls like EDR, IPS, IDS, correlations in SIEM, Proxy
- Created multiple False Positive identification technique to reduce FPs by 45%.
- Collecting requirement from client and implementing best practices for the project
- Creating new SOPs and establishing process management and change management process
- Technical Lead of the team for multiple MDR operations project
- Creation of Dashboard in SIEM
- Fine-tuning alerts and creating new Co-relation Rules
- Creation of use-cases and updating of rules in Crowdstrike on the Threat analysis
- Creating SOPs and Use Case creation
- Worked on Azure Sentinel and Security Center
- Presenting weekly Service review reports to the client
- Working on threat hunting modules using Crowdstrike.
IT Security Analyst II
Novo Nordisk A/S
10.2017 - 01.2019
- Working as Service Architect for PIM solution from CyberArk
- Performing Vulnerability Assessment using Nessus (Security Center)
- IPS Administration: Policy update, IPS version upgrade, Blocking of Malicious IPs as per analysis is a part of my job
- Working on Security event logging and monitoring services, SIEM i.e
- Splunk
- Perform analysis of data across the organization /to identify and contain IT security incidents
- Ensure that all the services such as log collection, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection and prevention are available and running.
Information security Specialist
McAfee Software
05.2017 - 10.2017
- Working on creating and configuring SIEM rules
- Worked on Security event logging and monitoring services
- Perform analysis of data across the organization to identify and contain IT security incidents
IT Security Analyst
Epsilon
11.2016 - 05.2017
- Analyzing security events generated from various tools such as IDS/IPS, Email Security, SIEM
- Worked on Security event logging and monitoring services.
Senior Group Manager - Security Engineering
Oracle
05.2025 - Current
- Direct enterprise security engineering and SOC operations across Oracle SaaS, OCI, and multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) — owning service strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery.
- Lead an enterprise automation program of 16+ SOAR (Tines) playbooks across the full incident lifecycle — intake, triage, enrichment, closure, reporting — processing thousands of cases monthly; “analyst-hours-saved” tracked as a P0 leadership KPI.
- Delivered AI-driven automation that cut detection time-to-production by 40%, improving service efficiency and mean-time-to-respond.
- Built a CI/CD pipeline with mandatory peer review and dev → stage → prod promotion, raising release reliability and operational quality at scale.
• Report posture, service performance, and program delivery to senior leadership.
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
10.2014 - 11.2016
- Working with multiple customers as a consultant in a technical capacity across SOC services, SIEM fine tuning, Security architecture
- Created Splunk dashboards for continuous monitoring for SOC to identify ransomware behavior, data exfiltration patterns.
Education
B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
West Bengal University of Technology
Kolkata, WBSkills
Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCPNetskopeEDR - Crowdsrtike, Sentinel OnceSOARMicrosoft Defender SuiteMimecast, ProofpointIDS/IPSVulnerability Management - QualysCybersecurity analysisExcellent Communication and presentation skills
Project Management
Team Leadership
Incident Response Management
Intrusion Detection
Endpoint Protection
Certification
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Accomplishments
- Super Star of the Year-2019
- Star of Month January – 2020
- Rock Star of the Quarter – Q1 2020
- Rock Star Award – H1 2020
- Excellence in Action Awards – Q4 2021
- Multiple Shared Challenge Awards from 2021
Timeline
Senior Group Manager - Security Engineering
Oracle
05.2025 - Current
Senior Manager - Cyber Security & IAM
Saviynt
07.2024 - 05.2025
Senior Manager - Cyber Security Operations
ABInBev India
07.2021 - 07.2024
Principal Analyst
Optiv Security
01.2019 - 07.2021
IT Security Analyst II
Novo Nordisk A/S
10.2017 - 01.2019
Information security Specialist
McAfee Software
05.2017 - 10.2017
IT Security Analyst
Epsilon
11.2016 - 05.2017
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
10.2014 - 11.2016
B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering -
West Bengal University of Technology