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Naga Venkataratnam G

Naga Venkataratnam G

Senior Information Security Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

Senior Information Security Engineer with over 12 years of professional experience. Currently working as a Cyber threat intelligence analyst with focus around intrusion analysis, drafting campaigns and associated actor profiles, utilizing CTI spectrum (Tactical & Startegic) insights to study threat landscape and help our defense stakeholders in rendering the best security controls. My interests also include to investigate Vulnerabilities, Support Patch managements, study of Ransomware & Data breaches to help third party manage their risks. Previous experinece includes Windows System administration (server hardening & IT Operations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Cyber Threat Analyst

Wellsfargo
04.2023 - Current
  • Collaborating with Cyber Threat Intelligence team to execute various tasks.
  • Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.
  • Conducted cyber threat intelligence research and analysis to identify and assess emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Developed and implemented threat intelligence strategies and programs to mitigate cyber threats.
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to provide timely and accurate intelligence to support decision-making.
  • Led and coordinated cross-functional teams to investigate and respond to security incidents.
  • Developed and delivered comprehensive threat intelligence reports and briefings to stakeholders.
  • Protect against web threats such as malware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, information warfare and hacking.
  • Responsible for implementation of security controls and risk mitigation.
  • Updating Threat Package Library (TPL) of newly emerging threat actors based on MITRE framework.

Senior Information Security Engineer- AVP

Wells Fargo
06.2019 - 03.2023
  • Working on QVR items with medium & high criticality. Based on the reported QYLS results, have scanned the entire remediate and create & execute the CRs, and eventually remediated the associated vulnerabilities.
  • Worked on the compliance items, ran the ORM scans, and ensured the items are back compliant.
  • Performed daily Windows patching as per the DMAN schedules. Failed over the roles and worked on cluster nodes as per their special instructions. DMAN assignments have been taken care.
  • Troubleshooting RDP connectivity issues, server hung BSOD error issues. Have rebuilt the PS corrupt issue servers.
  • Coordinated with HP and DELL vendors for hardware-related issues like (Drive failures, Raid battery replacement, Power supply, and other Hardware failures).
  • Adept in imparting 360 degree leadership, building relations, and collaborating with key business partners within and outside the organization, while creating a shared vision.
  • A thought leader, competent in cyber security practice, skilled in building and scaling up high performing teams via mentoring and building trustworthy relations.
  • Robust interpersonal skills with adequate emotional intelligence to relate effectively with a range of individuals posing diverse personality types from different cultural backgrounds, while adapting to changing situations with tact, poise, and patience.
  • Analyzing and troubleshooting capacity issues and adding extra disks or increasing the drive space at need.
  • Participated in SAN Array migrations.
  • Rendered on calls support on a rotational basis. Took care of follow-up emails, PRBs, and provided end-to-end OS support.
  • Prepared the application documents along with its process maps.
  • Individually created and executed CR/WO/WR/PRB and performed various maintenance activities over the Windows servers.
  • During emergency patching, I took care of DMAN assignments and shared the workload among the team, also stood on top of meeting the deadlines.
  • Prepared reports on the weekly & monthly accomplishments of the team.
  • Java updates of standard OS paths are completely taken care of by myself in the team.

AVP-Information Security

Wells Fargo
06.2017 - 06.2019
  • We are provided with work orders by vulnerability teams & work requests by application teams to remediate their products.
  • Handled Incidents, problem records, and service requests on daily basis are generated automatically or by stakeholders in the BMC remedy tool. Upgraded software s remediated listed vulnerabilities; applied Microsoft-released Patches on regular basis.
  • Worked on Microsoft cluster service as per requirement, moved resources performed check-ups, and troubleshoot cluster failure events too.
  • Performed Firmware / PSP updates. Server decommissions and rebuilding via ILO.
  • Performed RCAs for the server hung/unexpected reboots. Managing VM snapshots per requirements.
  • Documenting and creating knowledge bases for the entire project.
  • Generated reports on a daily, weekly & monthly basis on incident reduction, server uptime, antivirus reports, etc.
  • IIS administration, certificate updates & code deployments via HPSA.
  • Back up & restore OS and user files with TSM and netback up clients.
  • Played the role of change coordinator in the team, role was to coordinate the change from its starting phase that is identifying analyzing the scenario, and implementing them.
  • Coordinated with different vendors for hardware replacements and diagnosis.

TL (Technical Lead) - L3 Domain

Wipro Technologies
06.2013 - 06.2017
  • Company Overview: Client: Microsoft (September 2013 - June 2017) WLM - Windows Live Mail - Microsoft
  • Providing production level support for over 35000+ servers and some web servers.
  • Adhering to response and resolution SLAs for all categories of tickets (Troubleshooting and resolving database and server issues within the defined SLA).
  • Gathering, processing, and analyzing the data feeds to develop an actionable threat intelligence to evaluate the cyber threat landscape against the security capabilities of the organization.
  • Monitor the channels through which information flows into and out of an organization's information network, and responsible for observing all of the operations occurring across the network and managing the infrastructure that facilitates those operations.
  • Responsible for handling tickets and provide the resolution for service restoration.
  • Having experience on installing patches on 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 servers.
  • Managing and troubleshooting hardware issues on 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 servers.
  • Monitoring the performance of servers through tools like TMF (Transaction Modulation form), Metron and Aqua man studio.
  • Experience on DB backups and restoring them.
  • Identifying the root cause on servers and providing the resolution with in SLA.
  • Installing new software's and patches on 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 servers.
  • Re-building Operating Systems on servers (2003, 2008, 2008 R2) that are in the Hotmail Environment.
  • Experience on reading event logs and identifying the issues and resolving them.
  • Experience on resolving BSOD (Blue Screen on Death) issues.
  • Experience on managing and resolving issues on all hotmail servers.(Front End and Back End).Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose server problems: SSA 700, MDS600 Storage Enclosure and JBOD machines.
  • Performing Maintenance Activities on the servers that are not in production which are with hardware/software issues that may lead to the gap in service delivery of the customer. And thereby taking responsibility in assuring that server is good to put back in production.
  • Experience in Automation tools like AQMN STDIO, Blind Squirrel, SCOM related alarms. Converting them to as tickets, creation rules that append the tickets as escalate to the various teams.
  • Worked as a Transition Lead for Tier 1 support of Outlook Properties.
  • Client: Microsoft (September 2013 - June 2017) WLM - Windows Live Mail - Microsoft

Education

Bachelor Of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Enginneering

Satyabama University
Chennai, Tamilnadu

Skills

Cyber Threat Intelligence (OSINT, ThreatConnect, Silobreaker, Intel471, Flashpoint, FS-ISAC)

Certification

Certified in Cyber Security (ISC)²

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/05/91
  • Gender: Male
  • Marital Status: Married

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the details mentioned above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Career Path

  • Senior Project Engineer, 2013-2017
  • Operations System Analyst 2, 2017-2019
  • Sr. Information Security Analyst, 2019-2020
  • Information Security Engineer, 2020-2022
  • AVP-Sr. Information Security Engineer, 2022-Present

Professional Traits

  • Excellent business communication, presentation, leadership, and closing skills.
  • Results-driven and inquisitive professional committed to tight deadlines.

Accomplishments

  • Cleared Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification
  • Recieved Gold Medal in Bachelors of Engineering

Timeline

(ISC)² Certified information systems security professional (CISSP)

03-2025

Cyber Threat Analyst

Wellsfargo
04.2023 - Current

Senior Information Security Engineer- AVP

Wells Fargo
06.2019 - 03.2023

AVP-Information Security

Wells Fargo
06.2017 - 06.2019

TL (Technical Lead) - L3 Domain

Wipro Technologies
06.2013 - 06.2017

Bachelor Of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Enginneering

Satyabama University

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