Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Certification
Soft Skills
Disclaimer
Timeline
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Nikhil Kumar

Nikhil Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

I am a Cyber Security Professional with 8 years of experience. Highly focused on Cyber Threat detection and response through implementation of SIEM/SOAR technologies in line with Security frameworks.

Security professional prepared for high-stakes environments, bringing valuable experience in threat detection and mitigation. Known for strong collaboration and results-oriented approach, adept at adapting to evolving security challenges. Proficient in risk assessment and incident response, valued for reliability and flexibility.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

Infosys
03.2022 - Current

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Leading a Team size of 12 members for Insurance Company customer.

•Handling critical, high and escalated incidents by L1&L2 Analysts.

•Performing log analysis and investigating the threats on Multiple SIEM Tools

•Analyzing the Security Alerts and performing Troubleshooting, Incident Analysis & Validation, Incident Remediation Recommendation.

•Analyzing the Phishing emails.

•Performed Peer review of incidents closed by L1&L2 Analysts.

•Working on Threat Advisories and sharing with Customers

•Created SOPs for Multiple Customers

•Initiate 1-1 calls with team members regarding the improvement of incident analysis.

•Training newly hired soc analysts on SOC policies and procedures.

•Creating automated playbooks to reduces manual efforts.

•Reviewing and present weekly reports to client.

•Provided improvement plans to the customer for SOC.

•Exporting reports from Qradar and SOAR as per the requirement.

•Malware Analysis on Multiple Threat Intelligence sites: MX Toolbox, Virus Total, UrlScan, IBM, IP Void, Abuse IP DB

•Working on use case fine tuning to reduce the False Positive alerts.

Senior Security Analyst (SOC)

Happiest Minds Technology
05.2019 - 02.2022

Associate

24/7.ai
04.2016 - 03.2018

Education

MCA -

Galgotia University
01.2015

BCA - undefined

Sikkim Manipal University
01.2011

Skills

  • SIEM Tools: Qradar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk
  • Email Security– PhishER, Proof Point TAP, Proof Point TRAP and Proof Point Smart Search
  • EDR: McAfee, MS Defender
  • Operating System : Windows
  • Ticketing Tool: Service Now, SOAR, Demisto Resilient
  • Antivirus: MS Defender, Symantec
  • Sandbox: Cuckoo Sandbox & Anyrun
  • Cloud: Amazon Web Services
  • Vulnerabilities: Qualys
  • DLP: McAfee ePO
  • Incident response management

Languages

English & Hindi

Certification

Certified Ethical Hacker

Soft Skills

  • I am a self-motivated person and ability to work in a team and as an individual.
  • Expressive, Quick learner with Positive approach.
  • Decision making and Time management.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars. Nikhil Kumar

Timeline

Consultant

Infosys
03.2022 - Current

Senior Security Analyst (SOC)

Happiest Minds Technology
05.2019 - 02.2022

Associate

24/7.ai
04.2016 - 03.2018

BCA - undefined

Sikkim Manipal University

MCA -

Galgotia University
Nikhil Kumar