Padma Priya Alaguraj
Chennai
Summary
Desirous Professional with 2.6 years of working experience in Cybersecurity GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance). Always looking for growth opportunities, willing to learn current trend and upskill for accomplishing projects where my acquired skills will be utilized for the betterment of the company.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Analyst
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
Chennai
01.2022 - Current
- CIS Benchmark Hardening – Liaised between Infra & VMS team and had completed preparing the baseline for SQL, Oracle and Linux.
- Vulnerability Assessment using Qualys –Preparing Inventory & reports, conducting meetings with respective Infra team to provide recommendation for optimizing cyber security posture.
- Working with business owner to identify the risk in the system and recommend proper implementation of security controls to remediate any vulnerabilities.
- Performing User access management by checking for compliance and prepared reports for Patch compliance, Domain Admin and Unix users.
- Provided security awareness sessions on cyber-security topics to end users in order to avoid/ minimize ongoing security incidents.
- Prepared security awareness flyers twice a month on topics related to the recent trends in cybersecurity.
- Performing Risk Assessment using RSA Archer tool for multiple internal projects as per ISO 27001 ISMS Standard.
- Participated in regular meetings with internal stakeholders to discuss current security trends, identified risk areas and proposed solutions.
- Prepared SOP's for Security Incident Reporting, Vulnerability Management Process, Hardening process, User Access Management, Onboarding and Offboarding Process and User Accounts Review.
- Prepare Deck to present the Ongoing Security topics in the project and present in the client weekly security workshop.
- Review the onboarding and offboarding of users as per the policy, accounts review to verify if right access granted for right users as per the RBAC policy.
- Prepare threat intel advisory as per the agreed template and share to respective team for follow up actions on remediation.
- Followup with technical team on Tanium tool's operational dashboards to review the status of remediation of vulnerabilities, patching and sentinel one access on servers etc.
- Review and tracking of the SLA/KPI as per the requirement of the project.
- Follow up on security incidents and get justifications from the user.
Security Analyst Trainee
SOC Experts
Chennai
08.2021 - 01.2022
- Having hands on working experience in Splunk enterprise tool and had used virtual cloud labs to Monitor, Analyze and Create Alerts, Reports and Dashboards.
- Having knowledge on system security, network security, OSI Layers and TCP/IP model and protocol, Network and credential-based Attacks, OWASP top 10 attacks and their mitigations.
- Having hands on working experience in Splunk enterprise tool and had used virtual cloud labs to Monitor, Analyze and Create Alerts, Reports and Dashboards.
- Experience in monitoring real-time logs from various devices and do further investigation on Splunk -Knowledge and hands-on experience working with various kinds of analysis including Phishing mail, malware, ransomware in Lets-Defend simulation tool.
- Having basic knowledge of Cortex XSOAR, the overview of GUI of XSOAR, how to integrate available tools, basic knowledge on how to create use case design and create playbooks.
- Having hands on experience and knowledge in these tools and technologies: Splunk Enterprise Letsdefend.io, Virus total, Abuse.ch, Hybrid-Analysis, IPVoid and URLVoid, Wireshark, MxToolBox, Any.run, OllyDbg & Sysmon.
Education
Master of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Madurai 06.2002 - 04.2004
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India 08.1998 - 04.2002
High School - BioMaths
St. Josephs Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India 1996 - 1998
Skills
- Presentation and Communication Skills
- Information Gathering
- Team Player
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to Multitask, coordinate, work well under pressure and meet deadlines
- Able to quickly adapt to new environment and always willing to learn and enhance my knowledge in current trends and having interest in learning new standards and regulations
- Report Preparation
- Deadline Adherence
- Account Reconciliation
- MS Excel
- Compliance Analysis
- KPI Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Documentation and Reporting
Accomplishments
- Got several appreciations and recognitions from client, account manager and program manager for the work done related to presentation and various activities and initiatives taken in the projects which has helped in completion of long pending tasks after I tookover.
- Won the phishing warriors quest in 2023.
- Collaborated with qualys team in the identification of root cause which led to the failure of scan and inturn sped the process of completing the baseline in hardening as a compliance project.
- Achieved 100% compliance in User access review (access revokation, Admin password change at appropriate time) through effectively communicating and monitoring with the access review team and internal team.
- Conducted awareness session on security topics and brought the ongoing security incidents to zero from past few months in current project.
Certification
- ISO 27001_2022 Certified Lead Implementer Professional by BSI in October 2023
- ISC2 CC ( Certified in Cybersecurity) in February 2023
- Certified in Splunk Fundamentals in December 2021
- Fortinet NSE1 and NSE Certification completed in November 2021
Languages
Tamil
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Tools
Qualys
Tanium
RSA Archer
Splunk Enterprise
Cortex XSOAR - fundamentals
Letsdefend.io
Virus total, IPVoid and URLVoid
Abuse.ch
Hybrid-Analysis
Wireshark
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Analyst
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
01.2022 - Current
Security Analyst Trainee
SOC Experts
08.2021 - 01.2022
Master of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
06.2002 - 04.2004
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
08.1998 - 04.2002
High School - BioMaths
St. Josephs Matriculation Higher Secondary School
1996 - 1998
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