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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
Languages
Timeline
Phalguni

Phalguni

Bangalore

Summary

With Over 9.5 Years of experience, Forward-thinking and confident in leading team members, managing schedules and coordinating resources. Keeps projects on-track with decisive supervision and quick problem-solving. Persuasive in communicating and negotiating with internal team members, vendors and other stakeholders.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification

Work History

Senior Associate-Project

Cognizant Technologies
Bangalore
07.2023 - Current
  • Leading Vulnerability Management Process.
  • Planning and suggesting Vulnerability Management Best Practices to the client.
  • Vulnerability Reporting and coordinated with stakeholders from various departments to ensure the efficient remediation. Accomplished more than 30 percent vulnerability closer within 2 Months.
  • Prepared weekly progress reports summarizing accomplishments achieved over the course of each week's activities.
  • Responsible for Process documentation within the project.
  • Providing trainings to the teams on Cyber security fundamentals and vulnerability management.

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Emudhra Limited (Bank Client)
Bangalore
10.2021 - 07.2023
  • Worked on tracking upskill trainings for the team members and new joiners.
  • Trained and guided the team on cyber security fundamentals and daily vulnerability management operations.
  • Handled Vulnerability assessment processes using Tenable.SC.
  • Scheduled, tracked monthly Vulnerability assessments and daily ad hoc scans.
  • Analyzing Threat Advisories using Tenable SC and ATP.
  • Troubleshooting Authentication and Reachability Issues in VA Scans with the Stakeholders.
  • Baseline Compliance assessment and reporting for servers and network devices using Tenable SC and HPNA
  • Improvement of existing Process
  • Configuration review of the middleware, OS, Network devices
  • Risk-based mitigation for networks, operating systems, and applications. Compiling and tracking vulnerabilities and mitigation.
  • Coordinating with multiple services owners for RBVMJ request validation and Jira closer.
  • Performing Monthly review for security advisory & Threat intelligence update
  • Manage & configure Azure subscription for RBVM Servers .Tenable security center & Tenable Nessus Manager build configuration & Management

Consultant

Infrasoft Technology(Bank Client)
Mumbai
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • Planned and scheduled Vulnerability scans to be run on the customer's environment using Qualys Guard tool.
  • Configured report templates, generated and segregated reports, configured asset groups and tags, created option profiles (scan profiles), created Vulnerability Lists from the knowledge base in Qualys Guard.
  • Conducted vulnerability scanning using Tenable.io.
  • Worked with stakeholders and technical teams to remediate vulnerabilities, tracked SLAs for Vulnerability remediation.
  • Worked on the policy compliance module in Qualys.
  • Took appropriate actions on threat advisories
  • Prioritized vulnerabilities based on Tenable risk and threat intelligence
  • Contacted vendors in case of missing CVE IDs, feature requests, and tool-related issues.

Associate Consultant

ATOS India
Bangalore
03.2019 - 06.2020
  • Planned and scheduled scans to be run on the customer's environment.
  • Worked in different Qualys Guards Modules like VM, Policy Compliance, web application scanning.
  • Conducted vulnerability scanning using Tenable.io
  • Worked with stakeholders and technical teams to remediate vulnerabilities.
  • Worked on Change Requests for configuration changes in Scan profiles and schedules.
  • Trained the team on Vulnerability Management tools and operations.

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro
Bangalore
01.2013 - 03.2019
  • Handled incidents related to Windows OS issues, network physical port issues like connectivity, changing port VLAN as per the requirement.
  • Handled incidents related to VOIP phones and printer issues, desktop/laptop hardware issues.
  • Configured security policies in Email and web gateway, managed URL/Email domain and released the email from Quarantine using McAfee Email Gateway.
  • Performed URL white listing and blacklisting, reducing spam emails and avoiding domain blacklisting.
  • Configured vulnerability scans as per the requirement, report templates, asset groups and tags, option profiles (scan profiles) in Qualys Guard.
  • Generated weekly vulnerability reports and shared with stakeholders.

Education

MTech -

BITS Pilani (Wipro Integrated Program)
12.2017

B.S -

BITS Pilani (Wipro Integrated Program)
12.2015

Diploma (Polytechnic) -

Feroz Gandhi Polytechnic
08.2012

Skills

  • Vulnerability Management
  • Policy Compliance
  • Endpoint Security
  • Python Scripting
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure Security
  • Tools: Qualys Guard (All Modules), Tenableio, Tenablesc, Microsoft Defender, McAfee Web Gateway, McAfee Email Gateway, McAfee EPO
  • Familiar Tools: Burpsuite, Wireshark, Okta, Jira, SentinelOne
  • Knowledge about other security domains like endpoint security, email security, IAM, Firewalls
  • Application Security - OWASP Top 10 Knowledge
  • Good communication and Leadership skills
  • Risk Management

Certification

  • Qualys Vulnerability Management Certificate
  • Qualys Policy Compliance Certificate
  • Qualys Cloud Agent Certificate
  • Qualys PCI Compliance
  • Qualys VMDR
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Tenable.SC Specialist

Accomplishments

  • Achieved appreciation from the client for great communication, team management and organizational skills.
  • Achieved Start Performer Award for outstanding performance in project transition phase.

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1

Timeline

Senior Associate-Project - Cognizant Technologies
07.2023 - Current
Senior Cyber Security Engineer - Emudhra Limited (Bank Client)
10.2021 - 07.2023
Consultant - Infrasoft Technology(Bank Client)
01.2021 - 04.2021
Associate Consultant - ATOS India
03.2019 - 06.2020
Senior Project Engineer - Wipro
01.2013 - 03.2019
BITS Pilani (Wipro Integrated Program) - MTech,
BITS Pilani (Wipro Integrated Program) - B.S,
Feroz Gandhi Polytechnic - Diploma (Polytechnic),

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