Prateek Khare
Senior Security Engineer
Pune
Summary
Experienced Cyber Security Engineer with a strong background in cloud security, incident response and risk management. Skilled in designing and implementing security policies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Proven track record of safeguarding data and networks in dynamic, high-stakes environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Senior Security Engineer
Cotiviti India Pvt Ltd.
1 2022 - Current
- Design and implement security architecture for cloud and on-premises systems, ensuring comprehensive protection against threats.
- Develop and enforce cloud security standards and best practices to protect data and applications hosted in cloud environments such as AWS and Azure.
- Conducting risk assessments and security reviews of existing and new cloud systems, applications and services.
- Create, maintain and enforce security policies and governance frameworks.
- Oversee the implementation of security monitoring tools to detect and respond to threats in real-time across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Lead incident response efforts and perform digital forensics investigations to identify, contain and remediate security incidents.
- Work closely with development, network and infrastructure teams to integrate security into their processes and initiatives.
- Creating and fine tuning Use Cases.
- Creating and enforcing security policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Provide training and awareness programs to employees and stakeholders to promote a culture of cybersecurity.
- Creating Playbooks and SOPs.
SOC L1 Analyst
Nuance Communications
12.2019 - 12.2021
- Monitoring alerts generated by security tools and
scheduled searches, investigating root causes and
coordinating with end users/teams for remediation. - Critical security incident handling, Incident report
preparation for executives and working with asset
owners for containment and remediation measures. - Development of security use cases, scripts and
procedures and fine tuning existing rules. - Communicate policies with end-users.
- Participate in projects/security exercises to improve
security monitoring toolkits as well as to improve
defensive controls. - Creating SOPs and documentation in Confluence.
- Working on various security tools: CrowdStrike Falcon, Sumo Logic, Cisco Umbrella, ProofPoint, Rapid7
Nexpose, Cisco Firepower, Symantec Endpoint
Protection, Jira (ticketing tool)
Information Security Analyst
Zensar Technologies
07.2017 - 11.2019
- Provide Information Security Operations Center (ISOC) support on a 24x7x365 basis by shift work with rotation
- Hands on Symantec Security Information Manager
- Review automated daily security event, identify anomalies, and escalate critical security events to the appropriate IT Team and follow-up as required
- Monitoring windows services, Application production server, website connectivity, server health & disk Size
- Performing Real-Time Monitoring, monitor multiple security alert sources, eliminate false positive from
- Symantec SIEM
- Based on impact and nature of Security incident, triage significant security events and escalate according to the established procedures
- Creating Daily, Monthly reports and Ad-hoc reports of various devices for stakeholders.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
RGPV University
Bhopal 07.2013 - 06.2017
Skills
Incident Response
Vulnerability Management
Splunk
Sumo Logic
Crowdstrike
Proofpoint
Zscalar
Wiz
Qualys
Darktrace
Cisco Umbrella
Azure Sentinel
Service Now
Axonious
Jira
Cloud Security
DLP - GTB
DLP - Digital Guardian
Forensic Analysis
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
Additional Information
- English
- Hindi
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
06-2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01))
09-2022
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
11-2020
Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500)
10-2020
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
08-2020
SOC L1 Analyst
Nuance Communications
12.2019 - 12.2021
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv10)
10-2019
Information Security Analyst
Zensar Technologies
07.2017 - 11.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
RGPV University
07.2013 - 06.2017
Senior Security Engineer
Cotiviti India Pvt Ltd.
1 2022 - Current