Premnath Damodharan
Cyber Security Professional
Chennai
Summary
Cyber Security Professional with 17+ Years of experience in IT Security Operations, Risk Management, Governance, Solutioning, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Cloud Native, Security Architecture and Design Reviews.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Group Manager
L&T Technology Services
10.2023 - Current
- Managing and directing Data and Cyber Security projects activities across globe
- Creating a portfolio, define scope, roadmaps for the customers related to Cyber risk assessment, incident response, red team and threat Intelligence
- Guiding security engineering team in reviewing HLD, LDL designs and to establish and execute robust security controls and policies
- Led the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and conducted thorough evaluations of security technologies for new projects, ensuring the selection of solutions that align with organizational requirements and provide optimal protection against emerging cyber threats.
Leading Cyber Incident Response and Threat Hunting function for the commercial customers
Technology Security Manager
Accenture
06.2022 - 10.2023
- Driving and coordinating response to critical cyber incidents
- Creating and managing the Threat Hunting use cases by exploring the latest adversaries
- Created an IR response plan and operating procedure for Cloud and Containers
- Evaluating new solutions to mitigate existing risks post the Incident Conducting security risk and control assessment for the existing and new projects
- Created an educational and awareness training for the group impacted with the major incident
- Performing third party risk assessment
- People Development: Hiring the right talent and building the right capabilities of the team
- Performance Assessment: Empowering the people, setting up the yearly responsibilities align with the organization's road map, sharing and receiving the performance feedback. Evaluating the performance
Security Consulting Associate Manager
Accenture
05.2019 - 05.2022
- Responding to active breaches and Reducing the risk of breaches by detection engineering
- Lead potential and priority cyber security incidents raised by the business and stake holders
- Investigate security incidents that may negatively impact organization, including hacking attempts, intrusion, and any type of exploit attempts
- Identifying root cause in all priority incidents which involves end user workstations, Cloud, Containers and On-Prem Infra
- Threat hunting in the environment by exploring attack techniques using MITRE framework
- Hunt to find malicious activity within bulk datasets including DNS, proxy, firewall, OS logs and also through IOC'S shared by the threat intelligence community
- Red Teaming activities
- Consulting and helping the project and its clients on high profile incidents and active attacks
Tech Lead
Ericsson
11.2015 - 05.2019
- Leading Security Operations and Governance team
- Leading initiatives in cyber risk identification, third-party risk assessment, and incident response management
- Security control reviews, defining scopes, testing plans, and automation strategies to assess and enhance key cybersecurity controls continuously
- Performing security assessments on new projects, ensuring alignment with internal policies and frameworks while mitigating risks
- Conduct comprehensive information security reviews for third-party vendors, assessing security capabilities and potential data leakage risks
Enterprise IT Security Analyst
Unisys
06.2014 - 11.2015
- Subject Matter Expert for Enterprise accounts in IT Security
- More specific in Endpoint Security Management
- Endpoint Detection and Response, Data Protection
- Design and Review Solution Architecture in Endpoint, Email, Encryption, Network Access Control and Data
- Loss Prevention
- Provided effort (FTE) and costing solutions for the new accounts in the bidding process on their information
- Security architect planning / designing / implementation / monitoring and management
- Drive SLA, OLA, Process Compliance & KPI achievements in assigned accounts
- Delivering Training, knowledge sharing sessions to the Operations and Project teams, overseeing the implementations and client assignments
Technical Account Manager aka Remote Product Specialist
Symantec
06.2011 - 05.2014
- Managed enterprise business critical accounts covering Endpoint Security, Compliance and Data Protection
- Single point of contact for the customer of all technical issues
- Suggest improvements in design and operations of the customer’s environment
- Manage the support engineers or be directly involved in the trouble shooting, when necessary in customer side
- Travelling to the customer location to resolve the priority technical issues and getting feedback from the customers to ensure that they are satisfied with the Symantec products and support
- Providing mitigation strategies relevant to the global security standards and best practices
Systems Engineer
Wipro Technolgies
07.2008 - 06.2011
- Individual contributor in ESS/MSS practice
- Experience in Access Management, Endpoint Security, Proxy
- Firewall and Vulnerability Assessments
- Performing Vulnerability scan's and implementing patches for Desktops and Servers
- Troubleshooting Endpoint Security and Firewall related issues
- Managing the policies and compliance
- Performing URL filtering in the Proxy
- Identity and Access Management for the enterprise user accounts and groups
- Coordinating with the External Auditors during Risk Assessments and ISO 27001 Audits
Technical Analyst
Aviva 24
03.2007 - 07.2008
- Performing User Access Management
- Managing Norwich Union Enterprise user accounts, groups and Policies in Directory Information Service
- Citrix portal and Mainframe
- Managing, File, User and System Policies
Education
BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) -
Bharathiar University
01.2000 - 04.2003
MCA (Master of Computer Application) - undefined
Bharathiar University
01.2003 - 04.2006
Skills
Incident Response
Threat Hunting
Cloud and Container Forensics
Risk Assessment
Architecture Review
Certification
CISSP
Timeline
Group Manager
L&T Technology Services
10.2023 - Current
Technology Security Manager
Accenture
06.2022 - 10.2023
Security Consulting Associate Manager
Accenture
05.2019 - 05.2022
Tech Lead
Ericsson
11.2015 - 05.2019
Enterprise IT Security Analyst
Unisys
06.2014 - 11.2015
Technical Account Manager aka Remote Product Specialist
Symantec
06.2011 - 05.2014
Systems Engineer
Wipro Technolgies
07.2008 - 06.2011
Technical Analyst
Aviva 24
03.2007 - 07.2008
MCA (Master of Computer Application) - undefined
Bharathiar University
01.2003 - 04.2006
BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) -
Bharathiar University
01.2000 - 04.2003