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PRITHIVI MC

Chennai

Summary

Cybersecurity Analyst with over 3 years of experience in SOC monitoring, SIEM log analysis, and incident response. Expertise in security tools including IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, and Splunk. Skilled in phishing analysis, malware investigation, and rule tuning, utilizing frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and ISO 27001. Committed to enhancing organizational resilience and effectively mitigating emerging threats.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SOC Analyst

Lancesoft Engineering Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
09.2021 - 06.2025
  • Monitored and triaged security incidents using SIEM platforms (QRadar, Sentinel, Splunk).
  • Conducted phishing investigations, endpoint telemetry reviews, and threat intelligence correlation for real-time alerts.
  • Managed 24/7 SOC operations, which include detection, tracking, and analyzing incidents, generating daily, weekly, and monthly reports, preparing them in the proper format, sharing them with customers with proper resolution and actions taken, and also notifying them of log stoppage.
  • Analyze threats by taking the events from firewalls, endpoints, servers, IDS/IPS, etc. And identify a false positive and a true positive.
  • Contacting the customers directly in case of high-priority incidents, and helping the customer in the process of mitigating the attacks.

Education

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

Swansea University
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
07-2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

SMK Fomra Institute of Technology
Kelambakkam, Chennai
05-2021

Skills

  • SIEM: QRadar, Sentinel, and Splunk
  • Endpoint security: CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender
  • Threat intelligence: ThreatConnect, OSINT (VirusTotal, IBM X-Force, URL World, Cyber Garden)
  • Email security: MS 365 Defender, Perception Point, X-ray
  • Ticket system: ServiceNow, Fresh Service ITSM
  • Firewalls: Palo Alto and Fortinet
  • Networking fundamentals: OSI and TCP/IP models, IP addressing and subnetting, routing and switching, NAT, DNS, DHCP, VPN, firewalls, and IDS/IPS

Affiliations

SIEM rule optimization and false positive reduction

  • Assisted in fine-tuning and adjusting threshold logic for trigger policies
  • Reduced false positives by 30%, improving SOC efficiency and analyst response time
  • Collaborated with L2 and L3 to maintain correlation rule accuracy and improve alert context

Threat intelligence collection and enrichment

  • Enriched IOC's for internal use and sharing with clients
  • Shared intelligence across stakeholders, and mapped threats to the MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Customized feed ingestion and intelligence reports based on stakeholder needs

Certification

  • Foundations of operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK v13 certificate - ATT&CK IQ
  • Ethical Hacking Essentials - EC-Council
  • Endpoint security - Cisco
  • Azure Sentinel - Udemy
  • Foundation level threat intelligence analyst - arcX

Timeline

SOC Analyst

Lancesoft Engineering Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - 06.2025

Master of Science - Cybersecurity

Swansea University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

SMK Fomra Institute of Technology
PRITHIVI MC