Rachana Kumari
Summary
Experienced Cyber Security Engineer determined to be a top performer by maintaining cutting edge skills and the latest industry knowledge.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4035
4035
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior SOC Engineer
YEXT India Pvt. Ltd
06.2024 - Current
- Served as a subject matter expert in incident response, providing guidance and support to other departments seeking assistance in managing security incidents.
- Mitigated the risk of data breaches by establishing strict access controls and encryption mechanisms.
- Collaborated with IT department to ensure seamless integration of security systems with existing infrastructure.
- Raised employee awareness on cybersecurity best practices through comprehensive training programs and workshops.
- Worked with teams to develop company-wide information assurance, security standards and procedures.
- Coordinated with third-party security information and event management (SIEM) providers to maintain protections and predict threats.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd
11.2021 - 05.2024
- Working as a Shift-lead ensuring smooth operation of Shift as well as to translated strategy into solutions and operating models by leading or managing others.
- Working for Automation team helping develop playbooks so as to automate analyst task.
- Triage daily queue of alerts from sources such as FireEye, Splunk logs, Active Directory, Proofpoint, Firewalls, MDE etc.
- Investigating alerts for potential malicious activity as well as potential DLP issues within company.
- Developed security metrics and technical analysis to give insight into performance and trends.
- Authored security and vulnerability reports, detailing logged incursions and suggesting remediation efforts.
- Engaging with business and technology stakeholders to gather goals and requirements.
- Liaising with third parties to respond to security events and understand threat landscape.
- Investigate possible network attacks such as DDOS, DOS, DNS attacks, and server exploitations.
- Training of new hires and employee training to harden personnel against attacks such as phishing, ransomware and more.
IT Security Engineer
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 10.2021
- Part of core team for setting up of Security Operation Centre and Incident Response team.
- Assisted with the development of processes and Procedures to improve MTTA and MTTR, analysis of Incidents and overall Security Operation Centre functions.
- Investigating and Protecting company assets and users with effective monitoring of security threat on network and endpoints.
- Practical insight of creating rules, dashboards, filters, reports etc in Splunk to track incidents.
- Took escalations from less experienced engineers and handled highest impacting incidents.
- Worked with business partners to balance requirements, security and risk reduction.
- Created policies and procedures for emerging security technologies and proposals.
Interim Intern
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 06.2018
- 6 month Intern, working and learning various tools and technologies used in organization used in organizations for endpoint Security.
- Splunk-Carbon Black maintenance work to optimize and reduce false positives.
- Email posture change using header details.
- Prepared project presentations and reports to assist senior staff.
Education
Mater of Technology - Information Security And Cyber Forensics
SRM University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
Skills
External and Internal Threat monitoring
Certification
Anomaly Detection in Blockchain Network using Clustering Algorithm Author(s): RACHANA KUMARI, MONICA CATHERINE Date: July 26, 2018
Tools
EDR Tools: Carbon Black, MDE and Crowd Strike
SIEM Tools: Splunk and Hunters
SOAR Tools: Phantom-Splunk
Scripting Tools: Python and Java Script
Other Tools: GitHub, YARA, SIGMA and Jira-confluence
CI/CD Tools: Teamcity
Cloud Technologies: AWS
Operating Systems: Windows and Linux
Timeline
Senior SOC Engineer
YEXT India Pvt. Ltd
06.2024 - Current
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd
11.2021 - 05.2024
IT Security Engineer
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 10.2021
Interim Intern
Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2018 - 06.2018
Mater of Technology - Information Security And Cyber Forensics
SRM University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Gujarat Technological University
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