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
Incident response management
User awareness training
Security information and event management
Threat intelligence
Endpoint protection
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