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REVANTH S

REVANTH S

Security Operations Analyst
Bangalore

Summary

Personal Summary I am a security analyst with over 3.5 years of experience in the field. I have worked on various projects involving incident analysis, basic malware analysis, AWS incident analysis, and AWS penetration testing (beginner level). I am passionate about learning new skills and technologies to enhance my security expertise. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve overall security posture.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Security Engineer

PowerSchool India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
2023.05 - Current
  • Daily monitoring of Splunk Alerts with a focus on prompt response and resolution.
  • Proficiently managing alerts from Crowdstrike, Palo alto, Imperva, and Extra hop, demonstrating strong expertise in incident handling.
  • Extensive experience in Cloud analysis, involving analysis of Guard duty, CloudTrial, Inspector, S3, IAM, KMS, EC2, and various other AWS services. Additionally, skilled in analyzing logs from Azure AD, O365, and Defender in Microsoft Azure.
  • Active involvement in Use Cases and Threat Hunting Projects, contributing to the enhancement of security measures.
  • Specialized in conducting thorough Phishing analysis to identify and mitigate potential threats.
  • Engaging with various organizational stakeholders to address and elevate issues, actively escalating tickets that pose security concerns and facilitating resolution.
  • Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
  • Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.

Senior Security Analyst

Netsurion Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
2020.08 - 2023.04
  • Demonstrated expertise in conducting in-depth log analysis and reporting true positive incidents to customers.
  • Proven ability to monitor alerts in real-time and escalate to customers based on established criteria.
  • Maintained strong customer engagement through regular event assessments and resolution of customer needs.
  • Adept at handling customer tickets, internal team requests, agent troubleshooting, and alert customizations.
  • Conducted comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to uncover all relevant activity related to incidents and presented findings to customers.
  • Skilled in performing both static and dynamic analysis of unknown malware, utilizing tools like Flare VM, Anyrun, Joe Sandbox, and Remnux.
  • Utilized machine learning to identify suspicious anomalies in parameters such as IPs, event systems, and ports.
  • Verified critical observation reports and provided fine-tuning for improved accuracy.
  • Worked on customer integrations including Crowdstrike, Carbon black, Palo Alto, Sonicwall, Office 365, AWS Guardduty and AWS Inspector, Barracuda, and Trend Micro.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
  • Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Cloud Computing

Jain University, Bangalore
2017.08 - 6 2020

University 2nd with overall GPA of 88%

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Dr. GRD College of Science, Coimbatore
2014.06 - 4 2017
GPA: 75%

Skills

AWS and Azure security Analysis

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Certification

Certified Ethical Hacker

Accomplishments

  • Achieved sport reward for best contribution to the company.
  • Discovered an Wocao operation exploit in one of our entertainment industry customers, who aimed to extract and sell data on the dark web. As the primary on-call, I was solely responsible for managing the critical incident during the weekend. We identified several stages of the attack, including discovery, AD enumeration, privilege escalation, defense evasion, lateral movement, command and control, and data exfiltration. Nevertheless, we successfully prevented a massive data breach and saved the customer from trouble, which is a significant accomplishment.
  • Identified and reported security vulnerabilities in customer-hosted EC2 instances, specifically open Ports 22 and 3389, impacting nearly 300 instances. Addressed and mitigated the issues.
  • Proactively detected and mitigated a Kinsing Malware attack on a customer's container, By collaborating with the team for effective resolution and security measures.
  • Discovered exposed S3 buckets in the organization's cloud environment, lacking proper ACL or bucket policies, posing a risk of unauthorised access and object retrieval from the internet.
  • Recognised overly permissive IAM user privileges, particularly for admins with access to multiple resources. Collaborated on assessing and implementing necessary access restrictions, outlining potential impacts.

Timeline

Security Engineer - PowerSchool India Pvt Ltd
2023.05 - Current
Senior Security Analyst - Netsurion Technologies Pvt Ltd
2020.08 - 2023.04
Jain University - Master of Computer Applications, Cloud Computing
2017.08 - 6 2020
Dr. GRD College of Science - Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
2014.06 - 4 2017

Certified Ethical Hacker

Python Programming

AWS Security Speciality(Udemy)

REVANTH SSecurity Operations Analyst