Sai Venkat Y
Hyderabad
Summary
Proven Associate Security Analyst from Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd, adept in enhancing security postures through meticulous SIEM tool analysis and effective incident response. Demonstrates strong teamwork and problem-solving skills, significantly improving system resilience. Expert in Splunk, IBM Qradar, and proactive in cybersecurity threat mitigation.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Security Analyst
Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd
12.2021 - Current
- Monitored SOC events in a 24x7 Security Operation Center.
- Generated detailed metrics on logging sources, log collection rates, and server performance.
- Knowledgeable in various security protocols including IDS/IPS, SIEM, and TCP/IP.
- Reported identified incidents to relevant teams, ensuring timely and accurate escalation within defined SLA parameters.
- Escalated unresolved incidents upon breach of SLA thresholds.
- Conducted regular health checks of the SIEM tool, addressing issues to maintain optimal performance and functionality.
- Analyzed events and alerts from EDR tools to identify potential threats.
- Collaborated with senior SOC Analysts to manage incident workflows.
- Facilitated incident resolution through collaboration with external teams.
- Prepared and maintained comprehensive documentation, including incident reports and MIS reports, to track performance metrics and incident trends.
- Identified and resolved security and risk issues with pragmatic solutions.
- Monitored, analyzed and identified security alerts from approved devices.
- Executed system patching and conducted in-depth log analysis.
- Implement suggested hardware and software security patches.
- Conducted thorough analysis of device logs based on application.
- Communicated issue status updates within agreed SLAs, maintaining shared understanding until resolved.
- Eagerly engaged in learning innovative technologies
- Monitored security access logs and analyzed system events for suspicious activity.
- Analyzed web traffic logs to detect anomalies or malicious activities.
- Monitored alerts generated by intrusion detection systems to identify potential attacks against corporate networks.
- Identified potential security risks, vulnerabilities and threats to the organization's systems and networks.
- Conducted vulnerability scans of corporate networks to identify weaknesses in the system.
- Provided technical support on security related issues and assisted users in resolving them.
- Investigated reported information security incidents by analyzing log files, conducting interviews with involved personnel.
- Participated in regular meetings with internal stakeholders to discuss current security trends, identified risk areas and proposed solutions.
- Coordinated with external vendors regarding implementation of new technology or upgrades related to cyber-security initiatives.
- Updated existing documentation such as disaster recovery plans, incident response plans.
- Responded quickly to emerging threats through patching of vulnerable systems or updating firewall rulesets.
- Coordinated security updates to avoid outages and downtime.
- Learned about latest security threats from blogs and online publications.
- Worked closely with fellow security personnel to remedy and alleviate technology issues.
Education
B Tech - ECE
Bharath University
01.2020
Intermediate -
Narayana Jr College
01.2016
State Secondary Education -
Sri Chaitanya
01.2014
Skills
- SIEM Tool: Splunk, IBM Qrader, Azure sentinal
- Antivirus: McAfee
- Firewall: PALOALTO, Check point
- Vulnerability Scanning and Management: Qualys
- EDR tools: Crowdstrike,TrendMicro
- Ticketing Tools: ServiceNow,JIRA
- DLP tools: Forcepoint
- OS: Windows server 2012/windows 8/Unix
- Cyber and Technical Threat Analyses
- Log Analysis: Reviewing logs from systems, firewalls, and security devices to identify threats
- Incident Response: Investigating, containing, and resolving security incidents
- Networking protocols: TCP/IP/UDP
- Cloud (Azure/AWS)
- Regulatory Frameworks: Knowledge of GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST frameworks
- Network Security: Understanding firewalls, proxies, IDS/IPS, and packet analysis
- Malware Analysis: Analyzing malicious files and identifying behaviors
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above furnished details are fully true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Technicalskills
Security Operation Center, Splunk, IBM Qradar, HP Arcsight, McAfee, PALOALTO, Check point, Phishing Email Analysis, Spam Mails, Crowdstrike, ServiceNow, JIRA, Windows – XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, UNIX, All networking protocols (Primarily TCP/IP), firewalls, VPN, IDS, IPS, proxies
Timeline
Associate Security Analyst
Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd
12.2021 - Current
B Tech - ECE
Bharath University
Intermediate -
Narayana Jr College
State Secondary Education -
Sri Chaitanya
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