Shashikant Ashok
Bhalki
Summary
Information Security professional seeking a career position within an organization, where my professional experience, education and abilities would be an advantage for the growth of employer and myself.
6+ Years’ Experience as SOC Analyst. Good exposure in Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Splunk. Experience in Email Security. Crow strike-EDR- Implementation, Installation, and troubleshooting. Experience in Service Now. Good experience in handling Incidents, Requests. Experience in Log Analysis & Monitoring. Sound Experience in generating Daily, Weekly & Monthly Reports. Participating in weekly review meetings. Good communication, problem solving skills and the ability to acquire new skills in a timely manner.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
SOC Analyst
MVW Technology
01.2023 - 09.2024
- Monitoring Our Security tools (Azure Sentinel, Proofpoint, MS Defender and O365 Security)
- Creating and enhancing the internal processes and procedures.
- Acting as a mentor to all First Level Security Analysts support and supervise them ensure knowledge transfer within the team.
- Building and continuously improving SOC analytics Team.
- Contributing to the overall performance and success of the Security Operations Centre.
- Contributing and improving Security Information and Event Management SIEM Sentinel use cases.
- Azure: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Cloud App Security, defender for identity, defender for Office365 and Defender for endpoints
- Troubleshooting the incidents and request related to email flow - Phish, Spam & Malware
- Monitoring the User Risky Sign-ins in Azure
- Experience in Anti Phishing, Anti Malware, Anti-Spam, Safe Links, Safe Attachments.
- Crowd strike (End point security) - Implementation, Installation, and troubleshooting.
- Analysing and blocking the malicious hash values.
- Releasing outbound spam emails which are blocked from Proofpoint if it’s legitimate.
- Any false positive issues raised the case vendor support team.
- Analyzing Spam/URL phishing/Spoofed emails and providing the necessary action accordingly.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all SOC activities, facilitating knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
SOC Analyst
Bank of America
08.2019 - 12.2022
- Working on Incidents tab on daily basis
- Based on priority will work on the incidents.
- Investigate the alerts by using Azure Active Directory, Azure Sign in logs, SNOW, Cortex
- XDR, Secure Works, if it is genuine activity, we will close from our end otherwise we will reach out the user and get the confirmation from the user and close the alerts.
- Experience in using KQL to get the detail information about the alerts.
- Having experience on investigation of Cortex XDR alerts.
- Working on Logs and incidents tab on daily.
- Worked on various types of alerts like Malware related, login failures.
- Analyzing Spam/URL phishing/Spoofed emails and providing the necessary action accordingly.
- Investigating File accessed, File modified, and impossible travel activity, with the help of MS Cloud App security (MCAS).
- Troubleshooting the incidents and request related to email flow - Phish, Spam & Malware
- Monitoring the User Risky Sign-ins in Azure
- Experience in Anti Phishing, Anti Malware, Anti-Spam, Safe Links, Safe Attachments.
- Crowd strike (End point security) - Implementation, Installation, and troubleshooting.
- Analysing and blocking the malicious hash values.
- Releasing outbound spam emails which are blocked from Proofpoint if it’s legitimate.
- Any false positive issues raised the case vendor support team.
- Analyzing Spam/URL phishing/Spoofed emails and providing the necessary action accordingly.
- Maintained accurate documentation of all SOC activities, facilitating knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Collaborated with IT teams to implement effective security measures, safeguarding critical data and systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Karnataka University
Dharwad, India05.2019
Skills
- Vulnerability Assessment
- SIEM management
- Threat Intelligence
- Wireshark software
- Proofpoint (Email Security)
- O365 (Security & Compliance)
- Zscaler (Web Security)
- SIEM- Azure Sentinel, Splunk
- Rapid7 Nexpose (Vulnerability Assessment)
Languages
English, Hindi, Bengali & Kannada
certificates
- SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (01/2024)
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that; the above information is true as far as my knowledge is concern.
Timeline
SOC Analyst
MVW Technology
01.2023 - 09.2024
SOC Analyst
Bank of America
08.2019 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science -
Karnataka University
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