Sowmya Reddy

An cyber security developer and also ethical hacker with a strong interest in projects that require both conceptual and analytical thinking. Fully-committed to designing and developing innovative security-based materials that users will love. Always eager to learn more tricks from superiors and colleagues-regardless of the industry they're working in

• CC by ISC2
• Comptia Secuirty+
• Third-Party Risk Management Expert by OneTrust

• I have scored 80% in IASO and 93.3% in IASO which was conducted by IAAMS(Integral Association of Amateur Mathematicians and Scientists) in 2010
• I have achieved State rank “12” in CV Raman State level talent search examination conducted by Suchirindia Foundation in 2010.
• I was ranked among top 50 in 21st Inter State Competition- 2010, conducted by Ramanujan Mathematics Library.
• I have participated in 11th NCO(National Cyber Olympiad), in which I got the State rank 343.

• Okta Cleanup: Strengthen the existing security posture of Okta and to harden it further and Hardening Document which was prepared by me after careful analysis and got it implemented, once I got the approval from the respective team leads.
• Device Trust: In this project, I had to work on bringing all the applications under device trust policy and prepare a device assurance policy hardening and device trust policy document which was rolled out for the entire company and got this implemented.
• Firewall hardening: In this project, I worked on preparing a hardening checklist to improve overall security of firewalls and also got it integrated to SIEM tool as it will be easy for security team to look into the alerts triggered and check the change logs.
• Beta Testing: In this project, I worked with IT team to get the beta version of MacOs to be tested by different teams before rolling out the version across the company laptops and got the hardening document prepared and review it quarterly.
• Mobile Device Policy: In this project, I had worked on all the apps that needed to be accessed via mobile and restrict the remaining apps for customer data security and got this policy implemented via okta and rolled this policy out across the company for data security.
• NU-WiFi to increase throughput: In this project, we analyzed the problems faced by NU regarding internet and tried to solve their problems and also tried to increase the overall throughput.
• High secured Zone using different Protocols: In this project, we have designed a network module in Cisco Packet tracer using different protocols like RIP, EIGRP and BGP and then performing the attacks and also providing security.
• Port scan detection: This project gives the configuration of system to router, router to switches and also lets you to know whether any unknown person enters into the organization. We have used cisco packet tracer for that.
• medi-DROP: This was the project which makes finding of blood in emergency cases. It's mainly a user friendly website where user can easily find the donor's location.