SRIRAMACHAKKARAVARTHI D
Advisory consultant
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic security professional with over 13 years of specialized experience in endpoint and network security solutions. Expertise in deploying, managing, and optimizing a wide range of security products, complemented by a solid foundation in emerging technologies. Proven ability to analyze complex security challenges and implement innovative, effective solutions that enhance organizational resilience. Committed to contributing to a forward-thinking organization that prioritizes technical excellence, analytical acumen, and ongoing professional development.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Advisory Consultant
IBM
07.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: IBM is an American multinational technology company that provides hardware, software, cloud-based services, and cognitive computing.
- Projects in IBM: JLL, CLS
- Monitored and analyzed daily DLP incidents to identify potential data exfiltration attempts and ensure compliance with organizational policies.
- Created and fine-tuned DLP policies and rules to detect sensitive data such as PII, PCI, and confidential business information.
- Investigated and escalated high-severity DLP alerts to the security operations team for further action.
- Prepared and maintained daily/weekly DLP incident reports for management review.
- Coordinated with business units to validate DLP incidents and reduce false positives by optimizing policy configurations.
- Monitored Forcepoint proxy logs and real-time traffic to identify suspicious user activities, malware downloads, and policy violations.
- Managed and updated proxy URL filtering categories, access policies, and custom block/allow lists.
- Troubleshot user connectivity issues related to proxy authentication, SSL inspection, and web filtering.
- Applied daily security updates, certificate management, and configuration backups to ensure proxy reliability.
- Generated daily usage and threat reports to provide insights into web traffic trends and security posture.
Network Administrator
TCS
10.2021 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: Tata Consultancy Services is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company.
- Project in TCS: Agilent technologies
- In TCS, I have been working as a Network administrator and performing the operational activities like troubleshooting the VPN issues, building up the IPSec tunnels & configuring ACL rules, upgrading the Palo Alto Firewall devices.
- Tata Consultancy Services is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company.
- Products in Scope: Palo Alto Firewall (all the models), Panorama, Cisco ISE.
Senior Administrator
Wipro Technologies
01.2019 - 10.2021
- Company Overview: Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company.
- Project : Japan Tobacco International (JTI)
- Japan Tobacco International is the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco, a leading international tobacco product manufacturer. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and sells its brands in 120 countries.
- In JTI, I have been handling more Trend Micro products & Symantec products which are: Officescan, Apex one, Deep Security, Control Manager, Apex central, ServerProtect for NetApp, EMC, Trend Micro Hosted Email Security, Aloha load balancer, Palo alto firewall.
- Wipro Technologies is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company.
- Received 'STAR PERFORMER' of the quarter within the short period in this project.
Security Specialist
HCL Technologies
10.2018 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: HCL Technologies is a multinational IT services and consulting company headquartered in Noida, India.
- Project : The Home Depot
- The Home Depot is an American home improvement supplies retailing company that sells tools, construction products, and services. The company is headquartered Atlanta Store Support Center in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia.
- Totally we are managing 2 lakhs machines in count, which includes Windows, Linux, Mac, AIX platforms. We are providing support to the below mentioned products as of now.
- HCL Technologies is a multinational IT services and consulting company headquartered in Noida, India.
- Performed Projects: Trellix ePO 5.9.1, VSE P11, ENS 10.5, HIPS 8.0, McAfee web gateway.
Associate Technical Support Engineer
Raksha Technologies
09.2012 - 05.2016
- Implementation of Trend Micro office scan endpoint protection for 25,000 users globally, at the main site Education First at Bangalore.
- Implemented McAfee endpoint security, DLP, Encryption at Star Vijay media pvt ltd at Chennai.
- Implemented Symantec Endpoint protection Manager 12.4 and implemented the clients and policies in the Iskcon temple, Bangalore.
- Implemented Trend Micro officescan endpoint protection at HCL Technologies at Sholinganallur, Chennai.
- Implemented and configured Portwise Authentication Manager at M/s Rane, Chennai.
- Implementing and troubleshooting of Winmagic's full drive encryption at Shriram Values Services, LVB Bank.
- Implemented and configured McAfee DLP, Endpoint security, files & folder encryption at OEN India Pvt ltd, Kerala.
- Troubleshooting and supporting Citrix thin client at IIT Madras.
- Implemented Trend Micro endpoint security at Anna university, Chennai.
Education
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
C.S.I College of Engineering
Ooty 01.2008 - 01.2012
Diploma - CSE
I.R.T Polytechnic College
Chennai 01.2007 - 01.2009
SSLC -
P.A.C.M Hr Sec. School
Rajapalayam 01.2005 - 01.2006
Skills
Endpoint security management
Data security management
Network security management
DLP implementation and encryption strategies
Threat detection proficiency
Palo Alto firewall management
Cloud security management (AWS)
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
AWS certified- Security speciality
06-2025
Network Administrator
TCS
10.2021 - 07.2022
Advisory Consultant
IBM
07.2021 - Current
Senior Administrator
Wipro Technologies
01.2019 - 10.2021
Security Specialist
HCL Technologies
10.2018 - 01.2019
Associate Technical Support Engineer
Raksha Technologies
09.2012 - 05.2016
B.E - Computer Science and Engineering
C.S.I College of Engineering
01.2008 - 01.2012
Diploma - CSE
I.R.T Polytechnic College
01.2007 - 01.2009
SSLC -
P.A.C.M Hr Sec. School
01.2005 - 01.2006
Languages
English
Tamil
Roles And Responsibilities
- Planning and architecting the implementation design for the Forcepoint FSM manager and DLP servers.
- Implementing FSM, DLP servers, Crawlers, FSAM, Web Gateways.
- Implementing and fine-tuning security policies, App-ID, User-ID, and Content-ID to enforce zero-trust principles and reduce the attack surface.
- Maintaining Master database for the Forcepoint Proxies and maintaining configurations.
- Scrutinizing the policy assignment rules for improving DLP detection and capabilities.
- Preparing weekly presentation report and projecting it the customer as well as involving in document works like Runbook, SMTD document etc.
- Performing new implementation projects in Trend Micro office scan and Symantec.
Fields Of Interest
- Genarative AI
- Pen-testing
- Firewalls (Palo Alto, CheckPoint)
- Antivirus, DLP & Encryption
- Networking Security
- Linux platforms
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mr. Dharmaraj
- Date of Birth: 08/10/90
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Acknowledgement
I hereby declare that all the information which are given above by me are true to the best of my knowledge.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Planning and architecting the implementation design for the Forcepoint FSM manager and DLP servers.
- Implementing FSM, DLP servers, Crawlers, FSAM, Web Gateways.
- Implementing and fine-tuning security policies, App-ID, User-ID, and Content-ID to enforce zero-trust principles and reduce the attack surface.
- Maintaining Master database for the Forcepoint Proxies and maintaining configurations.
- Scrutinizing the policy assignment rules for improving DLP detection and capabilities.
- Preparing weekly presentation report and projecting it the customer as well as involving in document works like Runbook, SMTD document etc.
- Performing new implementation projects in Trend Micro office scan and Symantec.
Fields Of Interest
- Generative AI
- Firewalls (Palo Alto, CheckPoint)
- EDR, DLP & Encryption
- Networking Security
- Cloud security
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mr. Dharmaraj
- Date of Birth: 08/10/90
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married