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VARAD MARATHE

PUNE

Summary

2+ years of experience as SOC Analyst, adept in SIEM, SOAR, and EDR technologies, with a proven track record of enhancing Managed Detection and Response for 150+ global clients. Achieving a 98% SLA success rate. Skilled in collaboration and advanced analysis, significantly reducing false positives and improving client satisfaction.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SOC Analyst - Incident Handler

SecurityHQ
Pune
11.2022 - Current
  • Proactively hunting for potential malicious activity and incidents across multiple customers using advanced threat network and host-based tools.
  • Proficient in tools: SIEM - IBM QRadar and Azure Sentinel, SOAR - IBM Resilient, EDR and XDR tools: Falcon CrowdStrike, BitDefender, SentinelOne, TrendMicro, Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoint, NDR - Darktrace, Email Security - Mimecast, Antigena Darktrace Email.
  • Contributed to a team with 150+ analysts to monitor 150+ clients across the globe with 900+ use cases in the MDR (Managed Detection and Response) environment.
  • Finetuning of use cases to reduce false positive alerts.
  • Handled incidents escalated by 30+ analysts daily to add more investigation by performing advanced analysis. Helped to manage SLA successfully by 98% for Major, Minor, and Informational Severity Incidents.
  • Performed email analysis provided with the email sample file by the clients. Performed the Incident Response process on various alerts, such as email, malware, network scanning, privilege escalation, audit and compliance, authentication, and brute force.

Application and Sales Engineer

PMP Automation Pvt. Ltd
Pune
05.2021 - 05.2022

Installed more than 150 VFDs through online technical support.

Technical support for Delta PLC, HMI, Servo, Panasonic Servo, and Cermate HMI.

Provided ongoing sales support to improve customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Solved customer problems and resolved conflicts to maintain high satisfaction and product loyalty.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Telecommunication

M.M.C.O.E
Pune, India
05-2020

Skills

  • SIEM - IBM QRadar and Azure Sentinel
  • Email Security: Mimecast and Antigena Darktrace Email
  • SOAR - IBM Resilient
  • EDR, XDR, NDR - CrowdStrike, BitDefender, SentinelOne, Microsoft O365 Defender for Endpoint, Darktrace, Cortex Palo Alto, TrendMicro
  • Incident handling, Incident Response, Threat Hunting
  • MITRE ATT&CK Framework and Cyber Kill Chain
  • Log Analysis

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified : Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC200) - Credential ID : 3997C678A3E400A5

Certificate number : 0230F6-5V7DBE

  • CISEH : Certified Information Security and Ethical Hacker

Timeline

SOC Analyst - Incident Handler

SecurityHQ
11.2022 - Current

Application and Sales Engineer

PMP Automation Pvt. Ltd
05.2021 - 05.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Telecommunication

M.M.C.O.E
VARAD MARATHE