VARUN KUMAR M
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Cyber Security Analyst with over three years of experience in cloud and network security, dedicated to enhancing organizational resilience against emerging threats. Expertise in SIEM solutions and proactive threat hunting has led to significant improvements in incident response and operational efficiency. Adept at collaborating with stakeholders across diverse sectors to deliver comprehensive security support, while fostering team growth through mentorship. Committed to leveraging advanced security tools and techniques to identify vulnerabilities and implement effective mitigation strategies, ensuring robust protection of critical assets.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Platform Operation Analyst
Cyderes
Bangalore
02.2025 - Current
- Provide timely and efficient assistance to customers via various channels (phone, email, chat, or social media) by addressing their technical concerns and issues.
- Analyze and troubleshoot technical issues reported by customers, using diagnostic tools and techniques to identify problems.
- Stay updated on the company’s products, services, features, and updates to effectively address customer queries on how to use the product or service, including offering best practices, tips, and guidance to improve their experience.
- If the issue is too complex or requires a specialist's intervention, escalate the issue to the appropriate team or department (e.g., development or engineering).
Associate Security Engineer
Atos/Eviden
Bangalore
01.2022 - 02.2025
- SIEM: Analyzed alerts generated by Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender platforms, investigating potential security incidents. Ensured timely identification of true positives and raised them within the designated SLA, contributing to rapid incident response and minimizing security risks, while maintaining a high level of operational efficiency and threat mitigation.
- Monitored and analyzed daily security reports from Azure Sentinel, identifying trends, potential threats, and vulnerabilities, and ensuring prompt action to address any security incidents within defined SLAs.
- Provided guidance and support to L1s in alert analysis, helping them interpret security incidents, and escalate critical issues while fostering their growth and improving overall team efficiency.
- Proactively suggested new use cases for deployment, collaborating with leads to review and prioritize them for implementation, strengthening security monitoring and threat detection capabilities.
- Threat Hunting: Led threat-hunting initiatives in Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender platforms, combining built-in queries with custom detection methods to proactively identify security threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring continuous improvement and refinement of hunting techniques for optimal threat mitigation.
- Conducted advanced threat hunting using Microsoft Defender and Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate undetected threats and security risks. Developed and optimized custom KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries to improve the detection of threats, vulnerabilities, and suspicious activity.
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
AMC Engineering College
Bangalore01-2019
Skills
- Cloud/ Network Security (Monitoring)
- SIEM/ Security tools
- Malware, email analysis
- Threat hunting, IOC's, advisories
- Threat Intel's & Sandboxing
- Ticketing (SNOW, JIRA)
- Rule Creation/ finetuning
- Threat detection
Tools
- Microsoft Azure Sentinel
- Defender for Endpoint, Cloud, XDR, Identity, Office 365
- Proofpoint Email Gateway
- Cisco Umbrella DNS
- KQL (Kusto query Language)
- Crowdstrike EDR
- Google Chronicle
- Google Cloud Console
- Salesforce
Timeline
Platform Operation Analyst
Cyderes
02.2025 - Current
Associate Security Engineer
Atos/Eviden
01.2022 - 02.2025
Bachelors of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
AMC Engineering College
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