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VEERENDRA J

Hyderabad

Summary

Security professional with over 3 years 6 months of experience specializing in the Security domain. Strong expertise in Microsoft defender, Cloud Security solutions, with hands-on experience in Microsoft Defender, and other cloud-native security tools. Proven track record in incident response. Adept at utilizing SOAR technologies. Extensive knowledge of EDR, Email Security, and Compliance.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Support Engineer

Ushta Te Consultancy Services
12.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Microsoft
  • Information Security professional with around 3.6 years of experience in Endpoint Protection.
  • Effective handling of major stake holders and partners/clients with large environments, troubleshooting and providing with best practices.
  • Experience with Endpoint security, Endpoint detection and response (EDR), Network security with the products like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Secure score.
  • Hands-on experience using tools like Windbg, Procmon (Process monitor), Windows Event viewer, Wireshark, diagnostic data for Linux.
  • Automated incident response using Microsoft 365 Defender playbooks and alert policies.
  • Monitored and analyzed threat reports, email traffic, and user-reported phishing using Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
  • Perform root cause analysis for high-severity Incidents reported within the stipulated time.
  • Work closely with the CIRT team to report, analyses, triage the high severity incidents on a timely basis.
  • Microsoft

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2021 - 12.2023
  • Company Overview: TCS
  • Security Engineer with a solid background and 2 years of experience in the Security domain.
  • I specialized in Cloud Security, with expertise in CSPM, CASB solutions, and hands-on experience in Microsoft Defender, Splunk SIEM, and other cloud-native security tools.
  • Proven skills in incident response and a comprehensive understanding of EDR, Email Security, DLP, and Compliance.
  • I am proficient in SOAR technologies, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Azure Sentinel.
  • Adept at setting up and configuring CSPM platforms for continuous security monitoring.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, ensuring effective collaboration with SOC teams.
  • Investigating malicious/suspicious patterns observed on end machines and necessary remediation measures were carried out on the impacted endpoints.
  • Actively provide suggestions and inputs for fine tuning of the use cases to avoid false positive offenses, follow up with the SIEM Administration team the users across the organization monthly, analyze and project towards its completion until implementation.
  • Monitor the user activity – hits of domains, network traffic and related events using IBM Sense in Q radar.
  • Conduct a Phishing campaign to the users across the organization monthly, analyze and project the statistics of email hits seen to the management and respective stake holders.
  • TCS

Education

B. TECH/B.E. - Civil

GIET Engineering College
Kakinada
01.2021

Skills

  • Information security
  • Incident response
  • Linux
  • Antivirus
  • EDR
  • Azure
  • M365
  • Security operations
  • Endpoint security
  • Email security
  • Endpoint
  • Log analysis
  • Sentinel - SIEM
  • CrowdStrike
  • Root cause analysis

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Telugu

Timeline

Technical Support Engineer

Ushta Te Consultancy Services
12.2023 - Current

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2021 - 12.2023

B. TECH/B.E. - Civil

GIET Engineering College
VEERENDRA J