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Vibhakar Gupta

Vibhakar Gupta

Bangalore

Summary

A proactive Cybersecurity professional is responsible for identifying and mitigating potential cyber threats in an organization and has 3 plus years of experience in incident response as a SOC Analyst. Expertise in investigation methods via SIEM and other detection and response tools. Also has proven hands-on experience in building use cases, performing alert automation, threat hunting, vulnerability assessments, threat intel management, and handling triage for security incidents.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
Bangalore
06.2021 - Current
  • Leading the analysis and investigation of information security events (IDS, IPS, DLP, SIEM, NDR, EDR, XDR, CSPM, CWP) in a SOC environment to detect, verify, and respond swiftly to cyber threats, and remove false positives.
  • Responsible for investigating incidents, analyzing attack methods, researching new defense techniques and tools, developing security policy, and documenting procedures for the SOC.
  • Serving as a technical escalation point and mentoring for L1 security analysts.
  • Working with the SOAR team, and also creating playbooks for alert automation via SOAR tools.
  • Building use cases, and writing detection queries and rules.
  • Maintaining baselines for secure configuration and operations.
  • Malware analysis, and other attack analyses, to extract indicators of compromise.
  • Performing proactive threat hunting and managing threat intelligence via CTI tools and other OSINT platforms.
  • Preparing reports, summaries, and other forms of communication that may be internal or client-facing. This includes the weekly and monthly security reports for clients.
  • Fine-tuning alerts to reduce false positives.
  • Maintaining familiarity with industry trends and security best practices.
  • Ensuring compliance with SLA, process adherence, and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

College of Engineering Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
08-2021

Skills

  • SIEM: Azure Sentinel, LogRhythm, Sumologic
  • NDR: Darktrace, Forti NDR, Vectra AI
  • EDR: CrowdStrike
  • XDR: Cortex XDR, Microsoft Defender
  • Email Security: Proofpoint, O365, Exchange
  • CASB / DLP: MVISION SkyHigh, Proofpoint CASB
  • Web Application Security: Imperva, Cloudflare
  • SOAR Automation: Siemplify, also known as Chronicle SOAR, ForiSOAR
  • Cloud Security, CSPM, CWP: PRISMA Cloud
  • Threat hunting
  • Incident response management
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Threat Intel Management
  • Custom detection rule
  • Malware analysis
  • SOAR: Siemplify, AKA Chronicle SOAR, and FortiSOAR
  • IT Ticketing Tool: ServiceNow

Accomplishments

  • INSTA AWARD from COO, Infrastructure Management Services and Security in FY22.
  • DISTINCT CONTRIBUTOR award from CPO in Q3, FY23.
  • Innovation / Technology Team Award from CPO for setting the benchmark in innovation, technical improvement, teamwork, and excellence in Q3, FY23.

Certification

  • INSTA AWARD from COO, Infrastructure Management Services and Security in FY22.
  • DISTINCT CONTRIBUTOR award from CPO in Q3, FY23.
  • Innovation / Technology Team Award from CPO for setting the benchmark in innovation, technical improvement, teamwork, and excellence in Q3, FY23.

Timeline

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies
06.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

College of Engineering Bhubaneswar
Vibhakar Gupta