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Vivek Dayal

Cyber Security Analyst
Mumbai

Summary

Seasoned Cybersecurity Manager with 8+ years of progressive experience in Security Operations, GRC, and Incident Response functions. Certified in CISSP, CISM, and CISA, with deep expertise in implementing enterprise-wide security programs. Proven track record in reducing cyber risks, enhancing threat detection and response, and driving robust cybersecurity awareness across large user bases. Combines strong techno-managerial leadership with business-aligned security strategy to deliver measurable outcomes.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6041
6041
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

DEPUTY MANAGER

STATE BANK OF INDIA
09.2024 - Current
  • Led a 41-member cybersecurity team across SOC, GRC, and Incident Response functions, achieving a 35% improvement in MTTR (Mean Time to Respond) through automation, SOP standardization, and 24x7 shift coverage implementation.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end incident management lifecycle, including threat intelligence integration, forensic investigations, and executive reporting, resulting in zero major breaches over 3 consecutive years.
  • Established and monitored key cybersecurity KPIs/KRAs, such as phishing simulation success rate, and vendor risk scoring; drove executive dashboards for CXO visibility
  • Led cybersecurity awareness and phishing resilience programs across 12,000+ employees and third-party staff, improving phishing simulation pass rates significantly and minimizing social engineering incidents.

ASSISTANT MANAGER

STATE BANK OF INDIA
07.2021 - 09.2024
  • Acting primary point for managing analysis and investigations performed.
  • Integral part of IDRBT drill conducted by RBI for financial organizations and providing artifacts for RBI audit.
  • Performing qualitative and quantitative analysis to fine tune security use cases.
  • Creating report, dashboards and analysis of P1 incidents for internal SOC reviews.

ASSISTANT MANAGER

DELOITTE TTILLP
03.2021 - 07.2021
  • Acted shift lead along with guiding L1 L2 analysts.
  • Creation and fine-tuning of Use cases and Reports.
  • Designing architecture documents for SIEM deployment for various MSSP clients.

INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST

FIDELITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS (FIS)
08.2019 - 03.2021
  • Performing quality incident reviews for L1 analysts and identifying training gaps.
  • Performing thorough investigations over analysis submitted by L1 analyst utilizing EDR and other tools.
  • Performing phishing investigations for both regular and critical users in organization.
  • Design periodic dashboards pertaining to incidents for providing insights in organization.

SYSTEM ENGINEER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
03.2017 - 08.2019
  • Worked with 3 different critical clients during the tenure.
  • Performed integration of various devices with SIEM tool.
  • Raising cases with OEM regarding platform issues.
  • Performed upgradation of tool and addition of hardware.
  • Awarded on the spot award for successfully identifying a credential stealer during phishing Investigation.

Education

B.TECH - Information Technology

GOVT. ENGINEERING COLLEGE AJMER
08-2016

HIGHER SECONDARY - PCM

ST. ANSELMS SR. SEC. SCHOOL
04-2012

SENIOR SECONDARY -

ALL SAINTS SR. SEC. SCHOOL
04-2010

Skills

    SIEM

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Activities

  • Integral resource for IDRBT drills with successfully identifying all the attacks consecutively for past drills.
  • Working with different teams to identify optimized deployment architecture for SIEM solution.
  • Mentoring analysts to make them aware about SIEM technology, threat hunting and correlated investigations.
  • Acted as primary point of incident responder to Revil Ransomware for one of India's top steel manufacturing client.
  • Identified successful spear phishing attempts.
  • Leading standup calls.
  • Identified screensaver created by freeware screen saver software, 'ScreensaverWonder' leading to Authentication Bypass and opening chrome browser directly.

Certification

CISA, 232067229

Tools

SIEM TOOLS:

  • Splunk
  • QRadar
  • Arcsight


EDR TOOLS:

  • CrowdStrike
  • FireEye HX
  • Windows defender


SOAR:

  • Cortex XSOAR
  • Cyware Orchestrate


FORENSIC TOOLS:

  • Encase
  • Volatility
  • FireEye HX

Timeline

DEPUTY MANAGER

STATE BANK OF INDIA
09.2024 - Current

ASSISTANT MANAGER

STATE BANK OF INDIA
07.2021 - 09.2024

ASSISTANT MANAGER

DELOITTE TTILLP
03.2021 - 07.2021

INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST

FIDELITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS (FIS)
08.2019 - 03.2021

SYSTEM ENGINEER

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
03.2017 - 08.2019

B.TECH - Information Technology

GOVT. ENGINEERING COLLEGE AJMER

HIGHER SECONDARY - PCM

ST. ANSELMS SR. SEC. SCHOOL

SENIOR SECONDARY -

ALL SAINTS SR. SEC. SCHOOL
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