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YOGENDRA LANJE

Pune

Summary

With over 13 years of expertise in cybersecurity, specializing in areas such as malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, and project management, I bring a wealth of experience to the table. My career journey has been dedicated to safeguarding organizations against digital threats and vulnerabilities through proactive measures and strategic initiatives. I possess a deep understanding of cyber threats and trends, coupled with hands-on experience in analyzing and mitigating complex security incidents. My strong project management skills have enabled me to lead successful cybersecurity projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with organizational goals.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Technical Manager

LTIMindtree
11.2024 - Current
  • Manage and lead three concurrent threat-hunting projects, ensuring efficient execution and alignment with security objectives.
  • Continuously enhance threat detection techniques and security protocols to proactively mitigate cyber threats.
  • Analyze and interpret customer requirements, developing tailored threat-hunting strategies to meet security expectations.
  • Oversee and coordinate threat-hunting initiatives, ensuring timely completion while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Lead and mentor cross-functional security teams, including threat analysts, researchers, and security engineers, to drive investigative excellence.
  • Establish, refine, and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and best practices to improve threat-hunting efficiency.
  • Prepare and present comprehensive security reports, including Weekly Security Reports (WSR), Monthly Business Reviews (MBR), and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), to executive leadership for informed decision-making.

Technical Manager

LTIMindtree
05.2021 - 10.2024
  • Working as a Cyber Threat Research Technical Manager for Microsoft Defender Experts managed security services to the Microsoft 365 Defender Customers.
  • Managing team for proactive Threat Hunting to expose advanced threats and identify the scope of the malicious activity associated with human adversaries or hands-on-keyboard attacks.
  • Building new hypothesis to detect and prevent our MDE customer before the actual breach occurs.
  • Proactively filing EDR FNs and EPP FNs and detection bugs to enhance our product (i.e, EDR & EPP) services and taking proactive steps to stop the future threats.
  • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of detailed.
  • Proactively ramp up team performance prior to client training.
  • Give priority to and impeccably resolve client escalations within SLAs.
  • Identify, document, and implement internal processes and tools to address process gaps.
  • Provide consistent updates on virus descriptions and blogs as value-added services for clients.
  • Delivering WSR, MBR, and QBR presentations to clients, comprehending expectations, strategizing, and coordinating with the team.
  • Participating in client calls, comprehending expectations, strategizing, and communicating with the team.

Technical Lead

Mindtree
11.2017 - 04.2020
  • Managing and guiding teams in achieving goals.
  • Presenting WSR, MBR and QBR to clients, understating expectations, planning and communicating with team.
  • Attending calls with clients, understating expectations, planning, and communicating with team.
  • Kill chain Analysis and Detection various malware campaigns (Generic coverage on all levels) Creating hash and Generic Signatures Detection for PE files and Non PE files (Doc, JS, VBS, JAR, HTML, HTA, PDF etc.).
  • Ensuring successful release of signature builds to the customer.
  • Handling Customers Cases for FN, FP, and Wildcore Process.
  • Behavior based and AMSI detections.
  • Android malware analysis.
  • Collaborated effectively with stakeholders, partners and project teams to aid timely delivery against technical roadmaps.
  • Developed junior staff through targeted coaching and mentoring, improving capabilities and competencies of technical teams.
  • Responded to customer concerns quickly and effectively, minimising service disruptions.

Sr. Security Engineer

Sophos
06.2015 - 11.2017
  • Kill chain Analysis and Detection for Spammed Malware Campaign (FUR to Malware Payload).
  • Creating hash and Generic Signatures Detection for PE file and NON PE file (Doc, JS, VBS, JAR, HTML, HTA, PDF).
  • Monitoring email spam protection levels and responding to spam outbreaks in a timely manner using appropriate anti-spam detection technology available.
  • Creating and publishing Sophos Virus Definitions Update Handling Customers Cases for FN, FP and Wildcore Process.
  • IP, Domain and Email Blocking.

Malware analyst

Welserv
10.2013 - 06.2015
  • Reversing, Malicious binary analysis.
  • Olly debugger, Immunity Debugger Malicious PDF File Analysis.
  • Malicious MS Document Analysis.
  • Analysis of malicious Script files (JS,VBS).

Education

B.E. (IT) - Engineering

RTMNU
04.2010

HSC -

MAHARASHTRA
02.2005

SSC -

MAHARASHTRA
03.2003

Skills

  • Malware analysis and reverse engineering
  • Threat hunting
  • Team management
  • Strong communication and presentation abilities
  • Leadership qualities
  • Experience of creating a team from the ground up
  • Cyber security

Certification

  • Certification from Appin knowledge solutions in IT security and ethical hacking.
  • 3 months training in CMC limited on computer networking.

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Marathi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Mahadeorao B. Lanje
  • Marital status: Single

Hobbies and interests

  • Playing cricket, TT
  • Traveling and exploring new cultures
  • Singing.
  • Playing Cricket and TT.
  • Travelling and exploring new cultures.

Languages

6,C2,6,C2

Awards and Recognitions

  • Star performer of the year 2014 at Welserve
  • Multiple Master Mind awards at Mindtree
  • Crest Award Q4 FY22 at Mindtree
  • Opus Excellence Award at Mindtree 2022

Timeline

Sr. Technical Manager

LTIMindtree
11.2024 - Current

Technical Manager

LTIMindtree
05.2021 - 10.2024

Technical Lead

Mindtree
11.2017 - 04.2020

Sr. Security Engineer

Sophos
06.2015 - 11.2017

Malware analyst

Welserv
10.2013 - 06.2015

HSC -

MAHARASHTRA

SSC -

MAHARASHTRA

B.E. (IT) - Engineering

RTMNU

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