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Kaarthikeyan Mani

Chennai

Summary

Cybersecurity professional with 3.5 years of experience, intend to impart my knowledge and skills gained from my academic and professional experience to the best in the challenging environment. Seeking an opportunity to enhance my knowledge to achieve success in my life through organizations growth.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Executive - Cyber Secuirty Analyst

CitiusTech Healthcare Technology Private
04.2024 - Current
  • Monitor and analyze cyber security events in real-time on various systems such as IDS/IPS, SIEM.
  • Reduced false alarms by fine-tuning Use case / rules.
  • Onboarding new log sources into the SIEM tool.
  • Perform Health checkups and ensure the platform is working as expected.
  • Internal and external vulnerability assessment will be performed for critical infrastructure devices.
  • Collaborated with IT teams to remediate vulnerabilities discovered during assessments, strengthening overall security posture.
  • Performing admin activities like taking log backups, onboarding new users in the tool and providing access to them.
  • Prepare MIS report, dashboards, and compliance based reports for Senior Management.

Executive • SOC Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
11.2021 - 03.2024
  • Monitor cyber security events in real-time on SIEM, Event Analysis, and Investigating and mitigation
  • Working on incidents, and reviewing the alerts, and do detailed analysis on alerts
  • Monitor EDR detections/ alerts and manage quarantined file
  • Detect and respond to security incidents, coordinate with cross-functional teams to mitigate, and eradicate threat
  • Integration of Log Sources (Windows Servers, Domain Controllers, Firewalls)
  • Admin activities like taking log backups, onboarding new users in the tool and providing access to them, performing daily health checkup of the SIEM tool and, Trouble shooting when Service is down
  • Perform internal and external vulnerability assessment for critical infrastructure devices
  • Conducted ISO 27001 based audit for internal projects and support groups
  • Prepare MIS report, dashboards, and compliance based reports for Senior Management
  • Reviewing and approving BCP and DPIA/ ROPA for IT, BPS projects and SupportFunctions

GSOC Analyst

Altran Technologies
02.2021 - 08.2021
  • Identified and evaluated potential threats and vulnerabilities
  • Trained in Palo Alto – Cortex XDR
  • Worked on incidents, and reviewing the alerts, and do detailed analysis on alerts
  • Hands on experience on the Incident Response activities like Phishing Analysis, URL defence alert, and Imposter alert
  • Assess risk and provide recommendations for improving security posture actively
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT ENGINEER INTERN •

BSNL
06.2018 - 08.2018
  • Responsible for setting up, developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining computer networks within an organization or between organizations
  • Handling Fiber splicing, Broadband modem configuration, DSLAN cord installation and configuration

ASSISTANT SYSTEM ENGINEER TRAINEE

TechSoft
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • Worked closely with customers, internal staff, and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementing, and integration of projects
  • Monitored, tracked, and prioritized new security support requests at Help Desk within set response times
  • Configured security settings and granted system access to groups and individuals

Education

M.Sc - Information Security

Royal University of London
Egham
12.2019

B.E - ECE

Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology
Chennai
05.2017

Skills

  • IBM Qradar
  • Tenable Nessus
  • LogRhythm
  • Qualys VMDR
  • Palo Alto – Cortex XDR
  • EDR - Crowd strike falcon
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Report Preparation

Certification

LogRhythm 305 Analyst

Timeline

Senior Executive - Cyber Secuirty Analyst

CitiusTech Healthcare Technology Private
04.2024 - Current

Executive • SOC Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
11.2021 - 03.2024

GSOC Analyst

Altran Technologies
02.2021 - 08.2021

NETWORK MANAGEMENT ENGINEER INTERN •

BSNL
06.2018 - 08.2018

ASSISTANT SYSTEM ENGINEER TRAINEE

TechSoft
01.2018 - 06.2018

M.Sc - Information Security

Royal University of London

B.E - ECE

Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology

LogRhythm 305 Analyst

Kaarthikeyan Mani