Abhay Pal Chauhan, Senior Technical Officer

Abhay Pal Chauhan

Senior Technical Officer

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Location
India - Delhi
Education
Higher diploma, Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Security
Experience
10 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 11 Months

Senior Technical Officer at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • India - Delhi
  • July 2015 to November 2017

Currently posted in Warehousing Development Regulatory Authority (WDRA) handling responsibility of an Information Security Officer. Also working as a Team lead to secure the Portal application, Servers (on cloud) and network devices of WDRA. Formulated and implemented Information security and Management System (ISMS framework) for WDRA by defining the scope, formulating and implementing policies, procedures and guidelines.

Provided consultancy to IGDTU to setup a secure IT infrastructure & Datacenter in IGDTU and to setup and start a Cyber Security & Forensic Course for Delhi Police in IGDTU

E.S.I.C.: Studied the ESIC environment and submitted a report to mitigate the challenges faced in I.T. using latest technologies. Also done Risk Assessment in ESIC IT Infrastructure and Data Center and audited the ISMS implementation and prepared a report for suggested improvements.

In the year 2015 worked in CDAC Noida Datacenter and implemented ISO 27001:2013 and verified the implementation, performed Risk assessment and measured and followed Information Security KPIs. Also worked as a team lead of 8 team members of Cyber Security & Incident Handling team securing an infrastructure of 400+ logical servers. Prepared Technical documents as a Member of Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) and also part of Vendor management committee.

Technical Officer at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • India - Delhi
  • October 2011 to July 2015

Worked in CDAC Datacenter as a team lead of ISO team in the year 2012 and verified the implementation of defined Process & Procedures for the ISO 27001:2005. Worked as Team Lead of Cyber Security & Incident Handling team of 8 professional. Setup a Cyber forensic Lab for Uttrakhand Police and provided strategic and Tactical guidance for course development and training of Police officers.
Worked as Team lead of Network team (2011-2012). Provided Consultancy to DRDO Data Canter for enhanced security. Implemented IPv6 in C-DAC Centres across centres in India. Worked on the Secure Email Communication project for Government of India.
Also to make a secure IT infrastructure in CDAC Data Center using latest technologies such as TACACS+, Fortinet UTM, Syslog server, SIEM, VLANs, VPN Server, Proxy and by performing Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing on IT Infra and Patching the Infrastructure. Management of monitoring tools like Solarwinds, Nagios.

Associate Project Engineer at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • India - Delhi
  • October 2008 to October 2011

To work in ISO Team to implement ISO 27001:2005 Certification for CDAC Noida Datacenter. Implemented Cisco ASA, Cisco IPS/IDS, ISA Proxy server. To work as a Team Lead of 7 System administers. Implemented Active Directory services in CDAC Noida. Worked on other networking devices like - Routers, Switches (Layer2/3).

Intern System Administrator at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • India - Delhi
  • March 2007 to October 2008

Worked in the System Administration Team for administration and maintenances of more than 700 computers in CDAC Noida and providing support to Clients of C-DAC Noida. To manage 1000 network nodes. To do User and group administration in Windows. Also configured SAMBA, NFS, FTP and other servers.

Education

Higher diploma, Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Security
  • at IMT
  • December 2008
Higher diploma, Post graduate diploma in system & Database Administration
  • at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • March 2007
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • at Uttar Pradesh Technical University
  • July 2006

Specialties & Skills

IT Security
Security Architecture Design
Cyber Security
ISO 27001
Vulnerability Management
Cloud Security
cyber forensic
cyber security
CISCO router/firewall

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

ISACA
  • Member
  • May 2018

Training and Certifications

Certificate of Clod Security Knowledge (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018
Hurricane Electric IPv6 Newbie Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Palo Alto Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Fortinet Network Security Expert - I (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
CISSP - Certified Information System Security Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
Valid Until:
November 2020
Microsoft Certified System Engineer + Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2008
Cisco Network Academy Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco Network Academy
Date Attended:
October 2007
Duration:
100 hours