Irshad  Ameen, SOC Analyst(L1)

Irshad Ameen

SOC Analyst(L1)

Gulf Business Machines

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, IT
Experience
9 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 7 Months

SOC Analyst(L1) at Gulf Business Machines
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2018

 Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools like Splunk with 24x7 operations.
 The security analyst monitors security events from the various SOC entry channels (SIEM, Tickets, Email and Phone), based on the security event severity, escalate to managed service support teams, tier 2 information security team, and/or customer as appropriate to perform further investigation and resolution.
 Raising incident with concern team, respond incident and service request and bring together
 Watch Active channels and Dashboard and create annotations.
 Investigate incident with active channel/events /graphs annotations and reports
 Hands on experience in monitor events and investigate incident a daily based
 Additional information to either resolve or escalate the issue to appropriate teams.
 Generating and Investigating DLP Alerts based on data classification to USB, cloud data movement or email through Forcepoint Tool
 Handling Daily operations & troubleshooting issues of email security gateway (Trust- wave, Mimecast).
 Analysis and review of Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) through Forcepoint DLP for various channels such as Email, Removable media and web and instant response to theft or loss.
 Vulnerability assessment and reporting using Nessus and Qualys and patch management cycles in coordination with asset owners.
 Making incident report for the shift and submit to the Team Lead.
 Follow up Day to day Cyber incidents and find the cyber threat in our environment and take necessary actions
 Analyze spam and phishing Emails Find the IOC’s and block
 Take follow up and closing of the tickets based on the client response
 Provide communications related to security Events.
 Monitor and respond to all required operational support network events.
 Communicating with clients regarding issues.
 Monitoring IOC’s (Indicators of Compromise)
 Analyze the alerts and send to respective teams and getting it resolved.
 Finding threats related to new incidents and take appropriate mitigations
 Escalate the incident to the next level as compare per the SOP and escalation matrix
 Provide the logs (ad-hoc) requests from Arc sight, LogRhythm to the respective teams as per their requirements from stake holder
 Keeping track of inventory and update as & when required
 Daily, weekly & fortnightly report generation and share it across SOC team for review.

Noc Engineer at Telelogix IT Services LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2016 to January 2018

 Providing L1 support to over 5, 000+ users for all Manage Services customer.
 Responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of the networking devices for 24 x 7 call support of the production environments.
 Monitoring routers, switches, and other networking devices in Manage Engine OP Manager.
 Monitoring the performance and capacity of computer systems.
 Performing regular checks on network hardware and software.
 Provide first level support to any report issue and escalate to second level by using HelpDesk ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Manage Engine, HPSM).
 Have skill to identify and troubleshoot basic network-level issues.
 Knowledge of DNS, TCP-IP and other basic networking concepts.
 Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

IT Service Desk Engineer at FUJITSU
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2014 to May 2016

 Providing L1 remote support to over 5, 000 users for all Manage Services customers via Helpdesk calls, emails and chat.
 Ticket Logging and Engineer Assignment in ServiceNow, Manage Engine, BMC Remedy.
 Providing remote support for users using Dameware, SCCM and Netop remoting tools.
 Troubleshooting and performing deep level analysis for technical issues in
(Windows/Office 365/MAC/Network/Printers/Scanners/Cisco IP Phone/Avaya).
 Supporting Call Center staff (Network Issues / IP Phone issue).
 Providing Application Support (Opera, Avaya, Oracle, Dynamics CRM 365 etc).
 Monitoring routers, switches, network, servers and other devices in Manage Engine tool.
 Escalating of tickets to appropriate support groups within the organization.
 Installation of software using SCCM (Software Center).
 Review Symantec antivirus definitions (Antivirus Update).
 VOIP phone Extension creation, witness access, FAC code creation in Cisco Call Manager.
 Creating and managing Windows user ID’s and administration in Active Directory.
 Creating and managing Oracle ERP HRMS user ID’s.
 Follow complete procedure of ITIL and ITSM tool for request.
 Preparation of Daily/Weekly/Monthly reports

Education

Bachelor's degree, IT
  • at DECCAN COLLEGE OF ENGG AND TECH
  • April 2014

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Telugu
Expert

Training and Certifications

CompTia Security+ (Training)
Training Institute:
InfoSec Train
Date Attended:
February 2021
CCSA (Training)
Training Institute:
NETMETRICS
Date Attended:
January 2014
CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
NETMETRICS
Date Attended:
January 2014
CCSP (Training)
Training Institute:
NETMETRICS
Date Attended:
January 2014
ITIL (Certificate)
CCNA (Certificate)
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014

Hobbies

  • PLAYING CRICKET