Md Tahseen Khan, Security Architect

Md Tahseen Khan

Security Architect

Akamai Technologies

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and communicationEngineering
Experience
10 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 6 Months

Security Architect at Akamai Technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since July 2019

Consulting and troubleshooting Akamai Security prodcuts like
Kona, BotMan, Prolexic.
• Daily work include live netwrok and applicationlayer attack mitigation by
creating custom
signatures on SNORT and WAF after indepth analysis.
• WAF -Web Application Firewall, DDOS Mitigation, Bot-Manger, Radware
Defense-Pro, Citrix
Netscaler, Linux.
• Knowledge in scripting languages like Python and bash.
• Strong knowledge in cyber and information security concepts.
• Strong knowledge in tools like Metasploit Frame work, Nmap, Armitage,
Nessus, Nikto
OpenVas, Web-Shell.
• Experience in WAF, DDOS Platform, Cloud Security, Network and application
Security.
• Various protocols knowledge like TCP, IP, UDP, SSL, TLS, HTTP, DNS.
• Knowledge on functioning and working of Network Firewall, IPS, IDS,
SNORT, Wireshark, NMAP,
Burp Suite, Tcpdump.
• Creating signatures using regular expression, Snort rules and Responder
Policies to mitigate the
attacks towards customer.
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• Working knowledge on web application vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting
- XSS, SQL
injection, command injection, LFI, RFI, PHP injection, CSRF, HTTP header
anomalies and OWASP
top 10.
• Sound knowledge Linux OS and File directory.
• Escalating the bugs to engineering to Dev team and working to fix the issue
with in the SLA.

Engineer at Technical Solutions
  • India
  • August 2016 to June 2019

Troubleshoot a wide variety of products like Delivery, acceleration and
security products of
Akamai
CDN.
• Products include Ion, Terra Alta, WAA, DSD, CPS, FastDNS, GTM, WAF etc.
• Troubleshoot issues related to caching, performance and security (WAF)
• Collect and analyze logs for post-attack information and troubleshooting to
mitigate future
attacks and provide RCAs.
• Work independently with customers' technical teams on both pre and post
sales technical
issues. The investigation of technical issues involved complex data analysis
from Akamai's
distributed network and an in-depth examination of the interaction between
Akamai and the
customer's origin infrastructure.
• Work closely with and manage issue-specific cross-functional teams
composed of
Engineering, Operations, Sales, Professional Services, and Account
Management
Representatives.
Aricent

Network Security Engineer at Aricent
  • India - Delhi
  • June 2014 to June 2016

Working as a TAC engineer I assisted over a thousand Cisco’s customer configuring and troubleshooting their network.
- Configure and troubleshoot Security Appliances ASA/PIX, IPS, Firewall Initialization, address translation (NAT, Global, Static).
- Configure and troubleshoot IP routing and VLANs, Access Control Lists, Failover, creating Security contexts (virtual firewall), transparent firewall, Modular Policy Framework, CDA, Site to site VPN, AAA and wccp redirection of firewall.
- Troubleshooting complex issues like high memory and CPU.
- Good knowledge of Cryptography and in-depth understanding of common algorithms like RSA, AES, 3DES and DES.
- Experience with Network and Intrusion Prevention system/ IPS modules / IDS ( Signatures, Mitigating DoS attacks, Endpoint security, Tuning)
- Understanding of the various types of attacks and the various ways to mitigate attacks using the inbuilt features on Cisco Devices like MPF configuration on Cisco ASA/PIX.
- Recreate issues faced by customers in my testing LAB whenever required on cases and filed bugs/caveats if found.
- Advanced knowledge on monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting issues.

Technical Support Engineer at British telecom
  • India - Delhi
  • October 2013 to April 2014

• Provide technical support for any queries related to British telecom’s broadband and other products.
• Troubleshooting and configuring BT router, Adapters, Access point, BT Wi-Fi and email.
• Round-the-clock technical support and problem resolution for customers and computer software and peripherals.for any queries related to

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and communicationEngineering
  • at Jamia Millia Islamia University
  • January 2013

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Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

CEH (Training)
Training Institute:
Haker School
Date Attended:
March 2017
Duration:
64 hours

Hobbies

  • Learning new technoligies
    Completed multiple online courses successfully