Shehreyar Ahmed Kohati, SOC Lead

Shehreyar Ahmed Kohati

SOC Lead

Daraz Alibaba

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
6 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :6 years, 0 Months

SOC Lead at Daraz Alibaba
  • Pakistan
  • My current job since October 2020

Leading the Regional Cyber Defense Team at Daraz South East Asia’s five ventures (Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar)
 Strategized and implemented a proactive security roadmap that includes standard operating
procedures (SOPs), security operation policies, and security manuals to detect, mitigate, and
respond to cyber threats.
 Overlook the Alibaba Cloud Security (WAF, Firewall and Anti-DDoS), Endpoints, Infrastructure, and
Database security.
 Investigate security cases end-to-end by reviewing HTTP/Email/Endpoint/Sever logs and implement
mitigation strategies.
 Responsible for the SOC team to monitor real-time threats in the Security Operations Center (SOC).
 Work with cross-border teams of Alibaba (China) & Lazada (Singapore) on incidents, antimalicious/DDoS traffic solutions, and new product development.
 Reviewed the existing security controls (Firewall, EDR, Anti-virus, Email Security) and further
improved their efficiency by creating automated detection rules.
 Implemented Splunk SIEM as a POC and integrated it with Endpoints, Cloud Servers, On-prem
servers, Email logs etc

Principal Security Analyst at Digit Labs
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2018 to October 2020

Act as Security Compromise Assessment Lead for 6 major
banks in Pakistan.
Performed penetration testing (Security Testing) of existing Applications, Databases and Networks
for clients
Conducted and reported surveys for clients to assess networking and database requirements.
Install and update software patches to secure workstations, databases, and network appliances for
clients
Act as Team Lead for Security Incident Response Platform deployment and Integration with IBM QRadar
SIEM logging solution. Parse and review logs of the database, network, user applications and email
serve

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Institute Of Business Administration
  • August 2019

Majors in Computer Networks & Communication, Network Security, Cloud Security and Database administration.

Specialties & Skills

ICT Security
Malware Analysis
Leadership
Incident Management
Security Analysis
security analysis SOC/SIEM
malware analysis
Incident response and mitigation
threat intelligence
ISO 27001

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Sentinel (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2024
IBM Qradar (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Microsoft Defender for endpoint (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2024
ISO 27001 (Training)
Training Institute:
GRC learning
Date Attended:
May 2021

Hobbies

  • horse riding