Technical Security Consultant
Nawah Energy Company
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Responsibilities:
• Involved in daily operations of SOC like monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting Network security issues.
• Administration of Security appliances like Firepower management center, BIG F5 ASM, LTM & GigaMon.
• Involved in Security internal auditing, mitigation plan, Risk analysis and Vulnerability assessment.
• Monitoring and investigating threats and vulnerabilities with TripWire IP360, GigaMon security events and logs.
• Involved in improvement of Security Operation Center like drafting KPIs and other security controls.
• Involved providing guidance and support in setting security controls, SOP & other documentation.
• Involved with Vendors and other teams in implementing new security appliances and deployments.
Project Client : CBDC-Ruwais/Yokogawa office Musaffah Abu Dhabi - UAE
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Documentation on Detailed Design Specification, Method Statement and Factory Acceptance Test.
• Lead the team to perform the tasks of configuring devices and appliances as per the design document.
• Managing weekly meetings with customers and reporting the progress and status of the project work.
• Responsible to complete the Pre-FAT/FAT/SIT and getting closed all the punch points.
• Responsible for planning and executing the implementation as per Design Specification at the site.
• Complete the Site acceptance tests (SAT) after implementation
Sony Mobile Corp.), LUND - Sweden
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Done Due Diligence (DD) and DD Report presentation, Knowledge Transfer (KT) Planner and KT completion
at LUND, Sweden(Onsite)
• After completion of Knowledge Transfer (KT) trained the Team members at Offshore to set-up the 25
member team to provide 24x7 Support from the Offshore.
• Provided the training on ITIL process as per Sony Sweden environment and also provided hands-on
training on technologies F5 load-balances (LTM and GTM), Bluecoats Proxy, Juniper SRX, Checkpoint and
Mcafee Firewalls.
Solenis Security Management), Philadelphia - USA.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for planning, designing, providing various network security architecture options to customer
based on the requirements and budgeting of the customers.
• Configuring and implementing Network Security devices for Solenis as separate infrastructure carved out
of ASHLAND.
• Planning the implementation of Symantec Endpoint Protection Anti-Virus security at enterprise level for
Solenis.
• Planning the implementation of Firewalls, Bluecoats Proxy server, URL filtering, IPS/IDS devices and WAN
Optimization.
• After the implementation is completed, handover to Operations Management team after training the
Operations team personals
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Involved in Transition of certain Security services were after having worked at onsite and then created
new team at offshore.
• Skybox risk and network security analytic application
• Firewall Assurance, Risk Control and Network Assurance models of Skybox.
• Involved in identifying possible risks, threats and vulnerabilities on various network and security devices or
applications and reporting the same to next level after analysis with possible solution.
• Access control mechanisms on Juniper SSL VPN on Juniper SA6500 and Token Authentication.
• Configured Authentication Realms, User Roles and Resource Policies on Juniper SA6500.
• Involved in configuring and implementing Host Checker Policies/ restrictions on Juniper SA6500.
• RSA Token Server looking into the issues related to replication among the RSA server’s clusters.
• Troubleshooting the RSA token authentication issues with RSA token users.
• 4Tress Active Identity two factor authentication server used for internet Banking Users.
• Investigations and Security auditing on windows servers, Security applications Devices.
• Monitoring and Analyzing logs on Windows Servers, Security devices and applications in the network.
• IBM IPS appliances Proventia Network IPS GX3002 and HIPS RealSecure Server Sensors.
• Involved in log analysis on NIPS, HIPS and firewalls to identify the unknown sources, destination and
services to decide Block/Unblock.
• Process management on ITMS tools HP SM 7
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank) Security Operations, Singapore
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Monitored security critical alerts & warnings for security devices in the network of CACIB across the globe.
• Managed incidents, requests for changes, service requests, DRP activities & daily routine action against
new infections and treats post analysis of logs on various security devices.
• Consolidated rules & policies on the firewalls, guided local teams in various branches across the globe to
remove identified infections on antivirus enterprise servers.
• Identified, analyzed & reported various possible treats from critical/blocked traffic on IPS across the
network.
• Performed day to day routine activities & security checks of all architectures in the network across the
globe.
• Planning/approving/implementing improvements in process, practice and procedures in security
operations and reporting RCA (root cause analysis), PM (Post Mortem) for high priority incidents
whenever demanded by the Top management.
• Assessed threats & vulnerabilities for critical assets/facilities and implemented safeguard
recommendations
• Configured site to site VPN tunnels between new project offices, recommended security policies and
processes after evaluation.
• Done implementation of BIG IP F5 LTM, configured virtual server.
• Configured nodes, load balancing pools, pool members and profile on F5.
• Performed various tasks like renewal of SSL certificates for websites, deleting adding pool members on F5.
• Managed PROXY services like adding/removing URLs on Blue Coats Proxy servers.
• Managed DRP activities with key role in planning, scheduling & coordinating critical operations in IT
security.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Involved in mapping, scanning, remediation and reporting on QualysGuard.
• Generated reports of critical & warned alert for hosts post scan and recommended solutions for identified
vulnerabilities assessment and analysis of scan results.
• Assess threats & vulnerabilities for critical hosts and provided safeguard recommendations.
• Critical IT assets/facilities security policies management and implementation of safeguard
recommendations.
Firewall Operations Team), Bangalore-India
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Monitor logs on various security devices, assess vulnerabilities & threats, report to site system
administrators on possible potential risks and attacks, suggest and assist for solution to terminate possible
threats.
• Access control mechanisms on Juniper SSL VPN on Juniper SA6500 and Token Authentication.
• Configured Authentication Realms, User Roles and Resource Policies on Juniper SA6500.
• Involved in configuring and implementing Host Checker Policies/ restrictions on Juniper SA6500.
• Administer Sourcefire IPS DCs & Sensors, upgrade software version of DCs & Sensors, update Sourcefire
SNORT Enhanced Updates (SEU) and emerging threats on sensors.
• Add/ delete sensors in network based on requirements, liaise with vendor for hardware/ technical issues,
health checkups and maintenance of IPS sensors.
• Manage changes, requests & incidents on various security devices in the BP network.
• Planned/implemented improvements in process, practice and procedures in security operations and
reporting RCA (root cause analysis), PM (Post Mortem) for high priority incidents whenever demanded by
the Top management.
• Ensure smooth functioning of HIPS application environment (
Responsibilities:
• Initiated and scheduled weekly meetings on improvements and progress in various IT management related activities.
• Achieved Asset/Data Security at highest by introducing security policies and its awareness among end-users.
• Vigilantly performed packet analysis and traffic monitoring to avoid DoS/DDoS attacks and network slowdown.
• Responsible as a single point of contact for all communications related to test lab and network management, license management of software and hardware including IT infrastructure related purchasing in India as per the specified budget.
• Guided the structured cabling team of network cabling of new datacenter and Test lab as per the drawings.
• Redesigned the datacenter from the scratch and migrated from old tech environment to new tech environment during relocation of enterprise.
• Maintaining BAU with the minimum downtime, and the cost effective transformation during relocation.
• Managed disk space and quota on NAS (Network Attached Storage) from SANAT integrated with NFS.
• Managed Symantec Antivirus server, virus count, DNS (FreeBSD), DHCP (Medusa Linux servers in the network).
• Managed Virtual machines installations on both Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Administration in heterogeneous environment of various flavours of Linux OS and Windows OS.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Proven ability to achieve results in very high pressure environments and to keep teams motivated
• Ensured internet connectivity & implemented new equipments for enhanced network performance.
• Created and reported daily status reports of the network-security devices and applications, latest virus
infections, bandwidth utilization, possible vulnerabilities and risks to IT manager.
• Proven ability to achieve results in very high pressure environments to keep teams motivated and
coordinated with teams from other branches to resolve network and security related issues during the
crunch times.
• Configured site to site IPSec VPN tunnels for all the branches on Cisco 2801 routers, Cisco ASA 5510, for
director’s home offices on Cyber Guard Firewall/Routers, Easy-VPN on Cisco ASA 5510 for providing
connectivity for end users from anywhere in the world to Head office.
• Managed DSL & leased lines connections from different ISPs on LinkProof Load balancer from Radware for
link load balancing, High availability, ISP failover and Bandwidth management.
• Configured Cisco Router 2801 and Cisco ASA 5510 Firewall from the scratch.
• Assisted the management in constructing & implementing future plans and decision on network related
matters for new branches.
Responsibilities:
• Coordinated with customers in resolution of connectivity related issues.
• Monitored Network Links and traffic flow at the Interfaces of the core Routers.
• Worked on rules & policies changes on check point NG firewall through Smart Dashboard.
• Focused on system administration with regards to account management, object and password management.
• Rendered technical support for remote laptops with Win XP for onsite users.
• Installed & configured VPN agents, Mail Clients like MS Outlook, on office Laptops & Blackberry device.
• Updating Windows OS patches, Anti-virus version and other office application as per security policies.
• Maintained virus counts in the network, synchronization of RSA Secure Id Token and authentication issues.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Lead sub teams in reducing downtime & troubleshooting issues related to cable modem and corporate
customers using optic Fibre connections.
• Managed escalated calls from Level 1 engineers and customer support team.
• Liaised with RF team and maintained leased line/fibre link of corporate customers.
• Worked on BGP on Cisco 7200 series, Cisco Routers 7204vxr, 2801series & switches, various WAN.
• Monitored network devices on WhatsUp Gold, Nagios and MRTG.
• Focused on Bandwidth & User management using Quipus (Linux) Server.
• Assisted customers in resolution of issues with network connectivity and restored normal connectivity.