Yasir Thekkethil, SOC Engineer

Yasir Thekkethil

SOC Engineer

Salam

Location
Qatar
Education
Master's degree, Computer And Systems Engineering
Experience
4 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 6 Months

SOC Engineer at Salam
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since October 2022

• Administering splunk and splunk apps to include developing new/custom apps to perform specialized functionality.
• Integration of splunk with threat intelligence and XSOAR
• Performing maintenance and optimization of existing culstered splunk deployments
• Perform Static and dynamic malware analysis
• Conduct log analysis using splunk
• Leverages emerging threat intelligence using Recoded future threat intelligence platform (IOCs, Updated Rules etc.) to identify affected systems and the scope of the attack.
• Perform Vulnerability assessment and CIS audit scan using Tenable SC . Scan and monitor system vulnerabilities on servers and infrastructure devices using a Threat and Vulnerability security solution
• Leading high priority vulnerability assessments from start to finish, responsibilities included configuring Nessus, app detective and burp on production and non production jump boxes, scanning the clients environment (Windows/Linux servers, databases, and websites), troubleshooting with the client to resolve network and scan related issues, manually analyzing the results to remove false positives before creating and delivering a final report.
• Working on endpoint security cortex XDR and creating IOCs and alerts based on recent trends.

IT Specialist-Cyber Security at Manlift Qatar
  • Qatar
  • September 2019 to September 2022

• Working with SOC(Security Operations Centre) Team To conduct security monitoring or investigations.
• Managed Splunk configuration files like inputs, props, transforms, and lookups.
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) inquiries, made Reports, Alerts, and Dashboards and modified them.
• Helped in Integration of Splunk with Service now, maintaining Splunk Instance and Monitoring health of the Cluster.
• Giving awareness and review of relevant legislation and familiarity with working within EU and international legislative and regulatory frameworks (GDPR)
• Handling of SOPHOS EDR to evaluate and perform incident escalation in accordance with incident response procedures.
• Utilizes a ticketing system (Atlassian Jira) to handle incident management.
• Functional and technical assistance of Oracle Netsuite ERP and other SaaS applications (VM Ware Horizon, Insphire, Checkpoint, smartequip)
• Creates phishing campaigns specific to the current climate and business.
• Supports and manage operational activities in of the Incident Management Team for incident investigations.
• Managing information assurance assessment program (IAAP) to evaluate the health of the wing infosec IQ program.

Education

Master's degree, Computer And Systems Engineering
  • at Bangalore University
  • April 2015

Specialties & Skills

Threat Analysis
Tenable
VM (OPERATING SYSTEM)
INFORMATION ASSURANCE
MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONS
ENDPOINT SECURITY
Threat Intelligence
IT Security

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Training and Certifications

COMPTIA Security+ (Certificate)
Certified Information System Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2021