Saravana Prabhu G

Messasing Security Researcher/Anti Spam Analyst / Programmer

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Email Security Analysis, Operations & programming ~ Product Development & Testing

Offering over 7+ years of Pioneering Success in Intel Security, AOL - Antispam Analysis/Operations & programming, Symantec Bright mail- Email Security Operations, and 2 years in Gsec1 - XGate Product development &Testing

EXEPERIENCE SUMMARY

7+ years of experience as a Security researcher - Spam analysis and programming from McAfee(Intel Security), AOL and Symantec

oWorking knowledge on UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Emails) – policies, efforts and standards

oSpecialties : Anti-spam, mail header analysis, mail filtering, RFC 822

oStandards & protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, DNS

oComprehensive knowledge at SPAM analysis, mail security, mail servers and mail filtering

oExcellent in writing regular expression and heuristics.

oGood knowledge in Phishing/Spoofing, rDNS, DNS, TELNET, SMTP, ESMTP, IMAP, POP3

oGood knowledge of MacAfee, AOL & Symantec messaging techniques, spam fighting techniques & proprietary tools

2 years of Experience as a Product developer and tester from Global Security One

oGood knowledge in SDLC, product development and testing

oExperienced in C, C++ and C#.net

oExcellent in debugging and unit testing

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Operating Systems : Windows Family

Programming Languages : C, C++, Java, C#.Net

Scripting Languages : Perl, Shell, Python

Database Management Systems : MS-SQL 2008, postgresql

Project Management & Documentation Tools : Microsoft Office 2003, MS Visio, Outlook

Specialties : Anti-spam techniques, mail, internet security,

Mail filtering, scalability, regular expressions

Tools : McAfee messaging security tools, AOL Antispam Proprietary tools,

BLOC – Bright mail Spam filtering Tool

Achievements

Star Performer award from AOL – 2010

ITIL v3 certified

CEH v7 certified

Strengths

Strong Analytical and problem solving skills

Focused and hardworking, self-motivated and team oriented

A team player who thrives on working in diverse teams and challenging environment.

Excellent comprehensibility, perfectionism, learning eagerness and open-mindedness to new ideas

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

McAfee Software (Intel Security), Bangalore (Security researcher - Messaging) Nov 2014 - Present

Role: Security Researcher

Working on McAfee Email Gateway(MEG) as well as SaaS ( Cloud email operations) with a creative, enthusiastic and geographically distributed team that is responsible for Planning, Monitoring, Reviewing and Analysing the threats and develop/generate filters for spam attacks against the mail headers and body with less false positive

Skills: Anti-Spam, Phishing/Spoofing, Malware analysis, RDNS, DNS, SMTP, ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, TELNET.

Perl – Regular Expressions, Linux & Windows

Familiar with tools such as whois, arin, ping, telnet, dig, traceroute, RIPE

Responsibilities:

Development of predictive Anti-Spam Filters using Perl

Analysis of SPAM and Legit emails and writing Anti-Spam, Anti-Fraud and legit rules using Regular Expressions

Analyse threats and develop rules and services designed to guard against observed pattern

Classifies, analyses, and creates solutions to threats working independently or with other Researchers.

Working on Cloud email operations to improve efficiency of SaaS email security services in real time

Identifies, researches, and resolves complex customer and internal issues in a timely and high quality manner.

Forensically investigates problems, conceptualizes solutions, innovates, and develops proactively thinking ideas and solutions.

Involved in troubleshooting customer’s escalations.

Actively involved in escalation point/false positives for complex threats.

Participates in Security Industry discussions and initiatives.

Involved in development research tools and debugging/troubleshooting methodologies.

Working very close to engineering team and other researchers within the org.

Creates reusable documentation on key technologies and topics.

Provides training to new hires

Mindtree Ltd, Bangalore (Module Lead - Transfer of service from AOL India) May 2011 – Nov 2014

AOL India, Bangalore (Application Analyst) Feb 2010 – Apr 2011

Role: Anti-Spam Analyst / Programmer

Working with a creative, enthusiastic and geographically distributed team that is responsible for Planning, Monitoring, Reviewing and Analysing the Spam and legitimate emails and develop/generate filters for spam attacks against the mail headers and body with less false positive

Skills: Anti-Spam, Phishing/Spoofing, Malware analysis, RDNS, DNS, SMTP, ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, TELNET.

Perl – Regular Expressions, Linux & Windows

Responsibilities:

Development of predictive Anti-Spam Filters using Perl

Analysis of SPAM and Legit emails and writing Anti-Spam, Anti-Fraud and legit rules using Regular Expressions

Analyse messages (spam and legitimate) and develop rules and services designed to guard against observed threats

Developed heuristic rules based on various pattern matching algorithm

Creates email header rules based on RFC822 standard with less false positive

Working on AOL proprietary Anti-Spam Techniques/Tools and broad range of Internet Tools, Applications and procedures

Applying advanced data analysis to read spam messages; identify, categorize, classify and action on the SPAM messages & SPAM source

Taking care of AOL’s Anti-Spam servers

Aided in creation of AOL Fraud Management Engine, which helps AOL consumers protection from Phishing

Responsible for Whitelist, Blacklist and Grey list of DNS and URLs

Involved in innovation activities to increase the quality, efficiency and scalability of the team that includes tool enhancement/process re-engineering.

Ensuring we meet our challenging SLA's

Research of malware and their characteristics and take appropriate actions

Involved in automation of filters using Perl

Interaction with other ISPs

Provides Training to new recruits

Symantec Corporation, Chennai June 2008 – Nov 2009

Role: Security Response Technician (Email Security Analyst)

Responsible for Planning, Monitoring, Reviewing and Analysing the Spam and legitimate emails and generate filters against the mail headers and body with less false positive.

Skills: Anti-Spam, Phishing/Spoofing, Malware analysis, RDNS, DNS, SMTP, ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, TELNET.

Perl – Regular Expressions, Linux & Windows

Responsibilities

Analysis of spam and legit mails and writing Anti-Spam, Anti-Fraud and legit rules using Regular expressions.

Analysis of emails from different languages and categorize them using language tools.

Development of predictive Anti-Spam filters using Regular Expressions and Heuristics.

Attended Tech Forum meetings which included Conference calls with Team Leads. Discussion of issues specific to the product.

Reporting emerging threats in Spam for public consumption.

False positive processing to maintain high efficiency of the product

Providing Training to the new recruits

Global Security One(GSec1) July 2006 – June 2008

Role: Junior Tech Member

XGateV2 Security Gateway Device:

XGate is an Internet Security Gateway Device for Home User market to make home user Internet experience safer and worry free. It is designed to stop the security threats at the gateway, before they can reach a user’s home Computer. XGate is packed with ten Security features like Child Chat Room Monitoring, Intelligent Child Chat Room Monitoring, Secure Banking, Identity Protection, Spam Email Control, Secure Gaming, Web filter, Firewall, Antivirus, and Remote Access through which it makes the Home Users Internet experience a secured one.

Language: C, C++, C#.net

Scripting language: Shell script

Environment: Linux (red hat 9.0), Win XP

Responsibilities

Implemented License check mechanism where some features has to get disabled after expiry.

Responsible for Unit testing, debugging and integrating the Modules

Reviewing the code of the core modules

Have clear idea about the performance testing

Execution of unit test cases.

Coordinating with development team during their testing cycle

Reporting and tracking of bugs and providing inputs to developers in resolving them.

Testing and validating hot fixes for customer issues

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Computer Science and Engineering 2005

Kings College of Engineering, Pudukottai Dt, Anna University, Tamilnadu (India)

PERSONAL PROFILE

Name : Saravana Prabhu G

Father’s name : R. Goindarajan

Date of Birth : 07/02/1984

Marital status : Single

Nationality : Indian

Address : 2381, Krishna Royar Lane, Ellaiyamman koil Street, Thanjavur, TN – 613009

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