JERIN ETTIYIL JOSE
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Senior IT Security
specialist
Summary
. 10+ years in the IT security field with Master Degree in computer
science
. Substantial experience in the area of Security Information Management.
Network/security administration, and Security Assessment
. Experience in Security Information Management system (MacAfee
Nitro),Integrity Monitoring, Intrusion Detection and Threat Risk
Assessments
. Threat detection and evaluation: designing access control policies in
order to comply with industry standards
. Network traffic and log analysis: identifying and classifying
attempted compromises to networks through heuristics identification of
suspect traffic.
. Technical support: prioritize delegate and action client tickets.
. Substantial experience in Firewalls(checkpoint/ASA),Cisco Routers
and VPN
. Working knowledge on intrusion detection(IDS/IPS) systems using ISS
Site protector
. Substantial knowledge on TACACS+(Accounting, Authentication and
Authorization)
. Expert in monitoring tools such as CA unicenter, HP-openview and
Ethereal
. Knowledge on Programming languages like c,c++,Java,VB and VC++
. Knowledge on load balancing technologies such as virtual servers,
health monitors, clusters, local traffic management and compression
. Strong knowledge on TCP/IP stack and related protocols like
DNS,WINS,DHCP and SNMP
Professional Certifications
. CISSP
. ITIL
. CCNA
Professional Experience - Since October 2008
Employer: Canadian Tire
Role: Senior Technical specialist - Security
.
Responsibilities:-
. Network traffic and log analysis: identifying and classifying
attempted compromises to networks through identification of suspect
traffic.
. Configure and Maintain Nitro SEIM, Reciever,Correlation Engine and
log collector
. Maintain Receiver and correlation rules
. Security Implementation and monitoring: Implement checkpoint firewall
and monitor for vulnerabilities using Eventia Reporter
. URL filtering and monitoring (Websense)
. Restrict the internet access through proxy polices((Bluecoat proxy and
reporter)
. Implementing and monitoring Remote access policies using SSL VPN and
IPSEC tunnels
. SSL security through Certificate allocation (VeriSign)
Professional Experience - February 2008
Employer: Sentry Metrics, 1852 Queen St. Toronto.
Role: Security/sentry administrator
.
Responsibilities:-
. Monitoring: monitoring of client logs such as syslog,System event
logs,database logs and firewall logs through Enterprise SIEM
Solutions Arc Sight
. Behavioural analysis: Audit and monitor systems for compliance issues
and unusual occurrences according to established guidelines,
investigate and escalate as necessary
. Antivirus monitoring : monitoring antivirus solutions like Trend micro
to alert the clients regarding any Trojan, worms or virus attack in
the network
. IDS Monitoring: Monitoring the logs from IDS and Filtering out false
positives from the IDS signatures
. Process Audit : perform process audit for the clients based on the
ITIL principles
. Security Audit: Perform security audit for the clients on all levels
such as network, systems and applications.
. Penetration testing - Perform penetration test against clients to
identify the security vulnerabilities and risks
. Service Level Agreement: Minimizing the downtime, following the
process & meeting the SLA's (Service Level Agreement) in any
condition.
Projects Handled:-
. Security Audit for showcor Private Ltd - Performed test using three
tools such as GFI Languard, Retina and Nessus.Validated the findings,
rated the risks and prepared the report.
. Process Audit for Cancer Care Ontario :performed a process audit
through document review and employee interviews
. Vulnerability Assessment of network traffic for Credit Union Ontario:
performed the vulnerability assessment of network traffic using tool
called Thread Inspector
Professional Experience - October 2005 to August 2007
Employer: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS), India
Role: Security administrator
.
General Responsibilities:-
. Security Analysis: Day to day management and analysis of Firewalls and
Intrusion Detection Systems (both network and host based)
. Security administration: managing 22 location checkpoint firewalls(
installed on Nortel box in HA mode) and resolve any access related
issues
. Root Cause Analysis(RCA): Audit and monitor systems for compliance
issues and unusual occurrences according to established guidelines;
investigate and escalate as necessary
. Level 2 support : Close the trouble tickets raised by the different
network/security engineers to resolve various access related issues
. Network design and implementation: Designing the network for the new
site which includes IP address allocation, Bandwidth allocations,
Multilink Creation, and router/switch/firewall configuration
. Proactive core network/security monitoring- This includes the
proactive monitoring of the Complete Network/security for all the
Sites and their LAN/WAN Links using CA unicenter, HP-Open view and ISS
Siteprotector (GUI console for IDS).
. Troubleshooting the Network:-. This includes making changes in the
Configuration of the Routers, Switches, firewalls, Load balancer,
HIDS/NIDS and VPN if required.
. Service Level Agreement: Minimizing the downtime, following the
process & meeting the SLAs (Service Level Agreement) in any condition.
. ITIL Process : Incident and change Management, KEDB, PMDB and CMDB
Management
Professional Experience: -March 2004 - September 2005
Employer: Logic Software Solutions PVT LTD
Role: Technical support Engineer
General Responsibilities:-
. Maintained LAN in the client place which consists of windows
machines/servers
. Maintained an ISDN connectivity to corporate office
. Maintained routers in the 2600 and switches in 2950 series
. Creation of vlan,assigning of ports,inter vlan routing and VTP
creation
. Cisco Router and Switch IOS up gradation
. Documentation, Resource Planning and marketing
. Handling training for Cisco certification CCNA/CCNP
. Worked on general networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP,
switching, routing, IP Addressing/subnetting and Windows
networking.
Professional Experience: July - December 2003
Employer: MIMS School Education
Role: School Faculty
General Responsibilities:-
. Corporate Training on Microsoft Office
. Training on C, C++, Java, Oracle and SQL
EDUCATION
Master of computer application, periyar university, TN, INDIA (May 2000 -
July 2003)
Bachelor of Science (Physics), Calicut University, Kerala, INDIA