CHIRAG SHARMA

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Profile

A highly capable, delivery focused Cyber Security enthusiast with 8 months experience in Security Operations Center of a ‘Big 4’ firm as a Tier 2 Analyst responsible for triage, hunting and remediation of security threats.

MSc. in Cybersecurity with 3+ months experience as an Information Security Intern in a Fortune 500 company in Ireland along with a total of 4+ cross industry technical experience.

Looking actively for a SOC analyst role with availability to work on a shift rota basis to provide 24x7 monitoring.

A strong hold in log assessment of firewall, IDS, IPS, DLP, CyberArk, Windows and Cloud native event logs and aligning them with Cyber Kill Chain / Mitre Attack Framework to aid incident investigations and to understand adversaries’ tactics and techniques

Top Skills:

Threat Monitoring, Threat Hunting, Network Security, SIEM, EDR, Incident Response, Privileged Access Management

Languages:

English (Fluent written & Oral), Hindi (Native)

Visa

Currently on Tier 2 General visa in U.K., eligible to work 40 hours a week. Visa sponsorship will be required.

Technical Knowledge:

Applications:

SIEM: Micro Focus ArcSight (On-Site Training), Splunk (Certified)

Cloud Security Tools: Azure Identity Protection, Defender ATP, Microsoft Cloud App Security, O365 Security & Compliance

Log Assessment: Elastic Kibana, Devo

EDR: Cybereason, Cylance

Vulnerability Management: Qualys (Certified), Bug Blast, Nessus, Nmap, SearchSploit

Jira Service Desk, Confluence, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio), Virtual Box

Programming languages:

Python – Implementation of ML and data visualization programs, Web development in Python-Django, Scripting during Penetration testing.

Bash scripting learned in 2.5 years of career experience.

Web development HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT during various internships for various web development firms.

Education:

National College of Ireland, Dublin - Msc. Cybersecurity Jan 19 – Mar 20 Grade 2:1

Modules Studied: Secure Programming for Web, Security Fundamentals, Network Security and Penetration Testing, Malware Analysis, Cryptography, Secure Programming for Application Development, Incident Response and Forensics, E-discovery.

Thesis Research Project: Feed Forward MLP SPAM domain detection Using Authoritative DNS Records and Email Logs. (Published on College’s e-library)

Amity University, Noida – B.Tech. Information Technology Aug 12 – May 16 Grade 2:1

Modules Studied: Enterprise Network Design, IT infrastructure management, Agile Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Applied Mathematics.

Final year Project: Developed a load balancer module on SDN based OpenDayLight controller with Mininet and published a paper as ‘Leveraging Openflow protocol using Software Defined Networks in load balancing of Data Center Networks”

Work Experience

Consultant, Security Operation Center, Defense, Risk Advisory (Sep-20 – Present)

Deloitte UK, Reading, United Kingdom

As a part of the Managed Security Services team, identified and investigated potential threats and security alerts triggered by Arcsight or Splunk correlations came in through Jira Service Desk.

Leveraging wide array of OSINT as well as on-premises tools such as Arcsight, Kibana and other technologies to discern the security threats from false positives and escalate any intrusions or attacks

Apart from triaging of alerts, worked closely with the client’s IT security team having sites across 50+ locations across the world and produce detailed reports based on trend analysis and risk assessments.

Worked towards continuous improvement of processes and procedures on Confluence to streamline and automate certain aspects of triage and investigation and build strong knowledge base for the team.

Information Security Intern (Sep-19 – Dec-19)

CRH Group Services, Dublin, Ireland

Associated with Information security team working for operating companies performing: -

Email threat detection and response with combination of proprietary cloud based messaging gateways and O365, with an overview of the DMARC policy implementation.

Helped in auditing the information security controls for their ISMS policy during the ISO27001 implementation.

Scanning external as well as internal assets of operating companies using Qualys, Nessus and remediation of vulnerabilities with higher business risk score.

Network penetration testing on the operating company’s network (Limited).

Member Technical Staff (Jan-17 – Dec-18)

NEC India Ltd., Noida, India

Worked as offshore member handling the team of 4 people who report to benchmarking and research team of NEC Corp. Japan (Government Services Department) on their supercomputer performing below activities: -

Application Benchmarking:

oPorting of metrological applications generally in Fortran, C, MPI, OpenMP on a Unix based environment.

oPerformance profiling and optimization for client’s vector architecture-based CPUs.

Research and Publications: Contribution in research in Multiphysics applications and their coupling.

Achievements

Multiple shout outs and appreciations by the team for having a great work ethic and stepping up to the occasion to fill performance gaps within team members

Appreciation by the client for delivering a detailed risk assessment of their legacy servers which opened doors for a future upsell opportunity.

Hobbies

Playing Football, Keen interest in Spirituality (Yoga and Meditation), Love to watch Sitcoms.

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