Cybersecurity Specialist

Rushan Charania

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Summary

Skilled cybersecurity professional and data privacy analyst with a background in information technology, engineering, and business management. Experienced in risk management, governance, compliance, and SLAs with strong critical thinking communications and people skills. Able to thrive in a fast and challenging environment where time management, accuracy, proficiency, and efficiency matter. Education

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Bachelors of Science, Network Engineering and Security, 2020 (Dean’s list 2018 – 2020) City College of Chicago Computer Systems Institute, Chicago, IL Arts in Economics, 2018 Associate in Small Business Administration, 2017 Pursing AWS CCP- Jan 2021

Comptia Security+ - Feb 2021

CISSP - Dec 2021

Experience

DePaul University, Chicago, IL - November 2019 - Present Technology Assistant

● Conduct technology analysis and report every month to check the health of the devices and update them and if requested.

● Compile and update hardware and software systems, assets, policies, procedures and solution documents.

● Lead the staff training to educate employees about the proper measures of security.

● Provide support for telecommunication technologies.

● Review the access control policy for the employees to determine adequacy and effectiveness.

● Provide contract agreements and management for vendors following the security.

● Used vulnerability management security tools including Veracode, Splunk, SolarWinds and Wireshark to review networks and ports.

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) - June 2019 - August 2019 Security Services

● Used vulnerability management security tools including Veracode, Splunk, SolarWinds and Wireshark to review networks and ports.

● Identified, evaluated, treated and reported on security vulnerabilities in the systems and software that runs on them.

● Monitored systems activities and configuring it to optimize the performance and security of systems and reporting it to management.

● Identified risks associated with the use of technology involving OCC and third parties and mitigated it.

● Analyzed risk findings in investigations and developed fact-based technical reports and compared it with the controls given using OCC’s framework.

● Performed hunting for malicious activity across the network and digital assets.

● Assisted with cyber research involving breach using MITRE att&ck and Cyber kill chain.

● Conducted risk assessment using industry frameworks (ISO, NIST & PCI) ZJ Group Inc, Oakbrook, IL - April 2016 - May 2019 Help Desk - Security

● Assisted and provided input to a special project as identified by the team and the Manager.

● Supervised OS receptionist & admin; conduct annual reviews and performance assessments

● Provided support to accounts by entering orders, returns, tracking shipments, providing stock status reports, problem-solving and providing solutions.

● Identified, diagnosed and resolved problems for users of the mainframe, personal computer software, hardware and local network.

● Trained colleagues in excel, sap and customer service at multiple facilities within the company.

● Created training schedules and guidelines and provided training to new employees on sap and customer service.

Boost Mobile, Chicago, IL - January 2015 - June 2016 Operations Manager

● Established and expanded relationships with key customers (1000+; distributed within 2 countries) and contacted them on a weekly basis.

● Negotiated competitive contracts with suppliers, contractors and service providers.

● Oversaw quality control on all the work performed.

● Maintained bookkeeping, marketing, and delivering of the services and products though multiple platforms on social media and in person.

● Carried and exceeded the quota of scheduling meetings and growing existing energy markets. Freelance - January 2018 - Present

● Website: “Grow with Cyber” - Created an educational website for new beginners of Cyber security/IT Auditing/Network Engineering students to learn.

● Project(Frameworks): Consultation of policies, procedures, frameworks and IT controls.

● Project(Engineering): Consultation of configuration and deployment of network and routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and RIP.

● Project(Engineering): Consultation of configuration, implementation and deployment of Cisco ASAs and Palo Alto Firewalls.

Skills

● Knowledge of applying NIST 800-171, 800-53, ISO27001, OWASP, PCI, HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST, etc

● Penetration testing – Hydra, Nikto, Hackthebox, JohnTheRipper Wireshark, Zmap

● Vulnerability management: Metasploit, Netsparker, Nmap, Qualys

● Protocols: DNS, DCHP, TCP/IP, OSI layers, firewalls, VPNs, HTTP/s, SMTP

● Programming language: Python, PowerShell, HTML, Bash, and C

● Experience with secure network design, entitlement design, database, and authentication methods

● Ability to assist in translating requirements into test conditions and expected results for testing.

● Strong understanding of SSH, SMB, LDAP, S/FTP, SNMP, SDN, etc

● Practical experience with security/network devices including: Cisco router, switches, firewalls, Juniper, IDS, and IPS

● Advanced knowledge of cloud concepts and security (AWS, Azure and GCP)

● Industry software: Salesforce, ServiceNow, Confluence and Jira

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