Cybersecurity Analyst Soc
Resume:
Puja Mahajan
************@*****.***
Rockville, MD
SUMMARY
Highly skilled Cybersecurity Analyst with more than 3 years of experience in developing and implementing security policies, procedures, and best practices resulting in a 25% decrease in security incidents and breaches. Proven track record in conducting regular vulnerability scans and penetration tests, identifying, and remediating 75% of security weaknesses before they could be exploited. Dynamic and detail-oriented, self-motivated, multitasking, creative problem-solving skills, and customer-focused with excellent communication. Collaborative team player with exceptional skills in monitoring and analyzing potential and active threats using various security tools and processes. A fast learner and comprehensive understanding of cyber laws, including the ISO 27001 standards and security policies. I am dedicated to continuing to learn new skills while contributing to company success.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Penacity, LLC/ AboutWeb, LLC Hanover MD Feb 2022- Present SOC Analyst
• Conducts proactive monitoring, investigation, and mitigation of security incidents.
• Analyze security events, and intrusion related activities using Intrusion Detection/ Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Firewalls, Endpoint protection using various tools.
• Investigate security events for clients and set up the arrangements with security engineers to develop and adjust SIEM rules as per clients desired.
• Enforce incident response SLAs.
• Ensure the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational security policies, through monitoring of vulnerability scanning devices.
• Correlates network activity across networks to identify trends of unauthorized use.
• Research new and evolving threats and vulnerabilities with potential to impact the monitored environment.
• Involved in the creation of business continuity/disaster recovery plans, to include conducting disaster recovery tests, publishing test results, and making changes necessary to address deficiencies.
• Able to resolve problems independently and understand escalation procedure.
• Creating the weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports addressing the security events related to malware, vulnerabilities, exploits and kill chain methodology.
• Actively participated in annual cyber incident response, reporting and desktop exercise.
• Capable of precise documentation and report writing.
• Actively coordinate escalations and collaborate with internal technology teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.
• Capable of understanding and applying policies, procedures and security practices in the organization.
• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, knowledge objects, administration, dashboards. Expertise in threat intelligence platform Sophos. Closely worked with Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team to monitor and resolve the security issues.
Puja Mahajan
************@*****.***
Rockville, MD
Penacity / AboutWeb, LLC Hanover MD Sept 2021-Jan 2022 SOC Analyst Apprenticeship
• Analyzing threat events, evaluating malicious activity, documenting unusual files and data, and identifying tactics, techniques and procedures used by attackers.
• Install and perform repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment, following design/ installation specifications.
• Escalate incidents and act as a security incident responder when necessary.
• Involved with ongoing evaluation, coordination, and implementation of system patches.
• Install and maintain hardware and operating systems. Gained strong TCP/IP networking skills to perform network analysis to isolate and diagnose.
• Excellent in communicating with clients and system engineers via slack, phone and emails.
• Configuration and administrating Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System (DFS), Internet Information Services (IIS) and Remote Access Services (RAS).
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Patching all windows servers and workstations with company standards.
• Worked with senior resources on system maintenance and helped to obtain and maintain Patch documentation.
Penacity LLC/ AboutWeb, LLC
Hanover MD March 2021- Aug 2021
Cyber Security/ Business Development Intern
• Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information.
• Act as escalation point of contact for 24x7 related to operation.
• Conducted regular vulnerability scans and penetration tests, identifying, and remediating 80% of security weaknesses before they could be exploited. Washington Diamonds Corporation, Beltsville MD Jan 2019- March 2020 Logistic Associates
• Superior supply and logistics management experience.
• Data entry and Record keeping of goods.
• Inventory management.
TECHNICAL AND SPECIALIZED SKILLS:
Operating systems: RHEL 8/9, Centos 7/8, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04, Windows 2008/2010/2011 Services: NFS, SSH, SFTP, FTP
Languages: HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Python, Java
Networking: TCP/IP, UDP, LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP
Ticketing System: Jira, ConnectWise
Version control Tools: Git
Database: SQL Server, MySQL
Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, & Access Data visualization: Tableau Software
Puja Mahajan
************@*****.***
Rockville, MD
Vulnerability Scanner: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner SIEM: Splunk
Cyber Security tools: Wireshark, Nmap, OpenStego, BitLocker, EnCase Professional Trainings (Montgomery College)
• ITI Networking Academy (94 hours)
• AWS Cloud Engineering, Introduction (85 hours)
• Cyber Security Boot Camp (150 hours)
• Data Analyst Boot Camp (35 hours)
• Java Mini Boot Camp (35 hours)
• Linux I and Linux II
• Python I and Python II
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Cybersecurity
Graduated 2022
University of Maryland Global Campus
Adelphi, MD
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Master of Business Studies
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal
Graduated 2018
CERTIFICATION
CompTIA Network +
CompTIA Security +
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