OBJECTIVE

I possess a solid background in a dynamic range of cyber security and network defense. I would like to turn my passion for cyber security into a profession. I am an experienced cyber security professional committed to maintaining cutting edge technical skills and industry knowledge. I would like to have a position within a growth - oriented organization where I can help achieve its objectives by utilizing my experience, education and skills to the fullest extent and become a part of their team in a commitment that I can serve the mankind and make differences in their lives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cybersecurity Analyst

Confidential,Chantilly, VA

• Participate in the planning and design of enterprise security architecture to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements,
• Provide feedback to design engineers and evaluate end-to-end systems and systems-oriented products through their entire life cycle,
• Working as expert, conduct research and evaluate technical performance of software products and overall segments and systems,
• Ensure products and systems comply with requirements and government information assurance and cyber security standards and practice through formal verification methods,
• Verify/validate systems with specific emphasis on network operations and cyber warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures focused on the threat to information networks,
• Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the requirements. Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements,
• Participate in the creation of enterprise security documents (policies, processes, standards, guidelines, and procedures) under the direction of the Chief Information Security Officer,
• Assist in Vulnerability Management Processes, to identify the vulnerable systems, document, and report for appropriate remediation process,
• Provide operational support for all in-place security platforms and monitor them for proactive and efficient cyber operations,
• Implement deep dive analyses on alerts received from enterprise security tools, and take actions on remediation process,
• Respond to security questions and requests from the users and management,
• Process user security and exemption requests and conduct analysis for approval process,
• Produces high-quality papers, presentations, recommendations, and reports for senior management as well as US government intelligence and operations officials,
• Work with other team members to ensure an efficient cyber incident management system.

Cybersecurity Analyst

Confidential,Washington, DC

• Perform proactive network monitoring and threat analysis,
• Monitor and investigate suspicious network activities utilizing IDS/IPS systems,
• Analyze network traffic and various log data to determine the threat/impact on the network,
• Evaluate and perform incident escalation in accordance with incident response procedures,
• Perform incident handling and documentation within the incident response lifecycle (detection, triage, analysis, mitigation, reporting and documentation),
• Efficiently facilitate the tracking, handling, and reporting of all security events and incidents,
• Implement deep dive analyses and provide recommendations on threat actors and IOCs,
• Attend classified briefings in order to facilitate the sharing of information and increased awareness of cyber threats,
• Utilize threat intelligence tools to support the daily cyber security operations, and produce intel analysis about threat actors, IOCs, and vulnerabilities,
• Produce threat reports and briefings by integrating open source and classified data, to provide situational awareness on current issues for senior leadership for potential policy updates,
• Provide guidance and operational support, situational awareness and recommendations on national security, threats as well as cyber security and network defense,
• Research, evaluate, and suggest commercial and government cyber security threat analysis to identify stronger security protocols.
• Work with other team members to ensure an efficient cyber incident management system.

IT Security Analyst

Confidential,Washington, DC

• Perform proactive network monitoring, through Intrusion Detection Systems,
• Monitor ArcSight Security Console alerts and take appropriate action as needed,
• Monitor all other security solutions for efficient and appropriate operations,
• Investigate intrusion attempts and perform in-depth analysis of exploits,
• Perform incident handling life cycle and documentation,
• Detect and block malicious network traffic at the Web Security Gateway,
• Verify blocking of malicious emails via FireEye and ProofPoint portals,
• Respond to security requests from the users and management.

IT Security Analyst

Confidential,Germantown, MD

• Monitor and investigate large sets of data on clients’ portal to detect fraudulent activities,
• Detect and block fraudulent and malicious network traffic,
• Apply shutdown procedure when fraudulent activities detected,
• Apply technical shutdown process and dilution on the phishing sites if required,
• Resolve the fraudulent and phishing incidents through incident response tickets,
• Establish communication with registrars, ISPs, hosting companies, webmasters, and the domain owners to expedite the shutdown of the fraudulent web sites,
• Coordinate cases with Law Enforcement Agencies if needed.