Parthasarathi Balasubramanian
Abu Dhabi,UAE
Summary
Driven professional ready to excel as Senior Cyber Security Engineer. Proficient in network security and risk management, with strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Committed to safeguarding critical systems and enhancing cyber resilience for organizations.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2018
2018
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior cyber security engineer
EMSTEEL
Abu Dhabi, UAE
04.2022 - Current
- Developed robust cyber security measures by conducting thorough vulnerability assessments.
- Streamlined internal procedures for enhanced network integrity.
- Improved system resilience with regular firewall audits and updates.
- Conducted in-depth penetration testing to identify potential threats.
- Analysed latest cyber threat trends for proactive defence strategy formulation.
- Managed response protocols to minimise data loss during security breaches.
- Aligned security policies with regulatory standards for seamless business operations.
- Deployed end-to-end encryption technologies to secure sensitive information transmission.
- Implemented multi-factor authentication processes, enhancing user account protection.
- Verified software security by conducting comprehensive code reviews and debugging sessions.
- Advised on the selection of cybersecurity tools, ensuring optimal threat detection and mitigation.
- Tested security measures and systems, performing risk assessments to detect vulnerabilities.
- Implementing & Managine OT Security Firewalls Managing secure connection between IT OT bridge
Role Insights in MAST Consulting Group, Dubai
MAST Consulting Group
Dubai
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Implementing & Managing SOC SIEM & security components
- Doing Health Checkup, Security audit to the IT infra & Security solutions
- Perform the security architecture review, analyze the solutions and provide the redesigned solution architecture as per the recommended standards
- Perform the Cloud configuration review ( Teams, O365,Sharepoint ) admin portal security hardening.
Role Insights in RNS Technologies, Dubai
RNS Technologies
Dubai
07.2018 - 12.2021
- Implementing & Managing Information security & Network security components
- Routinely develop & update incident response play books, policies, guidelines to ensure all activities align with best practices minimize gaps in response and provide comprehensive migration of threats
- Spam/Phishing mail analysis (header, signature, URL), Malware analysis using variable technologies
- Managing Firewalls, PAM, Email gateways, DLP solutions, Proxy & Endpoint solutions
- Weekly, Monthly incident summary and major incident RCA report submit for the senior management
- Leading the daily standup, weekly team meeting and involving security product POC
- Managing OT Cyber security & VPN devices
- IT assets security audit and reporting - Security audit report delivery for multiple customers
- Vulnerability Management -Audit finding closure from VA reports
- Hardening - Accomplishing windows and Linux VM/physical servers hardening process.
Role Insights in Sify Technologies (ISP), India
Sify Technologies
India
11.2014 - 06.2018
- Part of Security Center (MSS-SOC) and Handling Enterprise, Banking, Insurance Based Clients
- Managing and Monitoring more than 600+ security devices such as Endpoints, Firewalls Proxy, Email gateway, IPS/IDS, MDM, Load Balancers & ArcSight SIEM
- Implementing ArcSight for multiple clients & integrating various security devices
- Administration of SIEM consoles raise incidents based on the criticality of alerts defined to the organization
- Creating dashboards on high level based on the devices integrated in ArcSight
- Handling tickets like incident response, service request, change request and problem management related network security devices
- Troubleshooting and configuring related to firewall policy, RA VPN & IPSEC VPN, web & application filters, IPS, DLP, NAT, internet access issues, ISP link fail over, HA, traffic shaping, AD & radius integration to ArcSight SIEM
- Whitelisting and blacklisting IOC's like hash's, IP address, Web & mail domains in respective controls
- Creating & maintaining knowledgebase and standard operating procedure documents for all clients
- 24x7 SIEM monitoring for critical devices of client network by using ArcSight and talking necessary action in respective devices and sharing reports of security incident occurrences to clients
- Monthly SIEM, AV & SOC incidents report submission
- Experience with Information technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts.
Education
M.Sc. - Cyber Forensics & Information Security
Madras University
M.E - Communication Systems
Anna University
Skills
- Firewall Management (IT &OT)
- IDS/IPS
- Proxy
- EMail Gateway
- ICT security systems
- PAM
- Incident Handling / Response
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Security Hardening/ Review
- Endpoint Detection Response
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Malware Analysis
- Mail Analysis
- Traffic Analysis
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Firewall administration
- Data loss prevention techniques
- Application security development
- IOT security experience
- Cloud services management
- Network topology design
Certification
- CEH V10
- Akamai Professional
- Fortinet NSE 1-3
- Forcepoint Web Security
- Forcepoint Data Security
- CyberArk Trustee
- CCNA Security (Sec)
- CCNA Routing & Switching (R&S)
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Balasubramanian K
- Date of birth: 06/1991
- Nationality: Indian
Custom
I do hereby declare that the information and facts stated here in above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Languages
English
Advanced
Tamil
Native
Affiliations
- Frequency Analysis
- Badminton
Timeline
Senior cyber security engineer
EMSTEEL
04.2022 - Current
Role Insights in MAST Consulting Group, Dubai
MAST Consulting Group
01.2022 - 03.2022
Role Insights in RNS Technologies, Dubai
RNS Technologies
07.2018 - 12.2021
Role Insights in Sify Technologies (ISP), India
Sify Technologies
11.2014 - 06.2018
M.E - Communication Systems
Anna University
M.Sc. - Cyber Forensics & Information Security
Madras University
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