Thanesh Kumar
Dubai
Summary
Senior Security Analyst with 10 years of SOC experience in threat detection, incident response, and cyber risk mitigation. Skilled in SIEM/NDR optimization, team leadership, and proactive threat hunting to enhance organizational security.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Security Analyst
LinkShadow DMCC
01.2023 - Current
- Analyzed security threats and vulnerabilities in various systems and applications.
- Monitored network traffic to identify suspicious activities and potential breaches.
- Evaluated new security tools for integration into existing systems.
- Documented security incidents, responses, and resolutions to ensure compliance.
- Utilized SIEM tools to analyze system logs for detecting intrusions or malicious activity.
SOC Engineer- Level 2
Meeza QSTP
Qatar
08.2021 - 12.2023
- Provided 24x7 support for MEEZA Managed Services across multiple government projects.
- Conducted Tier 2 incident analysis and response for escalated issues.
- Recommended optimizations for existing use cases to Engineering team.
- Analyzed logs from various sources including Windows, Firewall, IDS, and IPS.
- Performed vulnerability management and asset scanning for customer environments.
- Responded to alerts from O365 Security Center, Cloud App Security, and Defender for Endpoints.
- Managed and responded to alerts from DARKTRACE Antigena, SaaS, and Email systems.
- Utilized SIEM tools like SPLUNK, LogRhythm, and McAfee ESM for comprehensive security monitoring.
SOC Analyst
Inspired Network Solutions
Doha
09.2019 - 08.2021
- Facilitated round-the-clock support for Ooredoo’s managed services customers.
- Conducted real-time log monitoring in Security Operations Centre across various devices.
- Reviewed incidents assigned by L1 Analysts and communicated with customers.
- Performed threat hunting based on indicators of compromise from diverse threat feeds.
- Aggregated, correlated, and analyzed log data using LogRhythm and Splunk.
- Developed and tuned custom cases, dashboards, searches, and reports on SIEM platform.
- Identified suspicious events in SIEM and escalated incidents with detailed analyses.
- Prepared daily, monthly, and weekly SOC reports to ensure operational transparency.
Level 1 NOC Analyst
Intertec Systems LLC
09.2014 - 08.2019
- Provide SOC support on 24x7 for client Majid Al Futtaim.
- Creating cases for the true positive incident and escalate to clients.
- Monitoring database logs & raise cases for suspicious login failures, DB shut down activities, critical Commands execution etc.
- Monitoring AV logs & raising case for malware infections.
- Monitoring Windows logs & raising cases for login failures & lockouts based on defined thresholds.
- Analyzing suspicious emails and providing approval for deletion.
- Hardening Firewalls with AV, URL Filtering and Network access control.
- Web Filtering, URL Whitelisting and access control modifications in Firewalls and Proxy.
- Validating suspicious URL’s sent by Helpdesk and approve for Whitelisting.
Technical Support Engineer
Wipro InfoTech
12.2012 - 07.2014
- 24/7 NOC Monitoring Using LogRhythm and Solarwinds tools.
- Administrating clients Network Security devices such as Firewalls, AV and Proxy.
- Creating new Security policies as per the client requirement.
- Baselining Security devices such as Firewalls and switches.
- Implementing new VPN requests, access requests raised by Helpdesk.
- URL Filtering, Allow/Block suspicious links in Proxy.
- Email Security Management using Mimecast, Trend Micro.
- Monitoring Network failures, Hardware failures and escalate to Vendor timely.
- Knowledge of Networking protocols and technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, firewalls, routers, etc.
- Knowledge of Office 365 Products.
- Windows server Administration and management.
- Windows patching and SCCM Management.
- Cisco VOIP devices management.
Education
Computer Science
Directorate of Technical Education
Morning Star College05-2010
Skills
- SIEM management
- Vulnerability assessment
- Team collaboration
- Log analysis
- Threat analysis
- Cloud security
- Endpoint protection
- Intrusion detection
- Threat intelligence
- Network protection
Certification
- CompTIA CySA+
- CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)
- CCNA Collaboration
Languages
- English
- Malayalam
- Tamil
Hobbies and Interests
- Reading
- Surfing internet for gaining latest information & technologies
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above information is true of my knowledge.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/25/90
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Information Security Skillset
SIEM Management , Network Detection & Response , Security Operations , Technical Support
Timeline
Sr. Security Analyst
LinkShadow DMCC
01.2023 - Current
SOC Engineer- Level 2
Meeza QSTP
08.2021 - 12.2023
SOC Analyst
Inspired Network Solutions
09.2019 - 08.2021
Level 1 NOC Analyst
Intertec Systems LLC
09.2014 - 08.2019
Technical Support Engineer
Wipro InfoTech
12.2012 - 07.2014
Computer Science
Directorate of Technical Education
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