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Venkatakrishnan Sowrirajan

Venkatakrishnan Sowrirajan

Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Summary

Cyber Security professional with 9+ years of progressive experience across a broad range of security solutions across multiple Cyber Security domains. Proven ability to combine technical knowledge and business acumen where I can use my knowledge, skills, expertise, and past experiences to significantly contribute to the growth of business and success of the organization and at the same time expand my learning and skills to become a trusted security advisor.
Given an opportunity I would be an asset for the organization by being an integral part of the system and create a recognition for myself.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Solution Architect

Paramount Computer Systems
Dubai, UAE
01.2022 - Current


  • Customer facing role that includes Solution design, Product presentation.
  • Deliver tailored technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept to showcase product capabilities to ensure technical win.
  • Catering sales team with presales meeting, trainings and demo.
  • Understanding Customer requirement, Create custom presentation, demos and respond to RFPs.
  • Responsible for creating BOM, Prepared Request for Information(RFI), Request for Proposal(RFP) for customers.
  • Develop strong personal relationship with the Security team in customer organization.
  • Keep up with new technologies, evaluate, and onboard new vendors into the company portfolio.
  • Provide training and enablement sessions to internal sales teams and customers.

Technical Support Engineer III

Forcepoint India
Chennai, India
04.2017 - 01.2022


  • Assisted Sales team to close the POC by providing support and assisting in use case configuration.
  • Worked on Azure Cloud where DLP products were deployed.
  • DLP and Discovery Policy fine tuning.
  • Worked on all DLP components available – Fingerprinting, Protector, Web DLP, Endpoint, Email Gateway.
  • Worked closely with Engineering\Dev team to address the customer issue and provided fix.
  • Provide upgrade plans/Procedure and assisted during Upgrades.
  • Assisted in HLD for new Customer in deploying the products in their environments.
  • Assisted customer with initial deploy and configuration on CASB.
  • Resolved issue on CASB with related to Policy configuration and deployment.
  • Handled CASB assets like Gsuite , O365, Sharepoint, dropbox.

Senior Analyst

HCL Technologies
Chennai, India
06.2015 - 04.2017
  • Proxy – MacAfee Web Gateway:
    Monitoring the appliance status, Log handling and Troubleshooting URL access issues.
    Creating the rule sets for allow or block websites and configuring proxy polices based on the requirement.
    Upgrading the Web Gateway appliances.
  • Antivirus – McAfee ePO:
    McAfee EPO compliance and Worked on issues with DAT, Agent and VSE
    Supported rigorously on virus outbreak on communication with end users.
  • Firewalls – Cisco ASA:
    ACL creation for allow and deny TCP/UDP.
    Troubleshooting the Firewall related issue and AnyConnect/VPN related issues.
  • IPS: McAfee IPS:
    Monitoring the traffic flow over the IPS and controlling the same with the signatures.
    Configuring the new IPS sensor, joining it to the NSM and Creating the new NSM, and clustering all the Domains to the NSM.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Mookambigai College of Engineering
India
08.2010 - 04.2014

Skills

  • Web Security - Forcepoint, McAfee & Skyhigh
  • Email Security - Forcepoint, Checkpoint and Proofpoint
  • DLP and CASB - Forcepoint, Skyhigh
  • HSM, Encryption - Thales, Utimaco
  • Secrets Management - Thales (aKeyless)
  • DAM - Imperva
  • Firewall - Cisco
  • IPS - McAfee


Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Tamil
Native
Malayalam
Intermediate

Accomplishments

    Awarded as Customer's Choice for 2022 - PCS.

    Awarded as Forcepoint ONE Maverick for 2023 - PCS\Forcepoint

Certification

Certified Forcepoint Partner Presales Engineer

Certified Thales Luna HSM Engineer.

Fortanix Certified Administrator

Timeline

Solution Architect

Paramount Computer Systems
01.2022 - Current

Technical Support Engineer III

Forcepoint India
04.2017 - 01.2022

Senior Analyst

HCL Technologies
06.2015 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Mookambigai College of Engineering
08.2010 - 04.2014

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