Alaguparvathi Radhakrishnan
Fremont,CA
Summary
Highly motivated professional with 10 years IT experience in different streams like SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Risk Assessment, Risk Analysis, PCI Compliance, SOAR automation, Cloud Logging & IT infrastructure. 5 Years of Project & Program Management Experience managing budget, risks, issues, stakeholder management, onsite/offshore communication, client management.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cybersecurity Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - Current
- Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, risk assessment, mapping requirements & finalizing specifications
- Developing plans & schedules, undertaking budgeting, resource allocations, manpower deployment, and team meetings for individual projects using Agile methodologies
- Handling team management activities including training, development & mentoring the team
- Complete ownership of project resource plan, budgeting, proposal preparation, and SOW negotiation with client leadership
- Sharing project reports and SLA KPI metrics to the Senior Management
- No SLA slippage and received 100% Customer Satisfaction Survey
- Develop strong relationships with key vendors in your space and serve as a central point of contact for contract onboarding processes involving procurement/PMO
- Mentoring/Prepping the team for peak season activities and proactively enabling all security alerts to avoid attacks
- Manage team member performance, assigning goals, delegating leadership opportunities, quality checks, task tracking, attendance tracking, timely feedback, and the HR performance management process
- Participated and provided evidence for the in-house cyber security auditing program to detect flaws and weaknesses
- Managed relationships with third-party vendors for risk analysis and compliance
- Authored security incident reports, highlighting breaches, vulnerabilities, and remedial measures.
- Created cybersecurity best practice communications to educate staff against known threats and potential vectors of attack
Information Security Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2015 - 06.2017
- Design and Built SOC- Security Operation Centre at overseas locations
- Migrated the customer from existing security solution to the new TCS-Olympus Datacenter
- Responsible for End-to-End operation and implementation of security controls from security tower
- Deployed/Implemented the following proposed tools in the Client environment, as per the contract/SOW
- Built SOC setup for round-the-clock service
- Involved in Administration, Configuration, Planning, Maintenance, Upgradation, Migration, rapid identification of problems and issues, providing fast troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Excellent logical skills for understanding and developing system workflows and well suited for communicating with both Technical and Functional professionals
- Creating and scheduling Vulnerability scans
- Handled Phishing cases and was involved in Phishing site detection and Initiated the take-down of the phishing site through our service provider to take down the fraudulent
- Creation of Process Documents, SIEM workflow documents and other reference technical materials supporting production activities
Triage Specialist
Wipro Technologies
02.2013 - 07.2015
- Reviewed the information and logs from various systems on a day-to-day basis like firewalls, IDS/IPS devices, Windows Servers, and Database Logs
- Providing support for device integration and maintenance
- Recognize attacks based on their signature and differentiate false positives from true intrusion attempts
- Analysis of various attacks such as SQL injection, Port Scanning, etc., and their impact on client infrastructure using IDS & Firewall Logs
- Create Alerts in Splunk to notify any abnormalities observed in SIEM as log sources stopped, unusual increase in log count for a specific device
- Creating daily reports based on the customer needs
- Follow-up with L2 and L3 teams for triage event closure
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT01.2023
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Anna University
Chennai, India04.2012
Skills
- Cybersecurity Project Management
- Leadership
- Mitigation Strategies
- Continuous Improvement
- Risk Analysis & Vulnerability Management
- Process Improvement Initiatives
- Incident Response Management
- Customer Satisfaction & Communication
- Mentoring & Coaching
- Project Delivery
- Managing Security Breaches
- Financial Literacy
Certification
· ISACA CISM May'22
· EC Council CEH May'22
· EC Council CHFI May'22
· EC Council ECIH Jan'21
· AWS Cloud Practitioner Oct'20
Tools Handled
Splunk, Exabeam, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Crowdstrike, Tanium, JIRA, ServiceNow, Remedy, Proofpoint, McAfee, Symantec, Netskope, Carbon Black, Nessus, Threat Grid, O365, Nexpose, Cisco Iornport, One Note
Timeline
Cybersecurity Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - Current
Information Security Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2015 - 06.2017
Triage Specialist
Wipro Technologies
02.2013 - 07.2015
Master of Science - Cybersecurity And Information Assurance
Western Governors University
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Anna University