Balasubramanian (Bala) Kathavarayan

A career oriented professional with exceptional communication, strong attention to detail, and critical thinking
skills. Driven to further develop and build upon prior experience and education to launch an extended and
successful career in cybersecurity

• Scope: Built Wide Area Network (WAN) for a bank branch including three LANs
• Identified ISP, designed layout for bandwidth, line quality, and hardware
• Built WAN utilizing VPN
• Utilized Cisco Packet Tracer 7.2.2
• Network Configuration
• Scope: Set up a corporate network and implement security settings for a new bank branch
• Devised network Topology plan and where to assign the IP address
• Built VLANs, trunks, and routers to allow multiple stream communication
• Arranged switches to communicate with portsecurity and routers to work with OSPF
• Configured network devices to prevent unauthorized access by securing privilege mode, encrypting passwords, anddesigning security messaging
• Conducted a successful connectivity test
• Network Security
• Scope: Act as a security analyst to protect company communication
• Set up 3 machines: client, host, and threat; established connection and engaged in communication through networkrequests and emails
• Imitate a threat to extract info and intercept traffic-utilizing Wireshark
• Configured firewall using pfSense
• Ethical Hacking
• Scope: Use Wireshark to track passwords
• Using Windows and Linux, lookup IP addresses
• Try to crack passwords by monitoring the flow of traffic

September/2013-Current Certified offender search (DOTS)-Department of Corrections Tracking System. Microsoft Teams-Workload Management/Tracking System EPIC-Patient Information System Frontier Bodging System-Access Control System Kronos-logged OT kept record of Unit on E-log wrote conduct and incident reports. Corrections Officer I/II-Field Training Officer. ACOMS-Alaska Corrections Offender Management System. APSIN-Alaska Public Safety Information Network.

• Built a Windows Server Virtual Machine Scope: Utilized virtualization software to create a virtual machine. Loaded operating system (Windows Server 2019) and performed basic setup; encrypt username and password. Ran a test and set up the network. Looked up the IP address and ping virtual machine to ensure a connection was established. Installation of WAN Scope: Built Wide Area Network (WAN) for a bank branch including three LANs. Identified ISP, designed layout for bandwidth, line quality, and hardware Built WAN utilizing VPN. Utilized Cisco Packet Tracer 7.2.2. Network Configuration Scope: Set up a corporate network and implement security settings for a new bank branch. Devised network Topology plan and where to assign the IP address. Built VLANs, trunks, and routers to allow multiple stream communication. Arranged switches to communicate with port security and routers to work with OSPF. Configured network devices to prevent unauthorized access by securing privilege mode, encrypting passwords, and designing security messaging. Conducted a successful connectivity test. Network Security Scope: Act as a security analyst to protect company communication Set up 3 machines: client, host, and threat; established connection and engaged in communication through network requests and emails. Imitate a threat to extract info and intercept traffic-utilizing Wireshark. Configured firewall using pfSense Ethical Hacking Scope: Use Wireshark to track passwords. Using Windows and Linux, lookup IP addresses. Try to crack passwords by monitoring the flow of traffic