Mourya Kuchipudi
Little Elm,Texas
Summary
Seeking a challenging role in Cyber Security, specializing in Security Monitoring and Analysis, incident response, Vulnerability assessment. Targeting Positions in Texas (US).
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Digital Forensics Analyst
TIAA Global Capabilities
01.2021 - Current
- Roles & Responsibilities: Skilled in various security technologies including Splunk(SIEM), QRadar (SIEM), Firewalls, IDS/IPS (Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System), ESA (Email Security Appliance), Nexpose, Palo Alto, FireEye, Security Analytics, CrowdStrike, and Public Speaking
- Knowledge on IAM suit with tools like Sail Point, Okta, CyberArk
- Contributed to SOAR Tool - Tines onboarding, designing automation workflows with SOLO team members for improved incident response efficiency
- Drill down investigation of security incident by analyzing logs from multiple logs sources which includes but not limited to Web Gateway, Firewalls, Mail Gateway, WAF, End Point Protection (Anti-Virus), IPS, IDS, Active Directory, Load Balancer, Operating System
- Experience in SQL, LDAP, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD methodologies
- Worked on Akamai Incidents related to network and DDos, Data Protection tool incidents (Imperva), Asset Management tool (TFS), security and data integrity tool like file changes (Tripwire), PAM alerts
- Reporting outages and escalating issues to ensure timely resolution
- Worked on various alerts provided by Threat Intelligence - Recorded Future, Phish Labs, Domain Tools
- Collaborating with vulnerability and solo teams to fine-tune operations
- Provided support, guidance, for variety of Cybersecurity initiatives/ alerts to team
- Utilizing Apache, Python Scripts to identify intrusions and mitigating them
- Creation of Security operation documents, control plan, run book, knowledge base and SOPs
- Leading Information Security team at TIAA, highlighting proficiency in overseeing Security Monitoring and Operations with excellence
- Acknowledged for comprehensive understanding of security principles, cyber threats, threat vectors, and managing security incidents effectively
- Proficient in managing security incidents, resolving SIEM dashboard challenges, and ensuring security of client networks
- Recent achievements include leading development of automated IP blocking dashboard, resulting in gold award in 2023
- Verifying and resolving issues related to anomalous activity alerts from SIQ(Sail Point) and other user entity behavior (UEBA) platforms through escalations or exceptions
- Integration experience in Security technologies with SIEM - CASB, PAM, EDR, UEBA and rules creation and analysis of alerts from various consoles
- Developed, distributed and run anti-phishing campaigns and run data analytics and provided training for awareness
- Worked as part of an Offshore Security Operations Center (SOC) team, responsible for monitoring SOC events, detecting & preventing intrusion attempts
- Firsthand experience with Windows/Unix Security Logs, as well as logs from IDS/IPS, Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems, Cisco ASA, Next-Generation Firewalls, Anti-Virus/Malware solutions, and Active Directory Integration
- Created use cases guides and workflows and given some automation ideas on procedures (experience of Confluence workspace), for this work I have received bronze award
- Manage training and development activities for team.
Security Analyst
City Union Bank
08.2019 - 09.2020
- Roles & Responsibilities: Conducted real-time monitoring, investigation, and analysis of security events
- Reviewed and improved alert conditions to minimize false alarms
- Experience with SAI 360 GRC platform
- Conducting security gap analysis to assess compliance with laws, and industry standards
- Result-oriented, which inspires to deliver high-quality work and follow deadlines and SLA
- Collaborated with the SOC team to detect and prevent intrusion attempts
- Documented security incidents and maintained ticket quality
- Troubleshot SIEM dashboard issues to ensure seamless operations
- Conducted regular security awareness training sessions for employees, resulting in the decrease in successful phishing attempts within the organization
- Analyzing phishing emails and trend reports and taking remediation actions and coordinating with cyber awareness team to improve cyber awareness and user behavior
- Presenting the monthly reports to respective stakeholder
- Creation of Security operation documents, control plan, run book, knowledge base SOPs
- Working on Security Advisory received from various sources and taking the action accordingly
- Analyzing the use cases present on SIEM and sharing the fine-tuning suggestion to admin team
- Analyzing the logs of various devices to detect anomalies, mis-configuration.
Education
MBA -
SSIM
Hyderabad05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Avinash College Of Commerce
Hyderabad05.2016
Skills
- Crowd Strike (EDR)
- Splunk
- Symantec
- Palo Alto (NGFW)
- Dark Trace
- Cisco
- Azure AD
- AWS
- Linux
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Nexpose
- Recorded Future
- Tripwire
- Microsoft Defender
Certification
- CEH V10
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ 900
- TryHackMe (Multiple Certifications)
- CompTIA Cysa +
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above information is accurate and true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Senior Digital Forensics Analyst
TIAA Global Capabilities
01.2021 - Current
Security Analyst
City Union Bank
08.2019 - 09.2020
MBA -
SSIM
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Avinash College Of Commerce