Tejal Guttal
University Park,PA
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Instructor’s Assistant- Cyber Forensics, Overview of Information Security Management
Pennsylvania State University - College of Information Sciences and Technology
01.2024 - Current
- Led weekly lectures on real-world security research topics and updated courses with new vulnerability remediation strategies
- Led labs on security threats, focusing on packet analysis, IDS/IPS, anomaly detection, and threat modelling
- Mentored students individually, providing technical guidance on cybersecurity practical labs, improving overall class grade by 20%
General Member
University Park
08.2023 - 12.2024
- Delivered cybersecurity awareness training to high school students, educating them on cyber threats and promoting diversity in tech
Team Member
University Park
05.2024 - 07.2024
- Collaborated to build a java-based web app that addressed specific OWASP 10 vulnerabilities, like SQLi, XSS, and CSRF attacks
- Incorporated privilege access management including least privilege and role-based access to improve API security posture
- Implemented advanced authentication mechanisms as OAuth 2.0 & JWT tokens to ensure secure and scalable access for APIs
Team Lead
University Park
02.2024 - 04.2024
- Configured and integrated routers, switches, and firewalls with wazuh and shuffle for incident response in an IoT environment
- Utilised Splunk for security monitoring, incident handling and strengthening insider threat detection across endpoint security
Fund Raising Volunteer
University Park
02.2024 - 03.2024
- Managed a 30-person team to plan and execute a large-scale event, ensuring participant safety and satisfaction, resulting in 100% positive feedback and successful event completion
Secure API Developer
Mphasis
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Engineered back-end systems to develop RESTful APIs using Spring Boot Framework, leveraging java, microservices, and CRUD operations, earning 95% positive feedback from team members
- Crafted and executed detailed JUnit test cases incorporating secure coding practices and performed code reviews with seniors
- Worked with cross functional team to manage Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and implemented WAF policies and traffic filtering
- Implemented an automation tooling to hit all endpoints 24/7 alongside generating reports, cutting off manual execution
- Configured Splunk for automated monitoring and performed data analysis using SQL queries, enhancing security and incident handling by identifying trends and correlations in system logs to detect insider threats
- Utilized PCF cloud services to deploy web applications and manage infrastructure, ensuring scalability and high availability
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams using agile methodologies on business continuity planning and assisted with weekly security audits
Education
M.S - Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology
University Park, PA05.2025
B.S - Electronics and Communication Engineering
The PES University, College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India05.2021
Skills
- Metasploit framework
- Mitre Attack Framework
- Nmap
- Wireshark
- Burp suite
- Flare-VM tool kit
- Splunk
- Nessus
- Wazuh
- Tableau
- PowerShell
- Virus Total
- MATLAB
- Office 365
- Excel
- Fortinet Firewall
- SIEM
- IDS/IPS
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- CRUD Operations
- RESTful Web Services
- Agile
- Junit
- Java Microservices
- Function Testing
- Automation Testing
- Regression Testing
- Log Monitoring
- GitHub
- Web Application Security
- OKTA
- Secure Development Life Cycle
- DevSecOps
- Data Loss Prevention
- Vulnerability mgmt
- EDR
- Cassandra Database Management
- Encryption
- Kali Linux
- Buffer Overflow Exploit
- Active Directory
- Incident Response and Threat Hunting
- Java
- C
- C
- Python
- Bash
- Shell Scripting
- HTML
- SQL
- MySQL
- Scala
Certification
- EJPT (Junior Penetration Tester)
- ISc(2) Certified in Cybersecurity
- Certified Application Pen Tester IT
Additional Organizations
- CHAARG
- Women in IST
- Gamma Tau Phi
- Nittany Data Labs
- VALLEY Magazine
Student Experience
- Secure API Development with Spring Security, University Park, PA, Team Member, 05/24 - 07/24, Collaborated to build a java-based web app that addressed specific OWASP 10 vulnerabilities, like SQLi, XSS, and CSRF attacks., Incorporated privilege access management including least privilege and role-based access to improve API security posture., Implemented advanced authentication mechanisms as OAuth 2.0 & JWT tokens to ensure secure and scalable access for APIs.
- SOC Home Automation Lab, University Park, PA, Team Lead, 02/24 - 04/24, Configured and integrated routers, switches, and firewalls with wazuh and shuffle for incident response in an IoT environment., Utilised Splunk for security monitoring, incident handling and strengthening insider threat detection across endpoint security.
- Penn State THON, University Park, PA, Fund Raising Volunteer, 02/24 - 03/24, Managed a 30-person team to plan and execute a large-scale event, ensuring participant safety and satisfaction, resulting in 100% positive feedback and successful event completion.
- Association for Women in Computing, University Park, PA, General Member, 08/23 - 12/24, Delivered cybersecurity awareness training to high school students, educating them on cyber threats and promoting diversity in tech.
Timeline
Team Member
University Park
05.2024 - 07.2024
Team Lead
University Park
02.2024 - 04.2024
Fund Raising Volunteer
University Park
02.2024 - 03.2024
Instructor’s Assistant- Cyber Forensics, Overview of Information Security Management
Pennsylvania State University - College of Information Sciences and Technology
01.2024 - Current
General Member
University Park
08.2023 - 12.2024
Secure API Developer
Mphasis
06.2021 - 06.2023
- EJPT (Junior Penetration Tester)
- ISc(2) Certified in Cybersecurity
- Certified Application Pen Tester IT
M.S - Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
The Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology
B.S - Electronics and Communication Engineering
The PES University, College of Engineering
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