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Yatin Vasisht

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Seattle,WA

Summary

Experienced Cyber Security Engineer with a strong networking background. Skilled in CyberSecurity, Product Security, Security Architecture, Cloud Security,Routing, Firewalls and Network Security. Enthusiastic learner, information technology professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Information Technology. 

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Staff Cybersecurity Engineer

Costco
Issaquah, Washington
05.2023 - Current
  • Working on Endpoint Security Team
  • Leading Cyberark EPM agent deployment for application control at Costco
  • Deployed CyberArk Agents to 100k endpoints, configured application control including international locations
  • Leading migration of Tanium Console from on-prem to cloud environment
  • Worked on Cortex XDR for Detection and Respsonse
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive cybersecurity policies and procedures.
  • Collaborated with SOC and IR to fine tune alerts
  • Optimized XDR configurations to provide maximum protection without inhibiting productivity or performance.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and threat landscape through ongoing research and professional development activities.
  • Conducted regular audits of IT infrastructure to ensure adherence to established cybersecurity policies and best practices.

Senior Information Security Engineer

Salesforce
11.2021 - 04.2023

Working as a Senior Security Engineer


  • Worked as an Endpoint Security Engineer
  • Leading migration of Tanium Console from on-prem to cloud environment
  • Managing Tanium and implementing controls using Tanium
  • Working with different teams to make sure WAF's/Firewalls and other devices are ready for migration
  • Working closely with Incident Response and Detection team to help them tune detections on Crowdstrike
  • Collaborating with IR and Detection team for log ingestion in Splunk
  • Crowdstrike deployment on Endpoints - on-prem or in-cloud
  • Deployed Tanium and Crowdstrike on more than a 1M endpoints
  • Working closely with different security teams and creating an intakes to improve logging and security posture
  • Working closely with different BU's to gather requirements and work cross-functionally to make sure we deliver the sensors according to requirements
  • Using GitHub, Terraform to maintain internal infrastructure
  • Managing our SG's/WAF rules etc using our pipelines according to company standards
  • Configuring logging for AWS for notifications and alerts on security instances/devices.
  • Working on day-to-day KTLO items
  • Working on Proofpoint for Email Security

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Endpoint Engineering

Visa Inc
05.2020 - 11.2021
  • Working as a Endpoint Engineer at Visa
  • Helping with Detection and Response across all OS - MAC, Windows and Linux
  • Creating Endpoint Detections using Tanium, Carbon Black, Windows Defender, Windows and MAC Firewall and other endpoint tools
  • Suppressing alerts and tuning detections, based on alerts and requirements
  • POC for Endpoint EDR solutions - Crowdstrike, Windows Defender
  • POC's - Tested different scenario's and chose the best tool for our environment based on multiple factors
  • Deployed Phishing tool for MAC and Windows
  • Enhancing the Detections on Mac OS, using Tanium and other native solutions
  • Creating Detections which feed into Splunk and Qradar for the Incident Response team
  • Capturing processes and working on real-time problems to make sure endpoints are secure and users have connectivity
  • Work closely with Client Engineering to maintain security standard for the OS's images
  • Day-to-day also include, tickets/incidents handling and maintaining health and detections on the tools

Senior Information Security Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
02.2017 - 05.2020
  • Lead Security Design and Architecture Engineer/Analyst
  • Lead Cyber Security Engineer
  • Architected Security posture for AWS Security
  • Deployed and executed different policies and controls to improve Enterprise Security posture
  • Senior Investigator SIRT
  • Created templates and policies for IPS/IDS and Network Security products that are followed for any deployment
  • Managing Security aspect of 140+ sites - Helped standardize IPS deployment throughout those sites
  • SME for Network Security related technologies - SIEM, Palo Alto's, Cisco ASA's, NAC, VPN etc.
  • Completed SANS - Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis and IR training and won the Forensics challenge
  • Implemented Security Features Enterprise-wide - DNS Sinkhole, IPS, Anti-malware/Anti-Spyware, IPS, Application layer security etc.
  • Developed process for SIEM Alerts and triaging those alerts
  • Architect Security posture for AWS Security
  • Deploying NAC solution in our environment - ForeScout
  • Carbon Black alerts triaging and blocking
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS and other networking concepts

<p>Network Engineer (Security)</p>

University of Colorado Health
07.2016 - 02.2017

<p>Consulting Engineer ( Security)</p> <p></p>

Advanced Network Management
10.2015 - 06.2016

<p> Associate Network Engineer (Security Team)</p>

Aricent Technologies (Cisco TAC)
06.2013 - 12.2015

<p>Network Administrator</p> <p></p>

Magadi Metallon Trading Corporation
04.2012 - 06.2013

Education

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Colorado Technical University, MS - Information Technology
04.2015 - 06.2016

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Maharshi Dayanand University, B.Tech - Electronics and Instrumentation 
07.2008 - 06.2012

Certification

PCNSE

Timeline

Staff Cybersecurity Engineer

Costco
05.2023 - Current

Senior Information Security Engineer

Salesforce
11.2021 - 04.2023

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Endpoint Engineering

Visa Inc
05.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Information Security Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
02.2017 - 05.2020

<p>Network Engineer (Security)</p>

University of Colorado Health
07.2016 - 02.2017

<p>Consulting Engineer ( Security)</p> <p></p>

Advanced Network Management
10.2015 - 06.2016

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Colorado Technical University, MS - Information Technology
04.2015 - 06.2016

<p> Associate Network Engineer (Security Team)</p>

Aricent Technologies (Cisco TAC)
06.2013 - 12.2015

<p>Network Administrator</p> <p></p>

Magadi Metallon Trading Corporation
04.2012 - 06.2013

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Maharshi Dayanand University, B.Tech - Electronics and Instrumentation 
07.2008 - 06.2012
Yatin VasishtSenior Cybersecurity Engineer