MERUVA VENKATARAMANA

EMAIL: meruvavenkataramana338@gmail.com
MOBILE:
cpr100 8985309725

Objective:
Obtain a challenging and rewarding position as a SOC Analyst with organization that
recognizes my true potential and provides me sufficient avenues for professional and
personal growth through nurturing my technical skills.

 Demonstrated experience for more than 4.9 years as a Security Analyst working in
information technology with areas involving wide range of Network Security devices
SIEM, IDS/IPS, EPP, WAF, Firewall, DDOS mitigation, tools and services industry.
 Having strong business development.
 Having hands on experience in network security, endpoint security, SIEM
technologies, incidence response, phishing analysis, Incident response, use case
implementation, guideline creation & reviewing and also familiar with web
technologies

Work History:
Company: SoftwareOne
Role: Security Analyst
Duration: April 2021-September 2021

 Worked on technologies Trend Micro, cyber Ark, Cloud Security and Microsoft Azure.
 Monitoring, analyze and investigating the incident on regular basis in M365 followed
by suspicious true positive alerts.
 Analysing and investigating the true positive/false positive alerts.
 Monitoring user signing activities in Microsoft Azure.
 Monitoring the DLP and Email and web logs and NIS Malware, Spam mails &
investigate and escalate to the L2 and closing the incidents.
 Creating the tickets in ticketing tool and updating the trackers once they are
resolved.
 Worked on AXA GSOC (Global Security Operations Centre) is one of the largest SOC in
the world.
 Following up continuous procedures and processes of Investigating Suspicious
Activities, Packet Analysis and correlation.
 Project mainly focuses on various sites of security like Intrusion Prevention System,
Security information and Event management, Vulnerability management, Content
filtering. The project also involves DDOS mitigation at perimeter.
 Analyzing Phishing and Spam related activities

Company: Paladion Networks Pvt Ltd

Role: Information Security Analyst
Duration: December-2017 to March- 2021

 Monitoring 24x7 for P1, P2, P3 alerts in SOC operations for real-time monitoring and
analyzing logs from various security/Industrial appliances by using QRadar.
 Filling the Daily health checklist. Create, Modify and Update Security Information
Event Management (SIEM) Tools.
 Creating Dashboard on QRadar to analyze the Data.
 Creation of metrics and support KPI’s, Dashboard, Trackers and Analyzing daily,
weekly and monthly reports on DLP incident metrics update and close.
 Escalation of incidents that are determined to meet a threshold for greater
investigation and review the DLP logs and close.
 Carrying out log monitoring and incident analysis for various devices such as
Firewalls, IDS, IPS, database, web servers and so forth.
 Strong capabilities in Microsoft products like Office’s Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
 Working knowledge on TCP/IP model and co-relating with real-life scenarios Good
communication and collaboration skills.
 Good understanding of ITIL processes, including Change Management, Incident
Management and Problem Management Preferred.
 Create, modify and tune the SIEM rules to adjust the specifications of alerts and
incidents.
 Work with the customer designated personnel to provide continual correlation rule
tuning, incident classification and prioritization recommendations.
 Report query adjustments, and various other SIEM configuration activities.
 Assist customers to fully optimize the SIEM system capabilities as well as the audit
and logging features of the event log sources.
 Work closely with the assigned Managed Services SIEM resources to ensure client's
customized solution is functioning optimally and continuously tuned to the client's
needs.
 Resolve problems related to Network, Device, Policy, connectivity issues etc.
 SIEM: Responsible for monitoring and event analysis in Qrader, Splunk Attack
identification, deep investigation of potential attack and compromised system
(firewall, IPS, Proxy, Antivirus and end System).
 IDS/IPS: Monitored events, Log Analysis, verifying SNORT rule in packet analysis,
responded to incidents, reported findings of Blacklisting/Whitelisting of IP’s.
 EPP: Checking the Computer status and risk logs for client on regular basis.
 DDOS Mitigation: Monitor the Network level traffic, profiling over the network
traffic and establishing base value and threshold values.
 Responsible for providing appropriate remediation solution to prevent attacks
before they can helps the client in Use case reviewing and providing feedback
accordingly.

Technical Skills/Key Skills:

 SOC (Security Operation Center)
 SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) Tool: Splunk, IBM QRadar,
Antivirus: McAfee, Trend Micro, Symantec.
 Application Security - Web Security, Email security O365.
 Phishing Email Analysis, Carbon Black & (USB and Print Logs from Digital Garden)
Email Logs from Force point)
 Vulnerability Assessment (Qualys Gaurd & Nessus)
 Phishing Email Analysis, Spam Mails, Check point.
 Perform Cyber and Technical Threat Analyses.
 All networking protocols (Primarily TCP/IP) Internet/Network Security skills -
firewalls, VPN, (IDS, IPS, Cisco firepower ) proxies, etc.
 OS and network system administration skills and concepts around network
configuration, segmentation, firewall.
 Anti-Virus, Network Access Control, Encryption, Information Security: Vulnerability
Assessment.

ROLE: Network Admin (Dec 2016 – NOV 2017)

 Maintained communication networks, monitored network performance, and
resolved any technical issues.
 Collaborated with colleagues on the improvement of network infrastructure in order
to increase quality, reliability, affectivity, and reduce expenses.
 Installed and configured network devices, including routers, modems, hubs, switches,
wirelesses’.
 Performed backups of all servers and provided support and assistance trousers.
 Completed troubleshooting, tested networks, and performed other duties as
required.

Education:
 B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from K.S.R.M College of Engineering in 2010,
Kadapa.
 Intermediate in M.P.C from New Vikram Jr College in 2006, Kadapa.
 SSC in S.P.B.V.D Sabha High School in 2004, Upparapalli Village – Kadapa District

Declaration:
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true.

Venkataramana Meruva