Rahul Rai
Toronto,ON
Summary
Organized and highly motivated Cyber security professional with broad base experience in Network and security. Certified CompTIA Security+, Palo-alto network (PSCNSE) and Network+. Successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Experienced in troubleshooting, monitoring, and securing network architecture. Seeking for a challenging and rewarding career in Cloud and Cyber Security to contribute knowledge and technical skills for growth and development of the organization.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Security Analyst
CDW
04.2021 - Current
- Monitored and resolved first-level support requests across all managed technologies
- Escalated second-level support to senior team members
- Carried out initial triaging, first-level analysis, and resolution of Security incidents across supported platforms
- Performed console upgrade and backup for clients on Q-radar console
- Provided training to the new hires and performed the onboarding process
- Monitored and managed request and incident queues and provides response and resolution within Service Level Agreement and Service level objective metrics parameters
- Initiated real-time incident response on affected endpoints by running approved scripts to remove indicators of attack
- 24 by 7 monitoring of up times on all managed platforms and perform daily health checks on managed SIEM infrastructure
- Carried out on-demand vulnerability management scans based on clients' requests
- Carried out Rapid IOC searches based on given IOC obtained from threat intelligence feeds across clients' SIEM infrastructure and Endpoint detection and response platforms
- Opened technical support cases with respective vendors where applicable.
Network Technician
CompuCom
10.2020 - 02.2021
- Administered software licensing and purchasing for effective installation of the network
- Upgraded network software and hardware for optimized performance
- Reviewed logs for all networking devices for unresolved abnormalities and problems
- Deployed, configured, and installed wireless controllers, routers, and switches and firewalls
- Secured infrastructure by enforcing network security policies, creating virtual LANs
- Managed services and implemented multifactor authentication (MFA/TFA) method on servers and endpoint devices to access the application securely.
Network Security Analyst
Orient Technologies
07.2016 - 08.2018
- Coordinated with third-party security information and event management (SIEM) providers to maintain protections and predict threats
- Recommended improvements in security systems and procedures
- Oversaw adherence to security policies, compliance, and standards on 100+ end-point devices
- Promptly responded to IT security incidents and co-ordinate mitigation/resolution
- Deployed and configured end-point protection software application on laptops, desktops, and servers
- Worked closely with the security operations center team to analyze and investigate unusual activities and system alerts using IDS and IPS
- Performed vulnerability assessment using Nessus, Qualys, created reports, and mitigated identified vulnerabilities
- Monitored the network and systems for potential security risk alert or unauthorized access.
Education
Post-Degree Certificate - Information Systems Security
Durham College
Oshawa, ON06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer and Information Systems
ARMIET
Mumbai, Maharashtra05.2016
Skills
- TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP SMTP, routing protocols, NAT etc
- Incident management, IAM vulnerability management
- Data backup and recovery systems
- Knowledge of Cloud computing platforms AWS, Azure, GCP
- Familiarity with amazon services like EC2, VPC, CloudWatch, Load balancer's, S3 etc
- Knowledge of Compliance and regulatory PCI-DSS, HIPPA, ISO, GDPR, etc
- DDoS attack, MITRE attack framework, DNS attack, social engineering attack
- Antivirus and spam blocking
- VPN configurations
- Network device monitoring
- Network Troubleshooting
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong troubleshooting and problem skills
Certification
- 02/01/16, CCNA
- 05/01/20, CompTIA Network+
- 11/01/20, CompTIA A+
- 01/01/21, CompTIA Security+
- 03/01/21, PCNSE
- 06/01/21, IBM-Q-radar Professional Analyst
- 11/01/22, CCSA
- LogRhythm Administration, Cortex-XDR (Micro-credentials Certificate)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Software And Tools
- PowerShell, Bash, Scripting languages, MySQL, basic python
- Firewalls, NIDS/NIPS, and HIDS/NIDS, WAF, Proxy servers
- Symantec end-point protection, Net-protector anti-virus
- SIEM (IBM Q-radar, LogRhythm, Exa-beam, Sumo Logic) and Splunk Crowd-strike, Cortex XDR
- Wireshark, Nmap, Nexpose, Nessus, Tanium
- GitHub, Docker, Chef, Ansible, CI/CD
- Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Red-hat, CentOS), SELinux
- Windows Server, Active Directory, Group policies
- Palo Alto Network Firewall, Checkpoint firewall, Cisco ASA
Personal Information
Title: Cyber Security Professional
Languages
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Russian
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary
Arabic
Elementary
Timeline
Security Analyst
CDW
04.2021 - Current
Network Technician
CompuCom
10.2020 - 02.2021
Network Security Analyst
Orient Technologies
07.2016 - 08.2018
Post-Degree Certificate - Information Systems Security
Durham College
Bachelor of Science - Computer and Information Systems
ARMIET
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